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18 March 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Islamic Reform as a Family Affair: The Tariq Shah Wali Ullah in Modern Malaysia. Full details	Add event
11 March 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis The Poetry of the One Thousand and One Nights. Full details	Add event
6 March 2024	15:00	CSI Special Event you are invited to attend a special event, hosted at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, marking the launch of a new translation of the Holy Qur’an by Professor Bruce Lawrence and Professor M. A. Rafey Habib. Full details	Add event
4 March 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis “Our State in the End Times:” The Safavid Rule and a Shi'i Theory of Sovereignty. Full details	Add event
26 February 2024	17:00	Monday Majlis: The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr The Manṭeq al-ṭayr is often described as a spiritual journey in which the hoopoe leads a flock of birds through seven valleys towards the Simorgh. While the text does recount a spiritual journey, the quest actually makes up a very small percentage of the poem; the bulk of the work is devoted to the preparatory stories and homilies through which the hoopoe convinces the birds to set out and provides them with the knowledge they need to successfully complete it. In this sense, the poem is even more concerned with speech as an inducement to spiritual progress than it is with spiritual progress itself. In this talk, Austin O’Malley will examine the Manṭeq al-ṭayr as an exploration of speech’s perlocutionary efficacy and its limits, while showing how the frame- tale structure allows ʿAṭṭār to celebrate the power of his own homiletic discourse.. Full details	Add event
19 February 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis On Muslim Democracy: A Book Talk. Full details	Add event
12 February 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Rewilding Arabic Literature. Full details	Add event
5 February 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Multiple Paths to the Holy (conversation about the book and beyond). Full details	Add event
29 January 2024	17:00	Monday Majalis: All under the Heavens… and the Heavens, Too: Universal History and Astrology in Mongol Iran In recent scholarly and public venues, the Mongol Empire has been celebrated as a moment of pre-modern globalization, an opening of trans-continental trajectories of cultural, social, and biological exchange. This is exemplified by the celebrated work of Rashid al-Din, and especially by the world history that he presented to Öljeitü Sultan in 1307 and which has earned him hismoniker as the “first world historian.” This perspective, however, is not limited to modern analyses of the Mongol age. People living under Mongol rule were themselves already looking beyond familiar boundaries and recognizing their time as an age of new universalizing politics, scholarship, and faith. From the “detribalization” of the nomadic steppes into the supra-tribal Mongol state to Buddhist and Muslim ideas of universal kingship, the experience of Mongol rule was understood as something new and unbounded.. Full details	Add event
22 January 2024	17:00	Monday Majlis: Sufi Movements and Contestable Periodization Schemes The rise and the spread of Sufi movements in tandem with the fall of the Abbasids, a protracted process that began in the mid-9th century and continued unabated after the Mongol invasions and well beyond, is a commonplace in conventional narratives of premodern Islamic history. This long term and multi-faceted process is to some extent overshadowed by a stultifying use of periodization as a heuristic tidying up device for delineating and clarifying the transition from the pre-modern to the present. In this version of the story, it is the encounter with Europe and the impact of the West that occupy the headlines while long-term transmutations that may have occurred in the region over long centuries are relegated to the footnotes. Full details	Add event
15 January 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Full details	Add event
11 December 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Turkic martyrologies in Safavid Iran. Full details	Add event
4 December 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Amir Khusrau and the narrative of history. Full details	Add event
27 November 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Islamist Sufism: How Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s spirituality resembles mainstream Neotraditionalism. Full details	Add event
20 November 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis The adventures of Adab. Full details	Add event
13 November 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis: Ferdowsi’s ecumenism in the Shahnama. Full details	Add event
30 October 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America. Full details	Add event
16 October 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis How to Think about Muslim Difference. Full details	Add event
11 October 2023	17:30	Hafsa Kanjwal, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation. Visiting Speaker Lecture Full details	Add event
9 October 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Sharing Wives and Drinking Wine: The Mazdakites, the Ayyārs, and the Mithraists: Accusations & Realities. Full details	Add event
4 October 2023	16:00	Visiting Speaker lecture Online Visiting Speaker Lecture on the 4th of October, 16:00-17:30 (UK time). Full details	Add event
2 October 2023	17:00	Online Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam Shawkat M. Toorawa, What, Where, and Whither Waqwaq?. Full details	Add event
12 June 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Nebil Husayn The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
