Abdallah S. Kamel Lectures
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Current Schedule
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
"The League of Nations, Palestine, and the Last Colonialism"
March 9
Jon Hoover, University of Nottingham
"Two Kinds of Divine Transcendence"
March 27
1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time
Event canceled
"Public Freedoms in the Islamic State"
Online book discussion featuring comments by:
Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University
Moderated by:
Asli Bali, Yale Law School
With a reaction from:
Rached Ghannouchi, Leader of Ennahda