2026-2027 Lectures and Seminars
Lectures
The lectures begin at 4:30 pm
October 29
Alexander Key, Stanford University
"The Metaphors of Law"
November 12
Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University - Doha
"The Displacement and Transformation of Islamic Law in British India"
January 21
Megan Brankley Abbas, Colgate University, author of Whose Islam? The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia (Stanford UP, 2021)
February 5
Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College, author of Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society (Columbia UP, 2019)
March 26
Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University, author of Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform (Oneworld Publications, 2026)
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Seminars
December 3-4
"Islamic Legal Origins Reconsidered," a seminar featuring, among others, Ahmed El-Shamsy (Chicago), Michael Cook (Princeton), Eve Krakowski (Princeton), Mathieu Tillier (Sorbonne), Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge), and Marion Katz (NYU). Tobias Scheunchen (Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies) organized and will direct the seminar.