Islamic Studies Lecture Series: Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "Preserving, Democratizing, and Studying the World Heritage of Islamic Manuscripts: The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition"
Lecture led by Kamran Bokhari.
The established understanding dominated by academic studies on Islamic culture and civilization rests on the assumption that Islamic thought had lost its productivity from the middle ages onwards. As a result of this perspective, it...
Dr. Omid Safi, Director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center, will examine the spiritual depths of Islam, the misguided association of Islam to terrorism, and the pitfalls of xenophobia. Omid Safi is the Director of...
Robert A. Destro is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at The Catholic university of America, and is the director and founder of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion. He joined...
Lecture by Dr. Peter Mandaville Reflecting on his three years working at the State Department during the Obama administration, Dr. Mandaville will discuss the complex and at times contradictory approaches to Islam and Muslims that...
Dr. Farid Hafez, Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project This talk discusses the emergence of Islamophobia in Europe and the USA and its specific role in party politics. It discusses the announcement and introduction of Trump's...
Fondazione Giorgio Cini invites submissions for an international conference on “Transnational Sufism in Contemporary Societies,” to be held on San Giorgio Island, Venice, on the 9th – 11th November 2017, organised by Francesco Piraino (Scuola...
Intensive Courses Intensive Course on Arabic Papyrology Princeton, New Jersey (USA) August 21-25, 2017 Thanks to a number of generous grants from the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project, the Near Eastern Studies Department at...
Approach the concept, phenomenon and practice of Islamophobia from a number of different angles through a speaker panel. Panel speakers include: Hanadi Doleh, Program Director at Park51 Tahera Ahmad, Director of Interfaith Engagement, Northwestern University...