November 2018
Lecture at Harvard: Scientific Expertise, Piety and Islamic Legal Opinions
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents And God knows best Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions Ahmed Ragab Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, affiliate associate professor at the department of the history of science, and director of the Science, Religion and Culture program at Harvard Divinity School. Ragab is a physician, a historian of…
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Harvard Lecture: Islamic Legalities Across the Longue Durée
The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents: "Islamic legalities across the longue durée: A preliminary historical epistemology of Islamic law" By Anver Emon, Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Anver M. Emon studies premodern and modern Islamic legal history, the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim majority world, and the historiography of that that field…
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