ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State University)
ACGIS Lecture Series with Mohammad Salama (George Mason University)
"God’s Other Book is an interdisciplinary text. I invite the reader to walk with me through Qur’anic Studies, Classical Arabic, Philosophy, Historical Criticism, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory. Above all, this is a book about the Arabic language, especially the beauty of pre-Islamic poetry that has been nearly entirely lost in academic studies, including for scholars versed in Arabic literature.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Abdulaziz Sachedina
Since the publication of Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (2022) there has been an interest in the fresh approach to capture the main aspects of morality, whether religious or secular, in Islamic thought. The Islamic textual resources underscore the principle of freedom of religion and conscience not to compel those who did not want to submit to the new social order under the prophet. The necessity of organizing an inclusive.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Oludamini Ogunnaike (University of Virginia)
Arabic poetry in praise of the prophet is by far the most popular form of literature in Muslim West Africa in both composition and performance. This talk will provide an introduction to the history, functions, forms, and spiritual significance of this rich tradition.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Muriam Haleh Davis
Muriam Haleh Davis will discuss her new book (Duke University Press, 2023), which provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Alev Çınar (Bilkent University)
ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Shenila Khoja-Moolji
ACGIS Lecture Series with Imtiyaz Yusuf
Islam and Buddhism are the two main religions of Southeast Asia. Islam is the second largest religion in the world which has had a far-reaching impact on world civilization while Buddhism is part and parcel of the cultures of some of the most important countries today. Islam and Buddhism have a shared interreligious and inter-cultural exchange in India, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. Thus, Muslim-Buddhist understanding and dialogue is critical at the moral, spiritual, cultural and also political levels. This presentation will delve on the history and the current state of the interreligious understanding and dialogue between Islam and Buddhism.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Rustam Urinboyev
Russia has become one of the main migration hubs globally following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The vast majority of migrant workers come to Russia from Central Asian countries. These migratory processes led to a drastic increase in the number of Central Asian transnational prisoners in Russia’s penal institutions.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series Sumaiyah Hamdani
The Sulayhids participated in the formation of a diasporic community which connected the Yemen with India, through the sustained contact of Tayyibi Ismaili scholars over several centuries.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Salah Chafik (University College London)
This talk will present ethnographic fieldwork from Morocco on purpose-driven indigenous institutions rooted in Islam. Often, the depiction of these institutions as decrepit mystical sanctuaries entirely neglects the wide array of public service domains that they autonomously operate in up to the present day, such as infrastructure, education, healthcare, and social services. These activities reflect their (self-understood) role in helping create a space where human dignity can be preserved and life can thrive – not from the vantage point of Washington or Brussels, but from that of the local Islamic tradition.
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ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Asma Sayeed