AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

2023 Oct 05

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102
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, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies
2023 Apr 11

In the Shadow of the Prophet: a conversation with Roy Mottahedeh

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102
Roy Mottahedeh (Gurney Research Professor of History, Harvard University) discusses his new book In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History (Oneworld, 2023) with Khaled El-Rouayheb (James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History) and Cemal Kafadar (Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies). Co-sponsored... Read more about In the Shadow of the Prophet: a conversation with Roy Mottahedeh
2022 Nov 10

Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S354, 1737 Cambridge Street
Shiraz Hajiani (AISP Postdoctoral Fellow), Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyāmat-i buzurg): Examining a Rare Subaltern Nizari Ismaili Shi'i Treatise from the Twelfth Century. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
2022 Apr 29

A Medieval Life in Modern Circumstances

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel room K262 (the Bowie-Vernon Room)
A book talk on Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland by author William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee for... Read more about A Medieval Life in Modern Circumstances
2022 Mar 24

Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Zoom presentation
Suleiman Mourad (Smith College), Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Many Legacies: Sunnī Revivalist, Jihād Advocate, and Syrian “Nationalist”. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies
2021 Apr 22

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

11:00am to 1:00pm

Location: 

Zoom presentation
Digital Resources and Manuscript Collections of the Islamicate World, a workshop with the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library featuring presentations by Columba Stewart (Executive Director), Catherine Walsh (Director of Cataloging), Joshua Mugler (Curator of Islamic Manuscripts), David Calabro (Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts), Daniel Gullo (Director of the Malta Study Center), Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor (Catalogers of West African Manuscripts), and Celeste Gianni (Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts). Co-sponsored with the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program. This... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
2020 Nov 19

Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Workshops

10:30am to 1:00pm

Location: 

Zoom presentation
Harvard's Islamic Collection in and beyond Cambridge: an introduction to rare music from the Islamicate World in the Loeb Music Library, the Islamic world in the collections of I Tatti and the Berenson Library, and the Byzantine and Islamic collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Presentations by Joseph Kinzer (Loeb Music Library), Michael Rocke (Biblioteca Berenson), Spyros Koulouris (Villa i Tatti), Giovanni Pagliarulo (Biblioteca Berenson), Joshua Robinson (Dumbarton Oaks), and Stephanie Caruso (Dumbarton Oaks), Betsy Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks),... Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Workshops
2020 Dec 01

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Virtual presentation
Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge), Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies, the Department of History, and the Harvard Law School Program in Islamic Law. This presentation will take place on the Zoom platform; to register, please click... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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