Event: IFESDC 2025 Date: May 21–22, 2025 Venue: World Bank HQ, Washington, D.C. Theme: Eradicating Poverty and Enhancing Prosperity for Sustainable Development Keynote: Prof. Dr. Nasaruddin Umar, Minister of Religious Affairs of Indonesia Topic: “The Role of Faith in Development” Registration link (free + meals included): https://imaamcenter.org/ifesdc_2025 ⸻ Session 3: Islamic Finance, Zakat, and Economic …
June 20, 2025 Chair: Randi Deguilhem , CNRS, TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille U., France “ Waqfs, women and circles of power ” Ana Maria Carballeira Debasa , Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA), CSIC, Granada, Spain: “ Habous in the circles of power in al-Andalus ” Nozhat Ahmadi , University of Isfahan, Iran, “ Waqfs of the Women of the Safavid Court ” Mohammadreza Neyestani , TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille University, …
From the organizers: Dear friends and colleagues, We hope you can join us for this important upcoming symposium organised by the Digital British Islam research team. Please register as soon as possible as places are very limited. The details are as follows: Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion Symposium Wednesday 25th June Coventry University …
From the organizers: Dear friends and colleagues, I would like to invite you to the workshop “From Classical ML to AI in Arabic and Islamic Studies” that we are organizing at Hamburg University: Workshop Title: From Classical ML to AI in Arabic and Islamic Studies: A Hands-On Workshop Dates: July 1-4, 2025 Location: University of …
Summer Language Intensive Program 2025 Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies (Kuyucu Murad Pasha Madrasa, Vezneciler/Fatih) Join the Summer Language Intensive Program at Istanbul University and enhance your academic research skills in Modern Turkish and Ottoman Turkish. This program is ideal for MA and PhD students in the fields of history, literature, and Islamic studies. …
Omar Abdel Ghaffar (PhD candidate, HMES/JD’25) will join us to share a chapter titled “Canonizing Assent: Legal Canons in Action in late Medieval Jerusalem” on September 22nd. Saaleh Baseer (PhD candidate, HMES) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer for more …
From the organizers: “Dismantling the Family Unit”: Clerics and Cohabitation in Contemporary Iran 202 Jones Hall, Princeton University Sep 29, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm Intimate partner relationships are an affective site of neoliberalism, constantly transforming to fit the exigencies of the moment. Individuals uniquely adapt marriage expectations and practices within and beyond normative …
Date and Time: Thursday, October 9 at 4:30pm Location: The Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), The Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) Knafel Building Speaker: Adam Baczko (Research Associate Professor, CNRS, SciencesPo) Talk Title: “The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law” Discussant: Thomas Barfield, Ph.D. (Professor of Anthropology, Boston University)
TUE 14 OCT 2025 | 12.30-1.30p US EST | Zoom Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology (Harvard University Press) Dr. Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) will present “The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology,” a chapter from his forthcoming book, Islamic Legal …
Prof. Houssem Chachia (Visiting Professor, NELC) will join us to share a paper titled “The Conquest of Tunis (1535): Memory, Defeat, and Celebration Across Cultures” on October 20th. Professor Jessica Marglin (Visiting Professor, NELC) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer …
