This workshop aims to focus on Strauss’ concern with Islamic political philosophy, and is intended as an occasion to verify to what extent the Straussian inquiry devoted to Islamic sources.
Workshop: Leo Strauss, Islamic Philosophy, and the End of Pre-Modernity
A public lecture on Friday, April 26 by Visting Professor in Social Thought and Associate Professor of the History of the Arab-Islamic Mediterranean at the University of Rome Leonardo Capezzone
Notes for a History of Nostalgia in Classical Arabic Culture
A workshop that examines whether Shiʿism forms a distinct field of research and study, with its own methodological approaches. Studying Shīʿī Islam: Prospects and Challenges
Studying Shīʿī Islam: Prospects and Challenges
A Public Lecture by Visiting Professor Robert Gleave
Islam, Violence and the Sacred: Insurgent Shi'ism in Muslim History
This workshop reviews the diverse methodologies currently applied in Qur’anic studies. It takes a fresh look at texts that incorporate traditional and modern, Arab and Muslim scholarship.
Qur'anic Studes Today: a workshop
The Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative is a three-year project, designed to support the expansion and enhancement of the study of Islam at the University of Chicago. Administered by the Divinity School, the initiative is a cross-divisional collaboration, intended to create a sustained campus conversation about the future of Islamic studies.
Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the initiative will bring to the University distinguished visiting scholars representing a wide range of topics in Islamic Studies. Each visitor will bring to the community a unique area of expertise, which they will share with the campus by giving a public lecture, teaching a class, and organizing a conference or symposium on their topic of study.
With one visitor per quarter over the next three years, the result will be a substantive, sustained discussion about both specific topics in Islamic studies and the wider field of study. Our campus-wide program of visitors is a bold attempt to create a more seamlessly interdivisional and interdisciplinary context for Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago and, in so doing, to establish a model for academia more broadly.
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Public Lecture by Professor Leonardo Capezzone
Notes for a History of Nostalgia in Classical Arabic Culture
Friday, April 26 Swift Hall, Common Room 4:30 pm (reception to follow)
Leonardo Capezzone is a Visiting Professor in Social Thought and an Associate Professor of the History of the Arab-Islamic Mediterranean at the University of Rome
Workshop: Studying Shīʿī Islam: Prospects and Challenges
Friday March 8 Swift Hall, Common Room (reception to follow)
Public Lecture by Professor Robert Gleave
Islam, Violence & the Sacred: Insurgent Shi'ism in Muslim History
Friday January 18 Swift Hall Common Room 4:30 pm (reception to follow)
Robert Gleave, Visiting Professor in the Department of History, and Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter.