ISW Closed for 2022-2023

  Dear all, The Islamic Studies Workshop/Study Group will be closed as of Fall Quarter 2022. If you are a graduate student or faculty member at University of Chicago, interested in using our site and listserv to re-start a working group under this name, please email aherlands@uchicago.edu In the meantime, we especially recommend the discussions […]

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Friday April 15 10am

This Friday at 10am the Islamic Studies Workshop will welcome Ibrahim Khan to discuss his paper, Rethinking Indian Muslim Nationalism: Husain Ahmad Madani’s Composite Nationalism as Anti-Colonialism Madani (1) Zoom Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94161478444?pwd=Nk9WSWlGbElEZ2FKT1ZQVXhYTEVaQT09 Password: islam

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April 8 2022 Islamic Studies Events

  On Friday, April 8th, the Islamic Studies Workshop will be a part of two important events: Kristina Richardson and the Sin Language of the Banu Sasan 9:30 am CST with the Lexicon Group: Zoom:  https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/97819495431?pwd=QTZIenlpM1lpUC8rY3JmOGVTWmRLdz09 Password: embodiment Recommended background readings: Richardson-Chapter-2-Sin-Language-Banu-Sasan-Ghuraba Richardson-Chapter-6 1:00 pm Allison Kanner Botan on Layli and Majnun with the Medieval Studies Workshop […]

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Raza Naeem THURS MARCH 10 9AM

Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi at 150 (1872 – 1944)   Please join us this Thursday March 10 at 9am for a talk by Raza Naeem entitled Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi at 150 (1872 – 1944): The Anticolonial Maulana Who Saw Socialism as Guarantor of Peoples’ Welfare Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/95482462641?pwd=aGhwVDNKSjlYMTllQ2dkN1NHZkIxUT09   Password: islam

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Zeynep Tezer 2.18 11am CST via Zoom

We will meet to discuss Zeynep Tezer of the History Department’s “Feudal Cavalrymen, Raider Lords, and Other Disgruntled Soldiers: Political and Social Critique among the Members of the Ottoman Military: Administrative Establishment during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” with discussant Betül Kaya.   Zoom Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91386931005?pwd=UEVtZTNzS0k0azVNR092V3JBejBTQT09   Paper attached.  Tezer_ISW_Paper   Email aherlands@uchicago.edu for Zoom […]

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Winter 2022 Schedule

Dear all,   The Islamic Studies Workshop will hold the following meetings in the coming weeks. We are still accepting papers for SPRING 2022   Friday, February 18, 11am via Zoom: Zeynep Tezer Feudal Cavalrymen, Raider Lords, and Other Disgruntled Soldiers: Political and Social Critique among the Members of the Ottoman Military: Administrative Establishment during […]

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Islamic Studies Workshop Wed 12.1 1pmCST

Dear all, Please join us tomorrow for our final Islamic Studies workshop meeting of the quarter: Manpreet Kaur’s “Sufis in the Sikh Archive” at 1pm CST. Short paper attached, presentation to follow. Zoom link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/93094770641?pwd=UXd2OWVpbGdJdWp2NmZkbnZ1MmhSZz09 password: islam We look forward to a great conversation! All best, AlexaSufis in the Sikh Archive_MK

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