This workshop gathers scholars who are interested in the myriad recent critiques of secularism spanning a variety of academic fields: history, political science, anthropology, comparative literature, etc. Our aim is to discuss the various motives...
Registration requested. Already during the first two centuries of Islam Muslim ascetics-mystics (Sufis) used Qur'anic recitation as a means to extract its exoteric, allegorical senses. This exoteric reading of the Scripture would often result in...
Speakers include: * Tuna Artun (Rutgers) * Nahyan Fancy (DePauw) * Paula Findlen (Stanford) * Noah Gardiner (U South Carolina) * Harun Kucuk (University of Pennsylvania) * Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U South Carolina) * Robert Morrison...
Ticket required. About Discover the Qalam (Arabic wooden pen) and let it take you on a journey to learn how to write in Eastern Kufic Calligraphy on Manuscripts together with well-established calligrapher Vahid Jazayeri with...
Lecture led by Noah Salomon.
Speaker Enass Khansa is a Harvard AKPIA Associate; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University; The Santiago Cathedral Project (Spain) Website.
Event website. Dr. Ibrahim Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, and What Is a Madrasa?
Islamophobia is most commonly understood to be a problem that impacts adversely on Muslim minorities living in Western countries. The growing literature on Islamophobia has contributed to this understanding by focusing on the role of...
Event website. The number of mosques in Denmark is rising steadily. The number has increased by almost 50 per cent since 2006 and many things indicate that quite substantial changes have taken place in the...
The aim of the international conference Translators, copyists and interpreters: Jews, Christians and Muslims and the transmission of the Bible in Arabic in the Middle Ages is to foster an international and interdisciplinary cooperation on...