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 […]

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 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 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. […]

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: […]

The Islamic Studies Workshop is once again up and running for the 2017-2018 academic year, and we invite all interested faculty and graduate students to present.  Presentations can include portions of dissertation chapters or proposals, job talks, master’s theses, conference presentations, or other research.  We aim for half of all our workshop presenters to be University of Chicago graduate students.  The pre-circulation […]