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LECTURE :: Conquest and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Sicily
Alex Metcalfe, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Lancaster University, UK Dr. Metcalfe will discuss part of his research on the Islamic world in the Mediterranean basin. Presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
CONFERENCE :: Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures: A Celebration of Professor William A. Graham
Location: Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Free and open to the public Details forthcoming Sponsors: The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Center for the Study of World Religions, and The Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School
Book Talk :: “Narrating Muslim Sicily: War And Peace In The Medieval Muslim World”
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University and Program in Islamic Law welcomes William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor Of The Practice Of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department Of Comparative Literature, Harvard University to discuss “Narrating Muslim Sicily: War And Peace In The Medieval Muslim World”.
Book Talk: “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, And The Challenge Of Solidarity”
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Li is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, December 2019), which develops an ethnographic approach to the comparative study of universalism using the example of transnational “jihadists” …
Harvard CMES: Archive Wars – The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Rosie Bsheer
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a discussion of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Rosie Bsheer (Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University) The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of …