5 June 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis : Hassan Abbas Talk with the Author. Full details	Add event
29 May 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Helen Pfeifer The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
22 May 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Steven Judd The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
15 May 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Han Hsien Liew The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
8 May 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
27 March 2023		CSI'S Monday Majlis:Hayrettin Yucesoy The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research.. Full details	Add event
20 March 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dunja Rašić The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
13 March 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Elizabeth Urban The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
6 March 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dwight Reynolds The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
1 March 2023	17:30	Nezami Ganjavi's "The Seven Portraits" Haft Paykar, the Seven Portraits, must have delighted its patron ‘Alā’ al-Din Körp Arslān, the ruler of Maragha. What is probably Nezami Ganjavi’s last narrative poem, was composed at the very end of the 12th century CE by a mature poet who had reached the summit of his poetical art and intellectual sophistication.. Full details	Add event
27 February 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Theodore Samuel Beers The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
20 February 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Johannes Stephan The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
13 February 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Beatrice Gruendler The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
6 February 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Livnat Holtzman The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
30 January 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Massimo Ramaioli The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
23 January 2023	17:00	Accusations of Magic against the Religious ‘Others’ in the Late Antique Persianate World Iran, with its religious plurality and its conversion from Zoroastrianism to Islam, provides rich opportunities for studying the interactions between different religious communities. My dissertation attempts to provide a better understanding of the relationship between Zoroastrians, Christians and Jews in the late antiquity by examining the encounters between their religious specialists, and the changing nature of their interactions as the Persianate world shifted from Zoroastrian to Islamic rule based on the field of magic.. Full details	Add event
16 January 2023	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Hugh Kennedy The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
14 December 2022	15:00	CSI Research Seminar In this seminar, presenters will introduce a critical source for their research, explaining how they have used it, and how the source opens up future research possibilities for the wider field.. Full details	Add event
14 December 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar “What was a madrasa? The development of Islamic learning in the Indian Subcontinent”. Full details	Add event
12 December 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Kamran Talattof The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
5 December 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Martin Nixon The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
21 November 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Aurora Magliozzi The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
16 November 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI seminar : Mustafa Baig Join us for reading and discussion of a text presented by Mustafa Baig. Full details	Add event
14 November 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Letizia Osti The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
9 November 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Mercy as Muslim Practice: In search of justice with Jordan’s Bedouin. Full details	Add event
7 November 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Nikola Pantic The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
31 October 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Alexandra Hoffmann The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
24 October 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Isabel Toral and Jens Scheiner The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research.. Full details	Add event
19 October 2022	17:30	Decolonising Islamic Studies Contemporary Islamic legal studies – both inside and outside the Muslim world – commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition.. Full details	Add event
17 October 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Rahim Gholami The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
12 October 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI seminar Stagnation or Stability: Applying an Evolutionary Approach to the History of Islamic Civilisation. Full details	Add event
10 October 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Mehdy Shaddel The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. Full details	Add event
5 October 2022	15:00	Wednesday CSI Seminar 15:00-16:30 on Wednesday the 5th of October in IAIS, Lecture Theatre 2:. Full details	Add event
13 June 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto) Professor Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto) will present on "Gucci and the Waqf” looking at the post-war reconstruction of Beirut, and the role played by Islamic endowments (waqfs). Full details	Add event
