2024 - 2025 Lectures and Seminars
Lectures
The lectures begin at 4:15 pm
September 19
Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University
"Economic Interest, Islamic Law, and the Saudi State under Globalization"
November 14
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
"The History of Jewish Scholarship on Islam and its Impact on Modern Jewish Self-Understanding"
January 30
Mohsen Kadivar, Duke University
"Rulership in Shi'ite Legal Theories"
February 20
Murad Idris, University of Michigan
"Qutb Postcolonial: Empire, Critique, and the World in the Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb, 1945-1954"
March 27
Iza Hussin, Cambridge University
"Itineraries of Law: Trace, Translation, Trajectory"
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Seminars
October 24 (all day)
Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University
"The Opening of Mecca and the Closure of Violence"
November 21 (1:00 - 4:00 pm)
Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center
"Ethics and Politics"