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The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University will hold a workshop titled “Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies” on November 8, 2024, from 2:30 to 4:30 PM. The event will feature a distinguished panel of librarians and researchers, including our Managing Editor, Dr. Cem Tecimer, and Harvard librarians including Emily Coolidge-Toker, Kristine Greive, Matthew Smith, Joanne Bloom, and Amanda Steinberg. Attendees will explore a range of specialized library resources, digital research tools, and archival materials available at Harvard, valuable for scholars and researchers in the field of Islamic Studies.

The Research Methods in Islamic Studies Workshop is a bi-annual workshop that engages graduate students and faculty active in the field of Islamic Studies around current methodological questions. Where Islamic Studies is informed by, intervenes in, and adds to cognate disciplines such as Anthropology, Area Studies, History, Art History, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion Studies, this is an especially productive undertaking. The workshop showcases novel and established methods and draws special attention to the burgeoning potential of the Digital Humanities. Besides offering intellectual and logistical support, the workshop connects researchers to the various libraries, research institutes and other services at Harvard (and beyond) with the aim of fostering research opportunities and collaboration.