The 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture Series presents

Brian Klug
Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford... Read more about "If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem": The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Muhammad Qasim 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

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

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

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

Prashant Keshavmurthy
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

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

Nasser Rabbat
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

CMES presents the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with

Nasser Rabbat
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT... Read more about Gibb lecture: The Historian and the City Between Ibn Khaldun and al-Maqrizi

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Ahmed El Shamsy
Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago... Read more about The Place of Ethics in Islamic law

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Shady Nasser
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University... Read more about Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Alex Metcalfe
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Lancaster University, UK... Read more about Conquest and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Sicily