A two-day symposium on Arabic literature of the pre-nahda Ottoman era (1516-1789), featuring a keynote address by Hilary Kilpatrick (Independent Scholar) and presentations by Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge University), Ghayde Ghraowi (Yale University), Theodore Beers (University of Chicago), Rachida Chih (EHESS-CNRS, Paris), Hakan Özkan (University of Münster), Ozzy Gündüz (Harvard University), and Alev Masarwa (University of Münster). Sponsored by the Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Prince...

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Nathanael Aschenbrenner (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Universal Monarchy Between Sultan and Pope: Reorienting Constantinople in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean and Siren Çelik (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult; response by Dimiter Angelov (Harvard University). Research supported by grant number 41600623 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a collaboration between the Byzantine Studies Research Center at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies... Read more about Center for Middle Eastern Studies Postdoctoral Lectures

Siren Çelik (Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow, CMES), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult. Read more about Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture

A talk by William Granara (Harvard) on his new book Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World... Read more about Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Book Launch

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 Déroche (Collège de France), Alba Fedeli (University of Hamburg), Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge University), and Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School). Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Harvard Law School's Program in Islamic Law, and the Center for... Read more about The Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship

Samuel England (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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Ahead of Time: Exploring the Relationship Between Ancient and Modern Armenian Studies, a panel discussion featuring presentations by Christina Maranci (Tufts University), David Zakarian (Pembroke College, Oxford University), Marie-Aude Baronian (University of Michigan), and Sylvia Alajaji (Franklin & Marshall College). Co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

Christina Maranci (Tufts University), How to Read Armenian (Art). This lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program, supported by the Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund.

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Brian Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder), Kingdoms of Faith: Writing a New History of Islamic Spain. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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Ahmet T. Karamustafa (University of Maryland), Situating Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia and the Balkans (14th and 15th centuries).

A symposium celebrating the career of William Graham, Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; featuring presentations by Ali Asani, Diana Eck, Mohsen Goudarzi, Elizabeth Lee-Hood, Tarek Masoud, Jane McAuliffe, Roy Mottahedeh, Shady Nasser, Ahmed Ragab, Walid Saleh, and Guy Stroumsa. Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and... Read more about Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Historian and the City Between Ibn Khaldun and al-Maqrizi. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series