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Talk: “Matriarchal Islam: Gendering Sharia in the Early Modern Indian Ocean” with Mahmood Kooria, Harvard University, November 4, 2024 @ 6:00 – 7:30pm

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 …

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EUME Berliner Seminar: “Conflicting Legacies of the 1858 Ottoman Land Law: A View from Palestine” by Munir Fakher Eldin, November 6, 2024, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Conflicting Legacies of the 1858 Ottoman Land Law: A View from Palestine Munir Fakher Eldin (Birzeit University / EUME Fellow 2009/10 and 2024/25), Chair: Nazan Maksudyan (Centre Marc Bloch / EUME Fellow 2009/10) Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin Further information will follow soon. Pleaser register in advance via eume(at)trafo-berlin.de. Depending on approval by the …

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Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies, Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, November 8, 2024 @ 2:30 – 4:30 pm

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 …

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Panel: “The Legacies of Anti-colonial Struggle in Algeria: A Panel Honoring the Life and Activism of Elaine Mokhtefi,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 8, 2024 @ 3:00 pm

“Where: 10383 Bunche Hall When: Friday, November 8, 2024 / 12:00 PM Born in New York City, Elaine Mokhtefi has been an anti-racist and anticolonial activist since the early 1950s. She spent the years 1962-1974 in Algeria, where she worked as a journalist and a functionary in Algeria’s first post-independence government. Her deep engagement with the National Liberation …

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Islamic Law Speaker Series: “Islamic Apocalyptic Jurisprudence: End-Times Law in Sunnī and Shīʿī Discourses” by Ali Rod Khadem, Program in Islamic Law, November 12, 2024 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

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 …

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