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.

Dear colleagues, Please join the Islamic Studies Workshop for our session this Thursday: Thursday, May 12th   Swift Hall room 106   Dr. Asma Sayeed (UCLA), “Dating Women’s Hadith and Deciphering Early Muslim Social History” A vegetarian lunch will be served. For more information, including past events, please visit our website. Hope to see you there!

Dear colleagues, Please join the Islamic Studies Workshop for our session this Thursday, co-sponsored by the Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions: Thursday, May 5th Swift Hall room 106 Alexandra Matthews (Divinity School), “Ineffability and the Transmission of Knowledge in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan and Plato’s Seventh Letter” A vegetarian lunch will be provided. For […]

Dear colleagues, Please join the Islamic Studies Workshop for our session on Thursday: Thursday, April 28th   Swift Hall room 106   Dr. Noah Salomon (Carleton College), “Escaping the Islamic State: Reflections on Sudan at a Crossroads” Abstract: “Can the problems that the political ideal of the Islamic state raises be transcended, either in terms […]

Dear colleagues, Please join us this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for a groundbreaking interdisciplinary conference on Islam and Regimes of Evidence. The description and program is copied below; for more information, you can visit the conference website or the page for the Facebook event. Hope to see you there! ***** How can we think of evidence […]

Please join the Islamic Studies Workshop this Thursday: Thursday, April 21st, 12:00pm-1:30pm Swift Hall room 106 Allison Kanner (Divinity School), “Self-Made Mystics: Autobiographies of al-Ghazali and Ibn Tufayl” A vegetarian lunch will be provided. Hope to see you there!

Please join the Islamic Studies Workshop for our first session of the spring quarter:   Thursday, April 14th, 12:00pm-1:30pm Swift Hall room 106 Lindsey Conklin (Comparative Human Development), “Marriage in Jordan: The Middle Class, Islamic Law & Traditional Marriage”   A vegetarian lunch will be provided.

Dear colleagues,   Welcome to another exciting quarter of the Islamic Studies Workshop!  Unless otherwise indicated, we will be meeting from12:00pm-1:30pm in Swift Hall room 106.   For more information, including past events, please visit the Islamic Studies Workshop website.   Thursday, April 14th: Lindsey Conklin (Comparative Human Development), “Marriage in Jordan: The Middle Class, Islamic […]

Join us for the last session of the Islamic Studies Workshop this quarter, and stay tuned for an exciting spring lineup! March 1st (Tuesday), 4:30pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center room 152 Jessica Mutter (NELC), “Evolving Depictions of Religious Transformation in Eighth-Century Greater Syria,” co-sponsored with the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium  

Dear colleagues, Please join us for Thursday’s workshop session: Rachel Farell (CMES): “E’tibar nist: Shi’i Ritual Expression in Contemporary Afghanistan” Thursday, February 11th, 12:00pm-1:30pm Swift Hall room 106 A vegetarian lunch will be provided. For more information, including past events, please visit the Islamic Studies Workshop website.   Hope to see you there! Francesca Chubb-Confer Graduate Student Coordinator