8 June 2022	15:00	CSI Wednesday Seminar Nauman Naqvi, visiting professor from Habib University. Further details TBC. Full details	Add event
6 June 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) Monday 6 Professor Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) will talk about his recent research including his most recent book, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith. Full details	Add event
1 June 2022	15:00	CSI Wednesday Seminar Nadia Khalaf, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, will present on “Islamic archaeological landscapes in Africa, reflections on endangered heritage in a rapidly changing world”. Full details	Add event
30 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Usaama Al-Azami (University of Oxford) Dr Usaama Al-Azami (University of Oxford) will talk about his latest research and his recent book: Islam and the Arab Revolutions (OUP, 2021).. Full details	Add event
25 May 2022	15:00	CSI Wednesday Seminar Abdul Samad Shaikh – visiting fellow from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, will present on his research on early Islamic stories of the Prophet and hadith transmission. Full details	Add event
23 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) Professor Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) will present on “'Material turn and Islamic Studies: Manuscript studies as an example”. Full details	Add event
18 May 2022	15:00	Wednesday CSI Seminar Bianka Speidl, visiting scholar with the LAWALISI project, will talk about her research on fatwas and Islamic environmental ethics in the Shii tradition. Full details	Add event
16 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Anna Bigelow (Stanford University) Professor Anna Bigelow (Stanford University) will talk about her research around “Islam through Objects”. Full details	Add event
11 May 2022	15:00	Wednesday CSI seminar Rob Gleave, “Christian Law-Islamic Context: the Nomocanon of the Coptic canon lawyer al-Ṣafī Ibn al-ʿAssāl (d.1260)”. Full details	Add event
9 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professors Yasmin Amin and Nevin Reda (Cairo and Toronto) Professors Yasmin Amin and Nevin Reda (Cairo and Toronto) will talk about their new book: Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion. Full details	Add event
8 April 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Eyad Abu Ali (Humboldt University, Berlin) Affect in Medieval Sufism: Reconfiguring the Body and Soul through the Practice of Emotions. Full details	Add event
1 April 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Martin Nguyen (Fairfield University) Of Stories and Strangers in Islam: Prophets, Praxis, and the Everyday. Full details	Add event
30 March 2022	13:30	CSI Research Afternoon ‘Satan is with the individual’: The liminal and ambiguous Devil. Full details	Add event
29 March 2022	17:30	Visiting Speaker: Professor G. Rex Smith (University of Leeds) ON STONE, ON PAPYRUS, ON PAPER: SOME ARABIC TEXTS I HAVE KNOWN. Full details	Add event
28 March 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University Doha) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
21 March 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Junaid Quadri (University of Illinois at Chicago) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
18 March 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Dženita Karić (Humboldt University, Berlin) Beyond Pure Obedience: Early Modern Ottoman Khalwati Sermons on the Normative Rituals. Full details	Add event
16 March 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Amirah Bukhari will lead us through a text relating to her research. Full details	Add event
14 March 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Drs Kenny Schmitt (Al-Quds Bard College) and Mohammad Ghosheh (Amman) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
9 March 2022	14:00	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Shahanaz Begum and Ahmed Aldhubayhi will introduce their research. Full details	Add event
7 March 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Drs Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
4 March 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Ismail Alatas (New York University) Decolonizing Spacetime: Scalar and Societal Imaginaries in the Hajj, Travelogue of an Indonesian muḥaddith. Full details	Add event
2 March 2022	13:00	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Mostafa Movahedifar and Mohammedreza Mousavi: "Searching for the Tenets of Extremism in al-Kāfī: A Data-Analytic Approach". Full details	Add event
28 February 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
21 February 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Samer El-Karashawy (Cairo) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
18 February 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Oludamini Ogunnaike (Virginia) Decolonization beyond Decoloniality: Sufism and the Temporality of Liberation. Full details	Add event
16 February 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Hassan Asiri. Full details	Add event
11 February 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Raha Rafii (Exeter) Non-normative Bodies and Reading Fiqh with Sensitivity. Full details	Add event
9 February 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Emily Selove. Full details	Add event
7 February 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
4 February 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Noah Salomon (Virginia) Revolutionizing Religion: Two Experiments in Islam beyond the State. Full details	Add event
2 February 2022	14:00	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Raha Rafii and Robert Gleave, “Different Strokes for Different Folks: How al-Ṭūsī views non-Shīʿī views in his Kitāb al-Khilāf”. Full details	Add event
