Constructing the ‘Public Intellectual’ in the Premodern World A two-day conference co-hosted by the Genealogies of Knowledge project, the Division of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. 5th-6th September 2019 | Chancellors Hotel, Manchester
Negotiation in Conquest: wars, treaties and recollections of the rise of the caliphate Date Thursday 12 September 2019 - Saturday 14 September 2019 Location Gravensteen Pieterskerkhof 6 2311 SR Leiden Room 0.11 The great conquests of the seventh and eight centuries brought under Arab-Muslim control an area that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the …
20th Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy The Georgetown University's Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the University of Denver's Center for Middle East Studies, and the Center for Global Policy are hosting a conference entitled "Democracy and Good Governance in Muslim-Majority Countries: Lessons from the Last 20 Years." Featuring Keynote Speaker Carl Gershman, …
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University invites you to attend the following event: "Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism," a presentation and talk by Dr. Mohammad Hassan Khalil. Event For well over a decade, the so-called New Atheists have had a unique and ostensibly significant impact on Western (and to some extent …
Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds Sep 19 – Sep 21 | Harvard Divinity School Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University. Scholarship on globalization of Islamic Africa has been focused either on merely describing (if not …
Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought Author: Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts at Amherst Sep 19 | 4:15 – 5:30p | Allison Dining Hall (5th Fl.), Taubman Hall, Harvard Kennedy School Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program.
Sep 24 | 4.00-6.00p | Austin 102 The Program for Islamic Law welcomes students, faculty, and staff back for the new year. Come learn about the program, meet others with similar interests, and more. Refreshments will be served.
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding invites you to attend the following event: "Being Muslim: Women of Color in American Islam," a presentation and book talk by Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik. Event In this lecture, Professor Sylvia Chan-Malik will focus on the lives, subjectivities, and labors of U.S. Muslim women as a means to understand Islam’s …
Seminar: History and Economics Constructing the Index of Arabs - Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore Sep 25 | 4.30pm | CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Center for History and Economics.
Seminar: Gender and the Curriculum in the Islamic Studies Classroom Kecia Ali, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University Sep 26 | 4.00 – 5.30pm | Location TBD Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program.
