Islamic Studies Seminars 2012

Autumn 2012

25 September
'The Significance of the Writings of Shaikh Abdullah Quilliam'
Professor Ron Geaves (Liverpool Hope University)

2 October
"Why Islam is a better Example of the Religion Category than Christianity is"?
Dr Graham Harvey (Open University)

9 October
'Muslim Women as Storytellers and their Narratives of British Islam'.
Dr Sariya Contractor, (Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences University of Derby)

16 October
“The Scholar, his Wife, her Slave-Girl: Romantic Triangles and Polygamy in Fifteenth-Century Cairo”
Dr Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London)

23 October
'Regionalism in early Islamic Law and Piety'?
Dr Christopher Melchert (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

6 November
"The Sad Story of Harut and Marut: Medieval Reflections on Humanity"
Dr Stephen Burge (Quranic Studies Unit, Institute of Ismaili Studies)

13 November
Mystical Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Exegetical Material Ascribed by the Sufis to Ja`far al-Sadiq (d. 765). 
Dr Farhana Mayer (The Institute of the Ismaili Studies)

20 November
Using Each Other’s Scriptures in Public Debates in East Africa: Muslim Use of the Bible, Christian Use of the Qur'an

20 November
Using Each Other’s Scriptures in Public Debates in East Africa: Muslim Use of the Bible, Christian Use of the Qur'an
Dr. John Chesworth (University of Birmingham)      

27 November
"Cairo's Dar al-'Ulum and the Modernization of Islamic Education". 
Dr Hilary Kalmbach (University of Oxford)

4 December
"Muslim Interpretation of the Gospels in the `Abbasid Period"
Dr Mark Beaumont (London School of Theology)

 

 

Time and Location

Tuesdays 14:00 - 16:00, Room G52, ERI building

 

Further information

For more information please contact the convenor Dr Haifaa Jawad