31 January 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Christian Lange (Utrecht) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
26 January 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Amina Yaqin from the English Department will introduce her research, focussing on fiction from the Indian Subcontinent tradition. Full details	Add event
24 January 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
21 January 2022	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University Qatar) Decolonial Islamic Legal Sovereignties: Colonial Reflections and Contemporary Possibilities?. Full details	Add event
19 January 2022	14:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Rob Fuller, "The orientation of the Kaʿba to Jerusalem: two sanctuaries. An older love affair.". Full details	Add event
17 January 2022	16:30	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Michael Cooperson (UCLA) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
12 January 2022	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar: Twelver Usul Bibliography Project Team and Guests Editing Islamic Manuscripts: the workshop approach. Full details	Add event
10 January 2022	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Miriam Künker (Münster Institute for Advanced Study) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
10 December 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities Liana Saif (Amsterdam) Decolonising Bāṭiniyya: Islamic Esotericism Beyond Corbinophilia and Traditionalism. Full details	Add event
8 December 2021	14:00	CSI Research Afternoon :Digital Islamic Studies: Projects and Prospects Centre for the Study of Islam Research Seminar. Full details	Add event
1 December 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Belal Alabbas, “The conditions of Tawātur in al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī’s (d. 726/1325) Commentary on Mukhtaṣar ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249)” THE. Full details	Add event
29 November 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
29 - 30 November 2021	12:00	Workshop: Medicine, Magic and Healing Professor Nahyan Fancy will host this workshop at the Hotel Du Vin In Exeter. Please see details below to register.. Full details	Add event
26 November 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities Omid Safi (Duke University):Decolonizing Sufism: Sufism between Apolitical "Moderate" Islam and New Age Appropriation. Full details	Add event
24 November 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Dr Mustafa Baig will lead an Arabic reading text. Full details	Add event
22 November 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Mirjam Kunkler (Swedish Collegium) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
15 November 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Peter Morey (Birmingham) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
12 November 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities Muhammad U. Faruque (Cincinnati) Decolonizing the Muslim Mind: Islam, Spirituality, and Human Flourishing. Full details	Add event
11 November 2021	17:30	Lecture: Professor Yossef Rapoport (QMU), “The Bedouinisation of the villages of the Middle East, 1000 - 1450: genealogy, land-tax and popular epics”. Full details	Add event
10 November 2021	15:00	Lecture: “Islamic Ethics of Pandemics: From the Theological Discussions on Contagion to the Bioethical Deliberation on Vaccination” visiting colleagues from Hamid Bin Khalifa University, Professors Mohammed Ghaly and Muetaz Al-Khatib will talk on “Islamic Ethics of Pandemics: From the Theological Discussions on Contagion to the Bioethical Deliberation on Vaccination”. Full details	Add event
10 November 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Professor Nahyan Fancy. Full details	Add event
8 November 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Emily Selove (Exeter) and Professor Geert Jan Van Gelder (Oxford) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
3 November 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Professor Dionisius Agius: “Waters” and “Mines” from al-Maqdisi’s Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma’rifat al-Aqalim. Full details	Add event
1 November 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Bianka Speidl (Budapest) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
29 October 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities Rose Aslan (California Lutheran) Embodying our Scholar Selves: Bringing Praxis and Compassion into the study of Islamic Spirituality. Full details	Add event
27 October 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Dr Kumail Rajani, “Tafwīḍ al-tashrīʿ: Delegating legislative authority to the Prophet and the Imams”. Full details	Add event
25 October 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Arezou Azad (University of Oxford) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. Full details	Add event
20 October 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Dr Omar Anchassi, 'Cosmography in Early Islamic Theology: Against Ptolemy?'. Full details	Add event
18 October 2021	17:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed (Honorary Research Fellow) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research.. Full details	Add event
15 October 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Conversations: conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualties Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego) Writing Muharram: Imperial Cultures and Cultural Representations of Shiʿi Iran, 1687–1879. Full details	Add event
13 October 2021	14:00	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Alex Hainy-Khaleeli, “Exhuming the Graveyard of Empires: Imperialism and the History of Afghanistan” and Jewel Jalil, “The Consolidation of the Ḥanbalī law school between 4th/10th – 6th/12th centuries”. Full details	Add event
