Dear colleagues,
Welcome back! The Islamic Studies Workshop is happy to announce our schedule for the Winter quarter:
January 17 Al-Farābī and the Ontology Within Language | Rosabel Pauline Ansari (Georgetown, PhD)
January 31 Freeing the Kadi’s Justice: Max Weber and Methodology in Islamic Legal Historiography | Amir Toft (NELC, PhD)
February 15* Salafi Ruqya in England: The Role of Evidence in the Ethical Formation of the Pious Self | Nick Lorenz (Divinity MA):
March 7* Islamic Thought Among Others: The Confucian Ethics of Wang Daiyu | Timothy Gutmann (Divinity PhD)
March 14 Prophetic Eloquence as Legal Precedent: Linguistic Attitudes and Ideologies in Hadith | Tynan Kelly (NELC PhD)
Please note that we have changed the date and location of our bi-weekly meetings for the Winter and Spring quarters. We will be meeting on Thursdays 2-3:30 in room S400 at the Divinity School (exceptions being dates marked *).
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Best,
Zahra Moeini & Allison Kanner
ISW co-coordinators 2018-19