Dear colleagues, I hope this message finds you in good health and good spirits with the quarter now underway. It’s my pleasure to release to you at this time the fall schedule for the Islamic Studies Workshop.   Fall Quarter – Islamic Studies Workshop (all virtual)   Nov. 5th, 4-5:30pm CST Alexa Herlands (History): “Refuting […]

Dear Colleagues,  I hope this note finds you well as we begin an unusual quarter. Given that many of our participants are internationally located, and that all of us are undertaking various forms of labor in this challenging time, the Islamic Studies Workshop has decided to postpone our planned meetings for the Spring until next […]

Dear Colleagues, Please see below for our winter schedule. We will be meeting in Swift 400 from 2-3:30pm on alternate Thursdays. Papers will be circulated a week before the workshop.  Refreshments will be served – hope to see you there! Jan 16 – Welcome back social  Jan 30 – Lunch with Lauren Osborne (Assistant Professor […]

Dear colleagues, Welcome back to a new academic year! Please join us for our first event of the year – a discussion with Professor Yousef Casewit on the PhD program in Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago. We will meet next Thursday, October 10th from 2-3:30pm in Swift 400. We are also looking forward […]

Dear Colleagues, The Islamic Studies Workshop welcomes paper proposals for the 2019-20 academic year. Presentations can include portions of dissertation chapters or proposals, job talks, master’s theses, conference presentations, or other research, and we especially welcome work-in-progress. In the past, we have hosted scholars from Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, History of Science, History of Christianity […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join us at Islamic Studies workshop for our remaining events of the quarter. All events will be held in Swift 106 from 2-3:30pm with (light) refreshments! 4/25 – Sam Lasman (CompLit): Demonic Pasts: (other)World History in Medieval Iran 5/9 – Ameena Yovan (NELC): The Khawārij in the Caliphate of ‘Alī: Developing Ideologies […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join us next Thursday, March 7th from 2:00-3:30pm in Swift 400 at Islamic Studies Workshop for a talk with Timothy Gutmann. Timothy will be presenting on his paper titled: Islamic Thought Among Others The Confucian Ethics of Wang Daiyu Abstract: In this paper, I will consider how the Muslim thinker Wang Daiyu […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join us this Friday, February 15th from 2-3:30pm at Islamic Studies Workshop for a discussion with Nick Lorenz (Divinity) on his paper titled: Salafi Ruqya in England: The Role of Evidence in the Ethical Formation of the Pious Self Abstract: In this paper, I analyze a series of British Salafi preachers’ YouTube […]

Dear colleagues, Please join us on Thursday, January 31st for a presentation by Amir Toft (NELC PhD) on “Freeing the Kadi’s Justice: Max Weber and Methodology in Islamic Legal Studies”. Description: In this paper, I rethink Weber’s Kadi-justice, ignoring its substantive merit as a statement about Islamic legal practice and returning it to its original context of his […]

Please join us at Islamic Studies Workshop next Thursday, January 17th from 2-3:30 in Swift 400 for discussion with Rosabel Pauline Ansari (Georgetown) on her paper titled: Al-Farābī and the Ontology Within Language Description: This workshop will focus on a draft section of one of my dissertation chapters. My dissertation is on the genesis of tashkīk al-wujūd (“the ambiguity […]