AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

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...

Garrett Davidson (The College of Charleston), The Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission. Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom platform; to register...

Amy Singer (Brandeis University), Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town.

Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), The Rediscovery of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of the Hebrew Bible. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Shady Nasser (Harvard University), Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame), Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Devin Stewart (Emory University), Behnam Sadeghi (Oxford University), François...

Robert Gleave (University of Exeter), Early Shiite Law and the Construction of the Shari'a. Co-sponsored by the Law and Religion Lecture Series (The Committee on Study of Religion, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on...

Felicitas Opwis (Georgetown University), Al-Ghazāli and the Epistemology of Legal Analysis (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law.

Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries.