Spring 2016 at the Islamic Studies Workshop

Dear colleagues,

 
Welcome to another exciting quarter of the Islamic Studies Workshop!  Unless otherwise indicated, we will be meeting from12:00pm-1:30pm in Swift Hall room 106.
 
For more information, including past events, please visit the Islamic Studies Workshop website.
 
Thursday, April 14th: Lindsey Conklin (Comparative Human Development), “Marriage in Jordan: The Middle Class, Islamic Law & Traditional Marriage”
 
Thursday, April 21st: Allison Kanner (Divinity School), “Self-Made Mystics: Autobiographies of al-Ghazālī and IbnṬufayl”
 
Thursday, April 28th: Dr. Noah Salomon (Carleton College), “Escaping the Islamic State: Reflections on Sudan at a Crossroads”
Thursday, May 5th: Alex Matthews (Divinity School), “Ineffability and the Transmission of Knowledge in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan and Plato’s Seventh Letter”
 
Thursday, May 12th: Dr. Asma Sayeed (UCLA), book discussion on Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam (Cambridge, 2015)
 
Hope to see you there!

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