Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:00pm to 5:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Stop by CMES Rm 102 to support HMECA (Harvard Middle East Cultural Association), score some cheap books ($1-$5), and reconnect with CMES students and faculty at the HMECA Book Sale! Light snacks will be served. All books have been generously donated by …
From the organizers: We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Islamic Finance Conference (IFC) tickets are now LIVE! This conference will take place on October 25-26th at Harvard University. Please note that this is a change from the previously announced dates. This year, the conference proudly marks its 27th anniversary, continuing its tradition of uniting Harvard faculty, …
Venue: Austin Hall; 101 Classroom – East “Jonathan Berry (Managing Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC) will discuss the relationship between faith, our work as lawyers, and the character and substance of the law.” For more details, please see here.
From the Weatherhead Center: Visiting Scholars The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs accepts six to ten visiting faculty members each academic year through the Weatherhead Scholars Program. Visiting faculty must hold tenured or tenure-track positions at another institution, from which they will be on leave during the time that they are at Harvard. The application …
Location: S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Sponsors: Southeast Asia Initiative, Harvard Asia Center Mahmood Kooria, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK “Millions of Muslims from Mozambique to Indonesia historically followed a social system in which women held significant influence over family, community, and broader cultural traditions. Beginning in the …
Date: Friday, November 8, 2024, 2:30pm to 4:30pm Location: Lamont B30 Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Libraries present: Research Methods in Islamic Studies Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies Program: 2:30-2:45 Emily Coolidge-Toker (Lamont) 2:45-3:00 Kristine Greive (Houghton) 3:00-3:15 Cem Tecimer (SHARIAsource) 3:15-3:30 COFFEE BREAK 3:30-3:45 Matthew Smith (Persian collection) 3:45:4:30 Joanne Bloom & Amanda Steinberg (Fine Arts …
On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST, Professor Ali Rod Khadem (Suffolk University) will present “Islamic Apocalyptic Jurisprudence: End-Times Law in Sunnī and Shīʿī Discourses” (Islamic Law and Society 31 (3), 2024). This talk explores theories of the final legal system that will govern humanity in the End Times, as envisioned in the apocalyptic …
“The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents a virtual seminar with Dr. Houda Abadi, Eldridge Adolfo, Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, and Mark Muller Stuart (KC). The speakers will introduce a new dimension to contemporary peacebuilding using an innovative to establishing commonalities between international norms and the Islamic principles of peacebuilding, approach …
On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST, Dr. Bahman Khodadadi (Harvard Law School) will present On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran (Oxford University Press, 2024). This talk explores the roots and structures of the criminal law system of the world’s most prominent constitutional theocracy, the Shīʿī theocracy. While discussing …
Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue Moratoriums on Islamic Criminal Punishments: Legal Debates and Current Practices The Journal of Islamic Law invites papers that explore both theoretical discussions and practical applications concerning the ḥudūd, penalties that Muslim jurists consider to be divinely ordained punishments. With the establishment of modern Islamic states and …
