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Kitāb al-Ḥayda and Early Ḥanbalī Creeds

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

Among Islamic groups, Sunnī traditionalists, especially Ḥanbalīs, were strongly opposed to kalām (dialectical theology). Their condemnation of kalām was such that it became an established article of their creeds. Notwithstanding this official condemnation, there is evidence in their writings that they practiced kalām. For example, Ḥanbalī practices of kalām have been examined in the work...

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The Substantive Pull of Procedure in Early Islamic Courts: The Curious Case of Bughaybigha

UCLA School of Law, Room 1457

A lecture by Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History and as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for...

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Islam and Muslims in an Age of ISIS and Islamophobia

UCLA Campus, Young Hall CS 50 Los Angeles, CA

with Professor Omid Safi Director, Islamic Studies Center Duke University A public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies-MRI Fund Co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) and the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both...

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Rare Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

This lecture will describe some of the rare holdings of al-Khizāna al-Ḥassania, discuss issues related to Maghribi paleography, codicology, and art, imagery, and the symbolism and significance of color used in selected manuscripts. The lecture will also offer advice for potential researchers and suggest fruitful avenues for research in manuscripts at the Ḥassania Library.  ...

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Copying and Reading Sacred Scriptures: Qurʾan and Torah in Comparative Perspective

Zoom Meeting

This talk by Professor Daniella Talmon-Heller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will highlight commonalities and differences between Jewish and Muslim thinking about the aural, graphic, and material forms of the Torah and Qurʾan. Jews and Muslims have both been preoccupied with transcribing and reading the authentic text as accurately as possible while securing its sanctity. They have...

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Islamic Sensory History: Notes on an Emerging Field

Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The sensory turn in many areas of the humanities has failed to make a significant impression on Islamic and Middle East Studies, and on the study of Islamic history in particular. In the last couple of years, however, there has been a rise in interest in historical manifestations of the Muslim sensorium. This is demonstrated...

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‘Aqām al-ḥajj Fulān’: The Leaders of Abbasid Pilgrimage in the Early Islamic Annalistic Tradition

Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 193/809) allegedly led the ḥajj nine times over the course of his twenty-three-year reign, in 188/804 he was also the last ʿAbbāsid caliph to lead the pilgrimage rites. The pilgrimage served as a means of legitimation as well as a place of succession and nomination, with Hārūn and his wife Zubayda bt....

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Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) Fall 2022

Bunche Hall 10383 on Friday and Royce 314 on Saturday

UCLA will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) hybrid, both in person and online. Organized by CMRS-CEGS faculty member Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA, History) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Friday, November 18 10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) & Zoom 1:30pm Registration 2pm Opening Speech – James Gelvin (UCLA) 2:30-3:30pm Panel...

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