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Position opening: Tenure-Track Harvard Professor in the History of Modern Africa, Harvard University

September 19, 2022

The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention than it has hitherto received. … Continue reading International Conference: Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus, Leiden University, September 12-14, 2022