The Islamic Studies Workshop is pleased to announce our fall lineup! Workshop sessions will take place on alternate Thursdays from 12:00pm-1:30pm in Swift Hall room 201. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, including past events, and to view our call for papers, please visit the Islamic Studies Workshop website.
October 8th: Professor Michael Sells, “Thinking toward PhD Applications in Islamic Studies.” This discussion is primarily geared toward 1st and 2nd year MA students, but all are welcome.
October 22: Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed (Divinity School), “The Mystical and the Rational Paths: Miʿrāj of the Rational Soul in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī”
November 5th: Pascal Held (NELC), “ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī’s Theory on the Origin of the Term ‘ṣūfī’”
November 19th: Nathaniel Miller (NELC), “Hudhayl: The Conversion of a Tribe” (co-sponsored with the Middle East History and Theory Workshop
December 3rd: Antonio Musto, “The zuhd of Wakī‘ ibn al-Jarrāḥ”
We look forward to a quarter of lively discussions!