School of Religious Studies Department of

AnthropologyInstitute of

Islamic Studies

ISLAMIC ENCOUNTERSLECTURE SERIES

ALIREZA DOOSTDAR Islam, Science, and the Gender of Reason

OCT9

CHRISTOPHER SILVER A Sound History: Rethinking the Jewish-Muslim Past in the Twentieth Century Maghrib through Music

OCT18

NOAH SALOMON For Love of the Prophet: The Art of Islamic State-Making in Sudan

NOV6

DAMIEN JANOS

ROBERT WISNOVSKYNew Perspectives on Christian Philosophers in Medieval Islamic Baghdad

NOV27

KAVEH HEMMAT Repoliticizing the Silk Road: China in Islamic Political Thought & Geographical Imagination

JAN8

SETRAG MANOUKIAN

ARMANDO SALVATOREThe Impersonal: Traditions and Practices APR

3

MILAD ODABAEI Islam, Translation, and the ‘Outside’ FEB26

STEFANIA PANDOLFO Dreaming at the Threshold of the Law:An Islamic Liturgy of Healing

MAR14

MATTHEW MELVIN-KOUSHKI Magic for Warlords: Imperial Occult Science in the Early Modern Persian Cosmopolis

MAR19

MARWA ELSHAKRY Modern Arabic Universal Histories: Between Universalism and Historicism

APR8

BILAL KUSPINAR Mawlana Rumi’s Spiritual Legacy Within World Civilizations

NOV28

FATEMEH SADEGHI Women of the Empire: From Zoroastrianism to Islam

JAN22

MICHAEL NAFI The Problem of ‘Human Nature’ in Greek and Islamic Thought

FEB11

PATRICE BRODEUR Muslim Initiatives in International Interreligious Dialogue

MAR27