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Abdallah S. Kamel Lectures

2025-26 Lectures and Seminars

Lectures

The lectures begin at 4:15 pm

October 2

Rushain Abbasi

"The Opening of Mecca and the Closure of Violence"

Room SLB 128

November 6

Frederick Starr, American Foreign Policy Council

"What Early Muslims Missed, the Cost, and Recent Efforts to Fill the Gap"

Calabresi Faculty Lounge, Sterling Law Building

February 5

Mathieu Tillier, Sorbonne Université

Title and location forthcoming.

February 19

Samy Ayoub, University of Texas Law School

“Creative Destruction: Islamic Law, Courts and Legal Modernity in Egypt, 1800–1955”

Location TBD

March 26

Hossein Modaressi, Princeton University

Title and location forthcoming.

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Research Forums

September 25 

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Yale University, Religious Studies

"A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene and the Malleability of Memory"

4:15 - 5:30 pm in SLB 109

October 9 

Mehdi Ali, Kamel Fellow, Yale Law School

"Divine Justice, Moral Autonomy, and the Ontology of God in Classical Islam"

4:15 - 5:30 pm in SLB 109

RSVP required. Email the kamel.center@yale.edu to RSVP and obtain a copy of the paper to be discussed or any other information.