Week of Events
Workshop: “Sites of Encounter in the Muslim World: Cairo & Delhi,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 7, 2024
“When: Thursday, November 7, 2024 / 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM (Pacific Time) This program, organized by UCLA History-Geography Project, and co-sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies Program and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, will help educators in applying the California History-Social Science Framework approach to 7th grade world history, centering Cairo and …
Symposium: Recent Developments in Family Law in the MENA Region, Dutch Association for the Study of Islamic Law and Law of the Middle East, November 7, 2024
On 7 November, RIMO, the Dutch Association for the Study of Islamic Law and Law of the Middle East will host an online symposium on Recent Developments in Family Law in the MENA Region, with a focus on Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria. Program: 1:00 PM – Welcome by chair Prof. Susan Rutten 1:10 PM – …
Conference: “Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics,” Humbold University, Berlin, November 8-9, 2024
From the organizers: The international conference, organized by the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in coordination with the Arbeitskreis Medizinethik und Islam (FAU Forschungszentrum Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa EZIRE, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (GAIR), addresses contemporary developments in the field of Islamic Law from an …
Talk: “Matriarchal Islam: Gendering Sharia in the Early Modern Indian Ocean” with Mahmood Kooria, Harvard University, November 4, 2024 @ 6:00 – 7:30pm
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …