Seminars: Trinity Term 2019

The following seminars will be held at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, during Trinity Term 2019 on Wednesdays at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

The Modulus of Elasticity: Considerations for Rehabilitating (Reasonably) Open Talk on Campus

Professor Alison Scott-Baumann, SOAS, University of London

Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Muslim Piety as Economy: Markets, Meaning and Morality in Malaysia

Professor Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Denmark

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

What a ‘Textual Forensics’ Might Tell us about How Arabic Writers Conserved the Past (ca. 900-1200)

Professor Sarah Savant, Aga Khan University

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud’s Search for a Sufi Master

Dr Hatsuki Aishima, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

'A most thrilling drama hastening to a tragic end’: The Spectacle of Ottoman Decline in Early Twentieth-Century India

Professor Faridah Zaman, University of Oxford

Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Another Genealogy of Critique: On Islam and Reason

Professor Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religion and Ethnic Studies, Germany

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

God is His Own Proof: The Quest for Certainty in Islamic Mysticism, Theology, and Philosophy

Professor Yousef Casewit, University of Chicago Divinity School

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

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