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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join us on Wednesday, October 24th at Islamic Studies Workshop, 12:30-1:30pm in Swift 201. We will be hearing from Zach Winters (NELC) on his paper “Messianism and Revolt in 15th-Century Iran: The Musha’sha’id Order in al-Mu’ālī’s Khunkār-nāma.” Please e-mail Allison Kanner (akanner@uchicago.edu) if you would like a copy of the pre-circulated paper. […]