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Between Wilayah and Waqf: Sacrality, Sovereignty and Society in Early Modern Central Asia
Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 9:00 am4:00 pm

Sovereignty, State, and Society

Central Asian Manuscripts at Princeton's Firestone Library

Periodization and Transregional Connections

 

Location
202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

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Between Wilayah and Waqf: Sacrality, Sovereignty and Society in Early Modern Central Asia
Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 9:00 am4:00 pm

Sufism and Sacrality

Economics, Empire, and Exchange

Location
202 Jones Hall, Princeton University
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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East
Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 12:00 pm1:20 pm

Aaron Rock-Singer is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on 20th century Islamic movements and states. He received his BA at the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Phil at Oxford and his Ph.D in Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies.  In his first book, Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media…

Location
202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

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The Social Life of Manuscripts and the Study of Arabic Literature
Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 12:00 pm1:20 pm

Matthew L. Keegan is the Moinian Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College of Columbia University. His research focuses on the intersections of Arabic literature and Islamic thought in the pre-modern world, with a particular interest in the receptions of and commentary tradition on the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī…

Location
202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

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Making Manuscripts Accessible: Preserving, Describing, and Digitizing Princeton's al-Madani Library
Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 12:00 pm1:20 pm

Deborah Schlein is the Near Eastern Studies Librarian at Princeton University Library. She received her PhD in 2019 from Princeton's Near Eastern Studies department, where she wrote her dissertation on the history of Yunani medicine in Mughal and colonial India. As Near Eastern Studies librarian at Princeton, Deborah works closely with&nbsp…

Location
202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

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The 43rd Annual Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture
Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. A historical anthropologist, Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Baha…

Location
Lewis Library

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Book Talk: Saïd Amir Arjomand
Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutions from Muhammad’s constitutive revolution in Arabia to the Abbasid revolution in the East and the Fatimid and Almohad revolutions in North Africa and the Maghreb. Bringing the…

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TBD
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Is Marriage Really Like a Sale? An Exercise in Reading Furūʿ
Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 12:00 pm1:20 pm

Marion Holmes Katz is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her research revolves around issues of Islamic law, gender, and ritual. Her publications include Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity (2002), The Birth of the…

Location
Jones 202, Princeton University

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"Political Islam in Egypt and its Opposition: The Political Theology of the Muslim Brotherhood"
Mon, Apr 24, 2023, 12:00 pm1:20 pm

Sarah Eltantawi is a scholar of contemporary Islam. She is Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University (Modern Islam) and the author if Shar'ah on Trial, Northern Nigeria's Islamic Revolution, a study of the career of the stoning punishment in Islam centered on the infamous case of Amina Lawal in Northern…

Location
Jones 202, Princeton University

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