Spring 2019 Schedule

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 […]

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Amir Toft: Freeing the Kadi’s Justice: Max Weber and Methodology in Islamic Legal Studies

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 […]

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Rachel Schine on Breast-Feeding & Hero-Making in Popular Arabic Literature

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 […]

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Eman Elshaikh: On Arabic Without Arabs and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

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 […]

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ISW: PhD Application Preparation with Dr. Yousef Casewit

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 […]

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Islamic Studies Workshop Fall 2018

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: […]

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2017 Presentations

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.

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