2020-2021 Lecture Series
Fall 2020
Oct. 1 – Ryan Thum, University of Nottingham, “The Idea of Islam and the Internment of Muslims”
Nov. 12 – Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers, “Should a Muslim Woman Be President? Race, Gender, and the Insurgent Legacies of American Islam”
Spring 2021
Feb. 11 – Nicolai Sinai, Oxford University, “Qur'anic Semantics and the Nascency of an Islamic Lexicon”
Feb. 25 – Sarah Eltantawi, Fordham University, “Political vs. Idealized Shari’ah in Northern Nigeria”
March 11 – Sarah Stroumsa, Hebrew University, “The Voice of Written Texts, and the Myth of Jewish Andalusian Freethinking”
April 1 – Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan, “A Clash of Islams: Salafism versus Sufism”