2023-2024 Lecture Series
Fall 2023
Sept. 14 – Ayşe Zarakol, University of Cambridge, “Sovereignty Across the Ages: Centralisation and its Discontents”
Oct. 5 – Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame, “Critical Traditionalism in Islamic Thought: History, Norms & Modernity”
Oct. 27 – Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, (Metropolitan Books, Oct. 3, 2023)
Nov. 2 – Waleed Ziad, University of North Carolina, “The Enchanted Journey of Bibi Sahiba: Female Religious Leadership in the Afghan Empire”
Spring 2024
Feb. 1 – Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, “Archaeology, Politics, and Law: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire”
Feb. 15 – Cole Bunzel, Stanford University, “Refounding the Kingdom: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Reframing of Saudi History”
Feb. 29 – Ziad Bou Akl, École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris, “On the Origin of Error: The Notion of Habit (ʿāda) in Averroes’ Social Epistemology”