Recent academic conferences, symposia and workshops hosted by the Abbasi Program at Stanford Persian Poetics (2020) Islam, Objects, and Everyday Life (2019) Trans;form: Comparative Literature with Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Urdu (2018) Quality of Governance: Muslim Societies in Comparative Perspective (2018) Understanding Turkey: Vision, Revision, and the Future (2017) AALIMS Conference On Political Economy of Islam and Muslim Societies (2016) The Middle East, North Africa and the World 1907 - 2008 (2015) Beyond the Islamic Public Sphere in Africa (2014) Image as Animation: Mysticism, Magic, and Poetry in Byzantine Christian & Islamic Religious Experience (2013) AALIMS Conference on Economic and Political Development of the Muslim World (2012) Language, Literacy and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies (2011) Alienated Nations, Fractured States: Afghanistan and Pakistan (2010) Evidence for the Early History of the Quran (2009)