Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture Series

September 22, 2023 - Alireza Doostdar (University of Chicago)

“God and Revolution in Iran”

October 20, 2023 - Ahmet Karamustafa (University of Maryland)

“A Path to Early Alevi History from within the Study of Islam”

November 17, 2023 - Rodrigo Adem (Georgetown University)

“Distinct Origins: Early Islamic Theology on its own Terms”

December 1, 2023 - Tahera Qutbuddin (Oxford University)

“‘The Living Imam is the Speaking Qur’an’: Fatimid-Tayyibi Shia Doctrines of Walāyah and Taʾwīl”

January 26, 2024 - Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University)

“The Polemical Worlds of a Persian Vizier: Buddhism, Judaism, and Mongol Sacred Kingship”

March 1, 2024 - Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto)

“Waqf and Sect in Beirut: The Indeterminate Character of Property”

March 29, 2024 - Omnia El Shakry (Yale University)

“Psychoanalysis and the Calligraphy of Invention”

April 5, 2024 - Paul Walker (University of Chicago)

“Two Giants of Sunni Islam Confront the Ismailis of the Mountaintop Fortresses"

April 12, 2024 - Margaret Litvin (Boston University) - Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture on Modern Arabic Literature

“The Damascus Giraffe: What Place for Beauty in Arabic Fiction Today?”

April 26, 2024 - Susan Gunasti (Ohio Wesleyan University)

“Hadith in the Late Ottoman Empire”