8 October 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Conversations: conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualties Cyrus Zargar (University of Central Florida) “Words on Screen: Islamic Ethics, Modernity, and the Films of Majid Majidi”: in conversation with Sajjad Rizvi (IAIS).. Full details	Add event
6 October 2021	17:30	Inaugural Lecture: Professor Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University) Lecture title: "Knowing the Signs of Disease:Tracking the Evolving Understandings of Plague in Islamic Societies, 700–1300". Full details	Add event
6 October 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Geoffrey Hughes: "The Chastity Society and the Moral Claims of Mass Weddings in Contemporary Islamic Movements".. Full details	Add event
4 October 2021	17:00	CSI’S Monday Majlis : Professor Ahmed el-Shamsy (Chicago University) The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research.. Full details	Add event
30 June 2021	15:30	CSI Research Afternoon Full details	Add event
24 June 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dard Neuman (UC Santa Cruz) Heterodoxy and the Politics of the Popular in post 1857 Hindustani Music. Full details	Add event
16 June 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Pooya Razavian (Birmingham): Motahari: On Rights, Capabilities, and Moral Ontology. Full details	Add event
15 June 2021	17:00	A talk By Dr Mohammed Hashim Ghosheh (recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 2020) The Islamic Art and Architecture of al-Aqsa Mosque, the Haram al-Sharif. Full details	Add event
10 June 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Margrit Pernau (Max Planck, Berlin) Longing for the Past: Bahadur Yar Jung and the Masculinization of Islamic History. Full details	Add event
2 June 2021	17:00	Wednesday CSI seminar Ali Fares presents: The Three Yaqīn: Shaykh ʿAli Nūr al-Dīn al-Yashrūṭī’s Approach to Knowledge, Vision and Truth of Certainty. Full details	Add event
27 May 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Akbar Hyder (Texas) All Alone in Lucknow: Yagana the Ghalib-breaker. Full details	Add event
26 May 2021	17:00	CSI Evening Lecture Professor Sean Roberts (Director, International Development Studies, George Washington University, Washington, USA) will present on: The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Campaign against Xinjiang’s Muslims. Full details	Add event
20 May 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Nur Sobers-Khan (MIT) Mass-producing the Cosmos: Colonial Patronage and Print Technologies in 19th-century Divination Literature in South Asia. Full details	Add event
19 May 2021	17:00	Arabic Text Seminar Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmed (HRF, Exeter) will lead the discussion on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240). Full details	Add event
12 May 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar An informal session just before Eid to discuss what we have done and what we might do and an update on the CSI role within the growing global partnerships of the IAIS. Full details	Add event
6 May 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Sarah Waheed (Davidson College) Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India. Full details	Add event
5 May 2021	12:30	Arabic Text Seminar Luca Patrizi will lead on the discussion on adab in Bayān al-Ḥāja ilā al-Ṭibb wa al-aṭibbā’ wa-ādābihim wa-waṣāyāhim of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī. Full details	Add event
29 April 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Anand Vivek Taneja (Vanderbilt) The (Critical) Edge of Tradition: Understanding Ghalib as Wali in Contemporary Delhi. Full details	Add event
28 April 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Majid Montazer-Mahdi presents: The Politics of Collective Biographies of Shiʿi ʿUlama in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Amal al-āmil. Full details	Add event
8 April 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Najeeb Jan (Habib) Blasphemy, Biopolitics and Violence in Pakistan: Notes on the Metacolonial State. Full details	Add event
31 March 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg) Strange Success: The Enduring Appeal of an Islamic State after Colonialism. Full details	Add event
25 March 2021	16:00	MOVED TO 31st MARCH: Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Moved to 31st March. Full details	Add event
24 March 2021	14:00	CSI Research Afternoon Communities, Churches and Conversion: Christians in the Medieval Islamic World. Full details	Add event
17 March 2021	12:30	Arabic Text Seminar Amirah Bukhari to lead on a text by al-Imam 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani from his al-Risala al-Shafiya. Full details	Add event
12 March 2021	9:00	Exeter - Tokyo University Joint workshop Workshop on Islamic and Middle Eastern Intellectual History. Full details	Add event
11 March 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ali Altaf Mian (Florida) Beyond Victorian Sexuality: Intra-Muslims Contestations over the Erotic in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia. Full details	Add event
11 March 2021	9:00	Exeter - Tokyo University Joint workshop Workshop on Islamic and Middle Eastern Intellectual History. Full details	Add event
9 March 2021	9:00	Exeter - Tokyo University Joint workshop 9th 11th and 12th March Workshop on Islamic and Middle Eastern Intellectual History. Full details	Add event
3 March 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Ahmad al-Dhubayhi to present: Saru man qabalna and the Derivation of Islamic Law. Full details	Add event
25 February 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Furst (Vermont) Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Fürst (Vermont) Racialization, Minoritization, and Islam Before and After Colonialism. Full details	Add event
