Notre Dame Islamic Studies Colloquium is a group of students and professors researching Islam @NotreDame from an interdisciplinary perspective. RT = information
Pics from our Oct 31 forum. We talked abt Prof. Emilia Powell's hot off the press, Islamic Law & International Law (OUP, 2019). Keep urself updated abt our news & events through this acc, FB, & our mailing list! @GabrielSaidR@EbrahimMoosa@MahameruLee@AnsariUND@ND_Grad
In our Sept meeting, Nick Roberts presented on the Omani al-Said Dynasty & their participation in the 19th C capitalism. His research invokes important critiques for Wallerstein's world-system theory. @EbrahimMoosa@GabrielSaidR@MunimSirry@MahameruLee@HistoryDeptND
Prof. @MunimSirry talked about "Religious Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia: Explaining the Persistence of Islamic Factor" in our October 2018 meeting. An important analysis on the intertwining between national politics and religious intolerance in contemporary Indonesia.
This week #EdXQuran turns to debates over the historical context of the Qurʾan. We explore challenges to the traditional vision of Mecca as a center of trade and paganism. https://t.co/5z7jWLfS5M
Notre Dame has been awarded a $1 million grant from the @StateDept to increase academic research in the West Bank, with the long-term goal of spurring innovation-led economic growth in the region: https://t.co/D4xQc9BxpI
With the publication of the third volume, this set is now #complete: "The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols): An English Translation" by Matthew S. Gordon, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson, and Michael Fishbein https://t.co/krOhXP7U4j
#Available now: Intellectual #History of the #Islamicate World Volume 6, Issue 1–2 https://t.co/enDWHI2re6
Special Issue: "#Medical Traditions. Part II"
Edited by Leigh Chipman, Peter E. Pormann and Miri Schefer-Mossensohn
Free sample issue: https://t.co/fxFJ5qrwmd
Our own Gabriel Said Reynolds speaking on God as “the Best of Schemers” in the Bible and in the Qur’an. “You deceived me and I was deceived,” Jeremiah complains; And Q 3.54: Allah is the best of plotters! Outplotting everyone... great talk (nice tie, too) ...
Prof. Adnane Mokrani (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) talking about doing theology in an inter religious context. It can promote renewal of theology if properly undertaken. #WRWCRome@GabrielSaidR