Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies & Middle East Studies Forum Schedule of Events for Spring '24 apr 2 | Marta Tawil Kuri: “Latin America and the War on Gaza” apr 4 | Sebnem Gumuscu: “Democracy or…
Event Type: Academic
The modern university’s neglect of theology, Dr. Heck suggests in this lecture, blocks a fuller account of politics in Islam. Theology, which evaluates transcendent claims, highlights the way people…
Speaker: Louis Fishman is an associate professor in the history department at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of the book Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era…
Nineteenth-century Persian history writing has attracted surprisingly little attention in modern scholarship despite the profound formalistic and substantive transformations that informed its…
In this talk, prominent political activist Sanaa Seif and award-winning journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous will discuss the current political conditions in Egypt, the massive expansion of the carceral…
Participants: Nora Elizabeth Barakat (Stanford), Mohammed Khalil (Stanford), and Rhea Kale (Stanford), with response from David Joseph Wrisle y (NYU Abu Dhabi) What is the textual heritage of the…
Workshop 4 of the Stanford Global Studies Research Workshop series: Neoliberal Heritagescapes: Culture and Urbanism in Post-Conflict Cities About the talk: On the 4 th of August 2020, the huge…
In recent years, the study of the Persianate world has gained more momentum. Scholars have discussed and debated its meaning utility, and value as a category of analysis for different discipline, and…
What explains the turn towards more politically relevant Sunni and Shii identities in the modern period? How do we account for a shift from Sunni-Shii cooperation against colonialism, for example, or…
Kerem Ussakli will be presenting his research to the Abbasi Student Network.