24 February 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Sajjad Rizvi to lead on ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s critique of moral realism in Risālat al-iʿtibārāt. Full details	Add event
17 February 2021	12:30	Arabic Text Seminar POSTPONED Luca Patrizi will lead on the discussion on adab in Bayān al-Ḥāja ilā al-Ṭibb wa al-Aṭibbā’ wa-Ādābihim waWaṣāyāhim of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī. Full details	Add event
11 February 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Mana Kia (Columbia) Companionship as Political Ethic: Late Mughal Visions of Just Rule and Ethical Service. Full details	Add event
10 February 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Rob Fuller to present: Orientation and decoration of synagogues of Late Antiquity. Full details	Add event
3 February 2021	12:30	CSI Arabic Text Seminar John P Cooper will lead the discussion about a narrative from the Histories of the Patriarchs of Egypt (سير البيعة المقدسة), set in the 8th century, in which religious legitimacy is contested through communal prayer over the annual Nile flood.. Full details	Add event
28 January 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Farah Mihlar (Exeter): Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism Dr Farah Mihlar (Exeter). Full details	Add event
27 January 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Yasmin Amin to present: Humour in the Hadith. Full details	Add event
20 January 2021	12:30	CSI Arabic Text Seminar Sajjad Rizvi to lead on the section of prophecy in Kashf al-murād fī sharḥ Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād of al-Ḥillī. Full details	Add event
14 January 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr. Samia Khatun (SOAS, London) Full details	Add event
13 January 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Istvan Kristo-Nagy: How to reform the Islamic empire? Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s use of the ‘golden age’ myth in producing trans-religious/cosmopolitan ethics and post-revolutionary political propaganda. Full details	Add event
10 December 2020	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Layli Uddin (kings College, London) Red Islam in South Asia: Sacred geographies, Networks and Oaths of Socialism. Full details	Add event
9 December 2020	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Dr Luca Patrizi Presenting: Thus Spake Adam - The Suryaniyya Language in Islamic Esotericism. Full details	Add event
2 December 2020	15:00	CSI Research Afternoon : Islam In China Our research topic 'Islam in China' will be discussed by an international panel of speakers, each of whom will present during the session that runs from 3pm until 6.45pm. This event will be hosted by the director of the CSI Sajjad Rizvi. A Zoom link will be provided prior to the event. Please contact Sajjad directly if you wish to include anyone who may not be on our internal mailing lists.. Full details	Add event
26 November 2020	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ebrahim Moosa (Notre Dame) Discursive Contestations in Post-Colonial South Asian Muslim thought. Full details	Add event
25 November 2020	12:30	Arabic text reading convened by Professor Robert Gleave Please contact R.Gleave@exeter.ac.uk if you wish to attend. Full details	Add event
18 November 2020	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Between the Gryphon and the Peacock: the quest for the Self in Bedil Dilhavi (d.1720) and the Practice of the Occult. Full details	Add event
12 November 2020	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: professor SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall) Hindu-Muslim Encounters, Power,Politics,Political Theology. Full details	Add event
11 November 2020	12:30	Arabic text reading convened by Professor Robert Gleave Papers will be distributed before the reading. Please contact Professor Rob Gleave if you wish to attend. Full details	Add event
4 November 2020	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Alexander Khaleeli-Hainy: Before the Safavids: Shi'i Preaching,Polemic,and Piety in Persian 1055-1501. Full details	Add event
29 October 2020	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Norman Baig The Universe Within: The Anthropocosmic Self in Pakistan's Sufi Tradition. Full details	Add event
21 October 2020	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Faris Abdel-Hadi to present: Ibn Arabi and the Sun-Worshippers: Assessing Lipton's Framework. Full details	Add event
15 October 2020	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Bowdoin College) Resistance and Repair: Enacting a Decolonial Praxis in Teacher Professional Development. Full details	Add event
14 October 2020	12:30	Arabic text reading convened by Professor Robert Gleave Papers will be distributed before the reading. Please contact Professor Rob Gleave if you wish to attend. Full details	Add event
12 October 2020	17:00	Exeter-Tehran-Conversations in Philosophy: Sajjad Rizvi and Mohsen Feyzbakhsh (Tehran): What is Philosophy in Iran Full details	Add event
9 October 2020		Exeter-Tehran-Conversations: Professor Muhammad Legenhausen (Imam Khomeini Institute on Ethics Full details	Add event
7 October 2020	12:30	Wednesday CSI Lunchtime Seminar Presenters: Kubra Memis and Abdullah Almatar. Full details	Add event
5 October 2020	17:00	Exeter-Tehran-Conversations: Professor Zahra Moballegh (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies): on Feminist Philosophy Full details	Add event
1 October 2020	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism Professor Shankar Nair (Virginia): Pre-colonial Possibilities for the Post-colonial: Muslim-Hindu Interactions as a Source of Theory. Full details	Add event
29 January 2020	17:30	From the Maghrib to the Mashriq through al-Andalus and Norman Sicily. The sacrifice of she-camels among the Fatimids and Safavids Professor Maribel Fierro is the Al-Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies. Full details	Add event
