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.