Religion

Video: “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

May 4, 2018

Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, delivers the 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture.... Read more about Video: “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

2018 Nov 12

And God knows best: Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Ahmed Ragab
Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School... Read more about And God knows best: Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions

2018 Sep 28

Thinking Islam Within Religions Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
presents

moroccan tile Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

Professor William A. Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard. Please join us for a day-long conference in honor of his career and scholarship.... Read more about Thinking Islam Within Religions Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

2018 Oct 03

Situating Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia and the Balkans (14th and 15th centuries)

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Ahmet T. Karamustafa Ottoman Baba's mausoleum
Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park... Read more about Situating Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia and the Balkans (14th and 15th centuries)

2018 Sep 28

Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Caliphate Redefined

A conversation about Hüseyin Yilmaz's new book, with the author and guests... Read more about Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought

2018 Sep 26

The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for the Study of World Religions, John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present a lecture by

Guy Stroumsa religious architecture
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Oxford University

Response by Jon Levenson, Harvard Divinity School;
Opening Remarks by Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School, and Adam Afterman, Tel-Aviv University
... Read more about The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

2018 Nov 08

Kingdoms of Faith - Writing a New History of Islamic Spain

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present the
Inaugural Joint Lecture in Medieval Middle Eastern Studies featuring

Brian Catlos
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder... Read more about Kingdoms of Faith - Writing a New History of Islamic Spain

Ozkan Karabulut

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

karabulut@g.harvard.edu

Piecing Together Egypt’s Rupture

September 9, 2013

On September 5, Professors Tarek Masoud, of Harvard Kennedy School, and Roger Owen, from the Department of History, along with graduate student Sarah Moawad, who recently returned to campus after several weeks in Egypt, discussed that country's recent unrest in front of a capacity crowd at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read the full article in the Harvard Gazette.

2018 May 04

"If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem": The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, Ma 02138

CMES is pleased to present the 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Brian Klug
Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford

Watch Brian Klug's lecture
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2018 Apr 24

Scripture, Translation, and Authority in Muslim South Asia, 18th-20th Centuries

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CGIS South, Rm 020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Muhammad Qasim Zaman Muhammad Zaman
Professor in the department of Religion and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University... Read more about Scripture, Translation, and Authority in Muslim South Asia, 18th-20th Centuries

2018 Apr 25

The Conquests of Kisirwan: Ibn Taymiyya and a Claimed-as-Twelver-Shi`i Past

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Islamic Studies Lunch Seminar presents

Samer El-Karanshawy
Carnegie Centennial Fellow, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC

RSVP required... Read more about The Conquests of Kisirwan: Ibn Taymiyya and a Claimed-as-Twelver-Shi`i Past

2018 Apr 14

Symposium on Islam, Dialogue, and Sectarian De-Escalation

(All day)

Location:

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Iran Project, Harvard Kennedly School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, presents a

Symposium on Islam, Dialogue, and Sectarian De-Escalation

Full schedule & RSVP at www.belfercenter.org/IslamSymposium... Read more about Symposium on Islam, Dialogue, and Sectarian De-Escalation

2018 Apr 13

Sharḥ: Two Kinds of Sociality and Two Ways of Reading in Three Mughal Commentaries on Sa‘di’s Gulistān

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Director's Series and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations present

Prashant Keshavmurthy Mughal Gulistan manuscript page
Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies, McGill University... Read more about Sharḥ: Two Kinds of Sociality and Two Ways of Reading in Three Mughal Commentaries on Sa‘di’s Gulistān

2018 Apr 05

Gibb lecture: Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

CGIS South, Rm 020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES is pleased to present the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series speaker

Nasser Rabbat Arches in the hall of lions, Alhambra
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

Please note the lecture's new time: 5:00-7:00 pm... Read more about Gibb lecture: Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture

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Video: “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

And God knows best: Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions

Location:

Thinking Islam Within Religions Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

Location:

Situating Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia and the Balkans (14th and 15th centuries)

Location:

Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought

Location:

The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

Location:

Kingdoms of Faith - Writing a New History of Islamic Spain

Location:

Ozkan Karabulut

Piecing Together Egypt’s Rupture

"If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem": The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

Location:

Scripture, Translation, and Authority in Muslim South Asia, 18th-20th Centuries

Location:

The Conquests of Kisirwan: Ibn Taymiyya and a Claimed-as-Twelver-Shi`i Past

Location:

Symposium on Islam, Dialogue, and Sectarian De-Escalation

Location:

Sharḥ: Two Kinds of Sociality and Two Ways of Reading in Three Mughal Commentaries on Sa‘di’s Gulistān

Location:

Gibb lecture: Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture

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