11 December 2019	14:45	CSI Research Afternoon: Lived Islam Professor Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College) keynote lecture on Islam as a colloquial and cosmopolitan religion, followed by 4 presentations. Full details	Add event
27 September 2019	10:00	Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion The events are all free and offered on a first come, first served basis. A diverse range of workshops, performances and interactive events run by local and international experts provide something for all ages and interests.. Full details	Add event
11 - 12 July 2019		Professor Rob Gleave (Exeter) and Dr Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster) present "Menstruation and Menopause in Islamic Legal Cultures" The workshop will bring together researchers examining different aspects of menstruation and menopause – from the ritual and religious to the social and cultural – from different methodological perspectives, and across different time periods. Contributions using a variety of theoretical insights from ritual, gender, sexuality, textual, anthropological and historical studies are particularly welcome. Full details	Add event
13 May 2019	16:30	Professor Richard Foltz (Concordia University) presents "What is the meaning of 'Tajik'?" Richard Foltz (Ph.D., Harvard, 1996) is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world and his work highlights the wide-ranging influence of Iranian civilization on diverse societies stretching from the Balkans to China.. Full details	Add event
20 - 21 March 2019	17:15	Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford) presents the talk "Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World" Christian Sahner is associate professor of Islamic History at the University of Oxford. He is principally interested in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Middle Ages, relations between Muslims and Christians, and the history of Syria and Iran. A graduate of Oxford and Princeton, where he earned his doctorate in 2015, he is the author of two books: 'Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present' (Oxford/Hurst, 2014) and 'Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World' (Princeton, 2018).. Full details	Add event
19 March 2019	14:00	Dr Imam Mamadou Bocoum and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on "Finding the Hope" Join Dr Imam Mamadou Bocoum and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on 'Finding the Hope': a deep dive into scripture and history. Full details	Add event
18 March 2019	9:00	Making Sense of the Qur’an in Translation Al-Qasimi Visiting Islamic Studies Professor, Bruce Lawrence will host the conference linked to his research, forming an element of his tenure here. All are welcome to some or all of the conference. There is a pack of papers – if you are interested in receiving this pack, then email csi@exeter.ac.uk. Full details	Add event
6 - 7 March 2019	17:15	Professor Adam Sabra (University of California at Santa Barbara) presents the talk "Household and State in Ottoman Egypt: The Case of al-Sāda al-Bakrīy" Adam Sabra is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he holds the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies. Currently, he is a senior research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for the Study of Islamicate Intellectual History at the University of Bonn. He has published extensively on the history of Egypt in the Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates. His most recent publication is ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Shaʿrani, Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs' (Yale University Press, 2017). Full details	Add event
27 February 2019	17:15	Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke University & Honorary Research Fellow, Exeter) presents "Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience and the Syrian Revolution" Miriam Cooke is Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures emerita at Duke University. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Istanbul. She serves on several national and international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions. Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature, Arab women writers’ constructions of Islamic feminism, contemporary Syrian and Khaliji cultures, and global Muslim networks. Full details	Add event
23 March 2018	13:00	Centre for the Study of Islam Research Seminar "Centre and Periphery in Muslim Minority Studies" We welcome Professor Philipp Bruckmayr from the University of Vienna. Professor Bruckmayr works on Muslim communities in the Indian subcontinent and East Asia. His work covers intellectual history, Muslim community relations, and Muslims living in minority contexts. He was ERASMUS fellow here in Exeter earlier this term, and we welcome him back for this workshop. Full details	Add event
17 January 2018	17:15	The Ash'ari creed in Southeast Asia across the Centuries Muslim Southeast Asia is known as a region thoroughly dominated by Shāfiʽi law and Ashʽari theology. This dominance was the result of a gradual marginalization of non-Ashʽari theology in the region and the linked ascendancy of a specific strand of Ashʽarism based on the thought of the post-classical North African scholar Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Sanūsī (d. 895/1490). From the mid-18th century onwards local Islamic scholars have produced an extensive body of Ashʽari creeds, mainly in Malay, but also in other Southeast Asian languages, thereby firmly entrenching a common standard of orthodoxy across the region. By the mid-20th century, however, several challenges to the status quo had become manifest.. Full details	Add event