The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with Cambridge University Library, the University of Cambridge's HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation—announces its thirteenth annual Cambridge-based Introduction to Islamic Codicology course, which will be held from 23 to 27 September 2019. This intensive five-day course will introduce the study of …
This summer school is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who have an interest in handwritten materials, editing, and the tradition of editing in the Muslim world. It offers theoretical lectures as well as hands-on practice with samples from the world-famous collections of the Leiden University Library. Over the course of two weeks, specialists from Leiden …
This summer course is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to apply digital technology in their research. It includes both theoretical and practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data annotation, search, and visualization. Limited to 20 …
The Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, sponsored by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH), is designed to provide advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will learn about approaching and …
Designed specifically for students interested in Islamic law, this program brings together a group of specialists in different areas of the law to explore new ways of thinking about Islamic law. Some important themes of the program include: bridging the divide between theory and practice, the question of modernity, and the role of Islamic law …
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 …
