AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

Pamela Klasova (The University of Chicago), The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, 694-714 . Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern...

Han Hsien Liew ( Arizona State University), Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought. Cosponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Peter Adamson (University of Munich), What’s Truth Got to Do With It? Logic as (Mere) Instrument in Philosophy of the Islamic World. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; please RSVP here .

Mariam Sheibani ( Brandeis University), An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law. Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Rosabel Ansari ( Stony Brook University), Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk. Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Riccardo Paredi ( Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano/ NYU Abu Dhabi), Editing Early Sufism: From Manuscript Discovery to Digital Corpus . Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Mahindra Humanities...

Houssem Eddine Chachia (Shawwaf Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University), Ambassadors of a Lost Homeland: The Diplomacy of Survival in the Andalusian–Morisco Experience (Thirteenth...

David Freidenreich (Colby College), Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for the Study of World Religions. Please...

Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College), A Merchant of Knowledge at the Court of Bayezid II. Please RSVP here.

Amina Elbendary (American University in Cairo; Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program...