2022-2023 Lecture Series
Fall 2022
Sept. 22: Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, “The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Shiite Law: Legal Theory, Politics and the Jurisprudent’s Prerogative”
Oct. 27: Chiara Formichi, Cornell University, “Health, Hygiene, and Halal: fatwas and marketing in Colonial Java”
Nov. 10: Hugh Kennedy, SOAS University of London, “The Language of Authority in Early Islam: The Evolving Meanings of the term Sultan”
Nov. 17: Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University, Orit Malka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Biblical Roots of the Central Quranic Concept of ‘Witnessing’”
Spring 2023
Jan. 26: Ussama Makdisi, University of California at Berkeley, “The League of Nations, Palestine, and the Last Colonialism”
March 9: Jon Hoover, University of Nottingham, “Two Kinds of Divine Transcendence”