Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization
Kamel Center Program 2022-2023
Fall 2022:
September 22
Rob Gleave, University of Exeter
“The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Shiite Law: Legal Theory, Politics and the Jurisprudent’s Prerogative”
October 27
Chiara Formichi, Cornell University
“Health, Hygiene, and Halal: fatwas and marketing in Colonial Java”
November 10
Hugh Kennedy, SOAS University of London
“The Language of Authority in Early Islam: The Evolving Meanings of the term Sultan”
November 17
Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University, and Orit Malka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The Biblical Roots of the Central Quranic Concept of ‘Witnessing’”
Spring 2023:
January 26
Ussama Makdisi, University of California at Berkeley
February 23
Jon Hoover, University of Nottingham
