Early Islam and Late Antique Judaism

Date and Time

August 3 - August 4, 2026
09:00AM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Braun Room, Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School

The Harvard Divinity School presents

A conference exploring the connections between early Islam and Late Antique Judaism, featuring scholars working at the intersection of rabbinic Judaism, the Qur'an, and early Islam to reflect on the interactions between Muslim and Jewish communities in the early Islamic centuries, with a particular focus on religious history, literary, and social change.

Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/lajei

Organized by Mohsen Goudarzi (Harvard Divinity School), Shari Lowin (Stonehill College), and Holger Zellentin (University of Tubingen).

For more information, please contact Ani Kalousdian, akalousdian@hds.harvard.edu.

Co-sponsors: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; QaSLA, and The European Research Council