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 […]

Dear colleagues,  – Please join us next Wednesday for our last Fall session at 12:30-1:20 (Swift 201). We are excited to have with us Rachel Schine (NELC) who will discuss: Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Arabic Popular Literature Abstract This essay examines the role of nursing experiences in the formation of popular heroes in Arabic literature of the medieval period, with a […]

Please join us today at Islamic Studies workshop for a presentation and discussion with our Zahra Moeini Meybodi on her paper entitled: “The Qur’an is as the Qur’an Says: The Shī’ī Imams on the Nature of the Qur’an.” – We will meet from 12:30-1:30pm in Swift 201 – do note this meeting is pushed up a week […]

Join us on November 7th – Eman Elshaikh will be presenting on her paper: “Arabic without Arabs: Golden Chronotopes, Purist Language Ideologies, and the Voice of the ‘Ummah in the Discourses of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf”. Her discussant will be Alexis Chavez (Anthropology). We will meet 12:30-1:20 in Swift 201. Abstract: This paper uses semiotic anthropological […]

Dear colleagues, Please join us as we begin our Fall quarter schedule of events at the Islamic Studies Workshop today at 12:30-1:20 in Swift 201! Our upcoming session will be devoted to those interested in applying to the Divinity School’s PhD program in Islamic Studies. We will have with us Professor Yousef Casewit to help shed light on the application process, for both […]

Dear colleagues, Welcome back! Please join us at Islamic Studies Workshop this quarter for our exciting schedule of events. We will be meeting on alternate Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30pm in Swift 201. Our schedule is as follows- Oct. 10th: Preparing for PhD applications, discussion with Professor Yousef Casewit  – Oct. 24th: Zach Winters (NELC) – Messianism and Revolt in 15th-Century Iran: […]

Zahra Moeini Meybodi (Divinity), “Avicenna and The Poetics: On the Principles of Poetry.” – Allison Kanner (Divinity), “But Was Ḥāfeẓ a Sufi?: Jāmī’s Biographies of the Persian Poets” Francesca Chubb-Confer (Divinity) will be responding. To enrich discussion, please read the paper (attached) in advance of the workshop.