Past Events

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,…

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…

Sep

24

Lecture

What is Muslim Cinema? with Kristian Petersen

Location:

STEPS 101

September 24, 2024, 4:30 - 6pm

At a moment when Muslims are so frequently vilified in popular media, what can be learned by focusing on cinema where Muslim creatives are in control and testify to their own self-presentation? In this presentation, Petersen offers an analytical framework that can register and…

May

2

Lecture

Migratory Adventure and Religious Experiences in a Provincial Malian Town with André Chappatte

Location:

BI 108

May 2, 2024, 4:15 - 5:45pm

Presented by the Africana studies program, the global studies program, and the Center for Global Islamic Studies, André Chappatte is an assistant professor of anthropology at the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva.

Apr

9

Class/Workshop

Complicating Queerness in the Middle East with Madian al-Jazerah

Location:

Humanities Center

April 9, 2024, 7 - 9pm

Presented by Lehigh University Global Studies, the Center for Global Isalmic Studies, the Pride Center, and the Humanities Center, Madian al-Jazerah, activist, entrepeneur, and author of Are You This? Or Are You This? will be joinging us for a dinner conversation around…

Mar

21

Lecture

The Metaverse and its Premoderns: Islam in an Expanding Reality with Christiane Gruber

Location:

STEPS 101

March 21, 2024, 4:30 - 6pm

Christane Gruber, Professor of Islamic Art and Former Chair of the History of Art Department at the Universoty of Michigan, will discuss the Metaverse and its Premoderns: Islam in an Expanding Reality. Dr. Gruber is a professor as well as Founding Director of Khamseem: Islamic…

Feb

27

Lecture

Arab-Ottoman Imperialists of Istanbul at the Turn of the 20th Century with Mostafa Minawi

Location:

STEPS 101

February 27, 2024, 4:30 - 6pm

This lecture is based on Mostafa's latest book, "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire." It is a micro-history of major events that a small Arab-Ottoman community of Istanbul lived through. Following an extended family of Ottoman imperial loyalists,…

Feb

7

Lecture

How to Think About Muslim Difference with Youshaa Patel

Location:

STEPS 101

February 7, 2024, 4:30 - 6pm

Drawing on his recently published book, The Muslim Difference (Yale 2022), Youshaa Patel explores the vexing Islamic discourse of reprehensible imitation (tashabbuh), a discourse that enjoins ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference from Christians,…

Dec

5

Class/Workshop

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Teach-In

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

December 5, 2023, 5 - 6:30pm

Everyone’s talking about the war in the Gaza Strip, but why did it happen now?Why does it raise such a high emotional response? What can we do about it?Come and hear experts in this teach-in and join the conversation. The event will be divided between three 10-minute…

Sep

27

Lecture

The Idea of Nature with Naveeda Khan

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

September 27, 2023, 4:30 - 6pm

This talk Naveeda Khan will present the context and major arguments of her recently published book River Life and the Upspring of Nature based on five years of fieldwork in the riverine chars of northern Bangladesh.  

Sep

18

Lecture

The Praiseworthy One: Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions with Christiane Gruber

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

September 18, 2023, 4:30 - 6pm

This talk explores a number of paintings of the Prophet Muhammad produced in Persian and Turkish lands from the fourteenth century to the modern day. Ranging from veristic to abstract, these images represent Muhammad’s individual traits, primordial luminosity, and veiled essence…

Apr

25

Lecture

The Women's Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam with Tazeen M. Ali

Location:

STEPS 290

April 25, 2023, 4:30 - 6pm

In this talk, Tazeen M. Ali explores how American Muslim women create and authorize new conceptions of authority at the Women's Mosque of America, a woman-only mosque in Los Angeles. These women form new configurations of religious authority against both the marginalization they…