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SUMMARY:Talk: “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Lyall Armstrong\, Alwaleed Bin Talal Director’s Series\, Harvard Law School\, Lewis 214\, November 27\, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 27\, 2023 at 12pm EST for a talk titled “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Professor Lyall Armstrong. \nAbstract: Q 2:230 stipulates that if a man divorces his wife three times and then wants to marry her again\, she must have married and divorced another man in the intervening period in order for her to be legally licit for the previous husband. This lecture will explore the origins of this divorce ruling by evaluating its relationship to divorce and remarriage law in Late Antiquity and by analyzing the Islamic tradition purported to be the source for the ruling. The lecture will then investigate how early and medieval legal scholars approached the ruling in light of its canonization in the Qur’ān. This evaluation of Q 2:230 hopes to contribute to the expansion of our understanding of the origins and applications\, even in the modern period\, of Islamic law.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-three-strikes-and-shes-out-the-origins-and-expansion-of-a-divorce-and-remarriage-stipulation-in-q-2230-by-lyall-armstrong-alwaleed-bin-talal-directors-series-ha/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks,PIL events
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SUMMARY:Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab'” by Nasser Rabat\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 28\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Tuesday\, November 28\, 2023\, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture\,  MIT \nNasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.  His interests include Islamic architecture\, urban history\, heritage studies\, Arab history\, contemporary Islamic art\, and post-colonial criticism.  He teaches lecture courses on Islamic architecture\, the architecture of Cairo\, and Islamic architecture and the environment and seminars on Orientalism and colonialism; Issues in Islamic Urbanism; Historiography of Islamic Architecture; Late Antiquity and the foundation of Islamic architecture; Reading Ibn Khaldun; (Re)constructing Memory; Urbicide; and Balancing Globalism and Regionalism in the Arabian Gulf cities. \nProfessor Rabbat has published more than a hundred scholarly articles and several books on topics ranging from Mamluk architecture to Antique Syria\, 19th century Cairo\, Orientalism\, and urbicide.  His most recent books are Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (2022); ‘Imarat al-Mudun al-Mayyita (The Architecture of the Dead Cities) (2018)\, and an online book\, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS\, co-edited with Pamela Karimi (2016).  His co-edited book\, Construction as Destruction: The Case of Syria will be published in 2023 by AUC Press.  He is currently editing a book on the cultural history of Syria to be published by Edinburgh University Press.  His next book project is a history of Mamluk Cairo\, which is under contract with AUC Press. \nFor more information\, visit here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-the-khitat-of-al-maqrizi-narrating-history-on-the-tempo-of-kharab-by-nasser-rabat-cmes-harvard-university-november-28-2023/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks
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SUMMARY:Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 29\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Wednesday\, November 29\, 2023\, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present Samuel Dolbee\, Assistant Professor of History\, Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East\, Vanderbilt University \nSamuel Dolbee\, Assistant Professor\, Vanderbilt University\, is an environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East\, with interests in agriculture\, disease\, and science. He teaches courses in the Department of History and as part of the Climate Studies major. \nHis first book from Cambridge University Press is entitled Locusts of Power: Borders\, Empire\, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (June 2023). The book offers a new account of the end of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the states of Iraq\, Syria\, and Turkey grounded in the ecology of the Jazira region\, its mobile people\, and distinctive locusts. It unearths what borders meant in the lives of not only locusts but also Arab and Kurdish nomads\, Armenian deportees\, and Assyrian refugees. His next project is an environmental history of the microbe in the late Ottoman Empire. It is concerned at once with new treatments and spatial controls established against ailments like phylloxera\, rabies\, and rinderpest—which devastated the empire’s grape vines\, street dogs\, and cattle—as well as the way the language of germs infected the language of politics in the empire’s final years. \nDolbee’s scholarship has appeared in the American Historical Review\, Past & Present\, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes on the history of food and disease\, respectively. He is the editor in chief of Ottoman History Podcast. \nPrior to coming to Vanderbilt\, Dolbee was a lecturer on History & Literature at Harvard. He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale’s Program in Agrarian Studies\, Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center\, and Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Dolbee completed his PhD at New York University in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies\, and has an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in History and International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nFor more information\, visit here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-locusts-of-power-by-samuel-dolbee-cmes-harvard-university-november-29-2023/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks
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SUMMARY:Prize: Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law\, AALS\, November 30\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:The Section on Comparative Law invites Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law to recognize scholarly excellence in any subject of comparative law by an untenured scholar at an AALS Member School. \nThe Prize will be given to the author(s) of a scholarly article judged to have made an important contribution in the field of comparative law. This article must have been published in an academic journal between July 2022 and November 2023. The Prize was awarded for the first time at the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting. All untenured scholars-including but not limited to tenure-track professors\, visiting assistant professors\, lecturers\, academic fellows\, doctoral candidates-are eligible. \nNominations for the 2023 Tushnet Prize should be sent by email to Professor Elizabeth M. Iglesias\, iglesias@law.miami.edu\, Professor Timothy Webster\, timothy.webster@law.wne.edu; Professor Anna Conley\, anna.conley@mso.umt.edu\, and Professor Jonathan Hafted\, Jonathan.Hafetz@shu.edu  no later than November 30\, 2023. Nominations should include the full name\, institutional affiliation\, and contact information for the nominated scholar\, as well as a citation for the article. A PDF version of the published article would also be appreciated. Self-nominations are welcomed. \nAbout Mark Tushnet  \nMark Tushnet\, a former president of the Association of American Law Schools\, is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall\, Tushnet is an authoritative voice in constitutional law and theory. His scholarship spans all areas of public law\, including comparative constitutional law\, a field in which he has co-authored a leading casebook. A respected teacher\, a devoted mentor\, and an influential scholar\, he retired from the Harvard faculty in June 2020. \nFor all questions\, please contact Professor Elizabeth Iglesias [iglesias@law.miami.edu]\, Chair of the AALS Section on Comparative Law. And in the meantime\, have a restful and productive summer!
