Events

Oct

15

Lecture

Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and Formations of Religious Identity in Early Islam with Tehseen Thaver

Location:

STEPS 101

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

In her new book, Beyond Sectarianism, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity. This book focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less…

Oct

16

Lecture

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire with SherAli Tareen

Location:

STEPS 101

October 16, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Based on the close reading of an expansive and multifaceted archive of Arabic, Persian,…

College of Arts
and Sciences

Global Islamic Studies

Events

Oct

15

Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and Formations of Religious Identity in Early Islam with Tehseen Thaver

Oct

16

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire with SherAli Tareen