AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

Sean Anthony (Ohio State University), The Ummah and the Arabs: Ethnicity and Ideology under the Umayyads. Please RSVP here.

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...

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...

Lara Harb (Princeton University), Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

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...

Carl Sharif El-Tobgui (Brandeis University), Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register.

Omid Safi (Duke University), Rumi’s Ancestors on the Path of Radical Love (Mazhab-e ‘Eshq ): Ahmad al-Ghazali and al-Kharaqani. Co-sponsored with the Alwaleed Islamic Seminar Series, the MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, and the Aga Khan Fund...

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...

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...

Ahmed al-Rahim (University of Virginia), Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire. Co-sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. This...