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/prize-nominations-for-the-mark-tushnet-prize-in-comparative-law-aals-november-30-2023-2/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Grants,Opportunities,prizes and nominations
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SUMMARY:Seminar: “Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language\, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology” by Nicholas Boylston\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\, Harvard University\, November 30\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, November 30\, 2023\, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD \n\n\n\n\nNicholas Boylston\, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations \nCo-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar\, Mahindra Humanities Center \nRSVP here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/seminar-ineffability-and-adequation-symmetries-between-ayn-al-qu%e1%b8%8dat-hamadanis-theory-of-language-ontology-and-mystical-epistemology-by-nicholas-boylston-prince/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: EMPIRE: In Theory and In Middle East History\, American University in Cairo\, December 1\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \n\n\n\nFor most of recorded history\, empires and imperial regimes have existed in one form or another and have shaped the lives of peoples of the Middle East. And yet the concept of Empire is o;en assumed to be clearly defined\, almost eternal\, even though empire took different shapes across history\, including the history of the Middle East. Furthermore\, current theories of empire tend to be Eurocentric and to focus on contemporary power structures in the post-colonial and post- modern period\, with less reference to historical empires. \nThis coming session of AUC’s Annual History Seminar aims to look more carefully at empire as a theoreIcal concept and its changing definiIons\, and how it shaped and was shaped by interacIons with peoples. How do these concepts apply to medieval\, early modern of modern empires? How do they apply to world empires that ruled the Middle East? \nWe invite abstracts of around 300 words in either English and Arabic for presentaIons that would revolve around the theories and concepts of Empire as they relate to different empires with parIcular interest in studies\, comparaIve or otherwise\, that relate to Middle East history. \nThe themes that the seminar aims to tackle include: \n–  What is Empire? Are there features that are common to all empires? Is Empire as a concept or category of analysis useful to studying the history of the Middle East? How can we classify empires? What forms of Empire can historians disInguish in the history of the Middle East? To what extent were tributary\, commercial or colonial empires different in their relaIons with their subject populaIons? \n–  Empire and Power: Where does imperial power lie; in the center\, in capital ciIes\, or is it more diffuse? Power within empires and the use of violence. How do empires control resources? Do power and agency lie squarely with certain elites? \n–  Empire and Time: How did empires change and transform over Ime? What influenced such changes? What role did technologies\, including military technologies\, play in such transformaIon? How do empires maintain longevity? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n–  Empire and Religion: Did empires impose religions? How did they make poliIcal use of Religion? \n–  Empire and Culture: Can we speak of imperial culture? How far did empires impose cultural change and to what extent were they themselves shaped by culture? \n–  Why Empire? What were the objecIves behind the formaIon of empires\, and the historical circumstances that allowed and shaped their development? \n–  Can Empires be compared? To what use? Many theories and studies of empire tend to be Euro-centric. Can they sIll shed light on historical experiences of empires based in the Middle East? \n–  Empire and PopulaIon/Demography: One criterion o;en used in defining empires is that they contain diverse populaIons of various backgrounds and ethniciIes that are o;en controlled by a dominant group. Does this offer an angle into studying Middle East empires? \nThe sessions of the seminar are scheduled for Friday 8 and Saturday 9 March\, 2024 at Oriental Hall\, Tahrir Square Campus of the American University in Cairo. ParIcipants should plan to speak for around 20 minutes in either English or Arabic. Abstracts of around 300 words\, in either language\, are expected by 1 December\, 2023. Graduate students and PhD candidates are encouraged to apply. ParIcipants will be informed by late December 2023. Please send abstracts to aric@aucegypt.edu with carbon copies to the organizers. \nInquiries can be directed to either of the organizers: Dr Nelly Hanna nhanna@aucegypt.edu\nDr Amina Elbendary abendary@aucegypt.edu \nDepartment of Arab and Islamic Civiliza7ons\nThe American University in Cairo\nAUC Avenue\, New Cairo\nP.O. Box 74\nCairo 11835\, Egypt\nPrince Al Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall\, Room 2167 tel 20.2.2615.1783/1786\nfax 2615.7565\naric@aucegypt.edu
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-empire-in-theory-and-in-middle-east-history-american-university-in-cairo-december-1-2023/
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