Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture Series
September 22, 2023 - Alireza Doostdar (University of Chicago)
“God and Revolution in Iran”
October 20, 2023 - Ahmet Karamustafa (University of Maryland)
“A Path to Early Alevi History from within the Study of Islam”
November 17, 2023 - Rodrigo Adem (Georgetown University)
“Distinct Origins: Early Islamic Theology on its own Terms”
December 1, 2023 - Tahera Qutbuddin (Oxford University)
“‘The Living Imam is the Speaking Qur’an’: Fatimid-Tayyibi Shia Doctrines of Walāyah and Taʾwīl”
January 26, 2024 - Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University)
“The Polemical Worlds of a Persian Vizier: Buddhism, Judaism, and Mongol Sacred Kingship”
March 1, 2024 - Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto)
“Waqf and Sect in Beirut: The Indeterminate Character of Property”
March 29, 2024 - Omnia El Shakry (Yale University)
“Psychoanalysis and the Calligraphy of Invention”
April 5, 2024 - Paul Walker (University of Chicago)
“Two Giants of Sunni Islam Confront the Ismailis of the Mountaintop Fortresses"
April 12, 2024 - Margaret Litvin (Boston University) - Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture on Modern Arabic Literature
“The Damascus Giraffe: What Place for Beauty in Arabic Fiction Today?”
April 26, 2024 - Susan Gunasti (Ohio Wesleyan University)
“Hadith in the Late Ottoman Empire”