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AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

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

AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

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

AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

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Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto), The Rule of Recognition and the Consolidation of the Maliki Madhhab in the Fourteenth Century. Please RSVP here. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar

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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...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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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...

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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.

Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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.

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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 .

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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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...

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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...

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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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...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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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...