Najm al-Din al-Katibi (d. 1276) wrote a logic text for intermediate students, The Epistle on Logical Rules for Shams al-Din. It became wildly successful, read by most students in the course of their madrasah education. What made it such a bestseller? Some of Katibi's readers went on to deal with immeasurably more difficult texts like Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji's Disclosure of Secrets from the Obscurities of Thought. How did the Shamsiyyah prepare them for dealing with advanced topics in research on logic? The talk offers some...

Anna Akasoy, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Graduate Center, CUNY

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Cosponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, Georgetown University

Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women's...

Robert Morrison, George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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Adam Mestyan, Associate Professor of History, Duke University

In this talk, I argue that the concepts of new imperial history better describe and explain state-making among the post-Ottoman Arab peoples than the old national, imperial, colonial, and postcolonial vocabularies. First, I introduce the main terms in my recent monograph, Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking The Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (...

Speaker: Robin Meyer, Université de Lausanne

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Dr. Andrew Danielson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia

Andrew Danielson received his PhD in Levantine Archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He is the Field Director of the Town of Nebo Archaeological Project, excavating the site of Khirbat al-Mukhayyat in Jordan. There he leads the investigation of the Iron Age contexts, examining questions related to cross-cultural interaction and sociopolitical changes at the...

A lecture by Amina Elbendary, Associate Professor of Middle East History, American University in Cairo and Shawwaf Visiting Professor. 

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In this workshop, students will learn how satellite technology is transforming the documentation of cultural heritage in contexts of armed conflict and genocide. The workshop will explore a range of case studies from around the world – from the Caucasus to China, from Syria to Ukraine – to learn how researchers acquire, organize, and assess satellite imagery, maps, and cultural heritage inventories, and how they disseminate findings of cultural erasure in different fora.

Adam T. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology at Cornell...

As cultural heritage...

The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund, The Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies & the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations present

Rachel Goshgarian
Associate Professor and Assistant Head, Department of History, Lafayette College

Gayatri Chakraborty-Spivak explained in her 1994 essay, “Will Postcolonialism Travel?” that “Armenia cannot lean toward existing theories. It cannot be comfortably located in the generally recognized lineaments of contemporary...