News & Events
The Institute of Islamic Studies is celebrating 60 years of excellence (1952-2012). Please scroll down for more information about upcoming events to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Institute in 1952.
The Institute of Islamic Studies gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the State of Qatar for these events.
For further details on any upcoming event, or to be added to our email distribution list, please contact:
Karen Moore, Outreach Administrator, at 514-398-6044 or by email.
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Upcoming Events:
"Transformations of tradition: modernity in the thought of Muhammad Bakhit Al-Muti'i"
Oral Defense of Mr. Syed Junaid Ahmed Quadri
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Morrice Hall
Octogan Room of the Islamic Studies Library
3485 McTavish Street
13h30
Congratulations to PhD candidate Mr. Kamran Karimullah on his successful oral defense
Mr. Karimullah defended his thesis, entitled "Avicenna (d. 1037), logical theory, and the Aristotelian tradition", on Friday, September 6th.
Ali Qoli Jadid al-Islam: Conversion and Polemics in Late Safavid Iran
A brown bag lunch with Alberto Tiburcio
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Morrice Hall
Common Room 321
3485 McTavish Street
12h00 noon
The Study of Islam as a Battlefield within the Humanities and the Social Sciences
A lecture by Armando Salvatore (University of Naples)
CANCELLED.
It is with regret that we must inform you that due to unforseen circumstances, these two events with Professor Armando Salvatore have been cancelled.
Monday, September 30th, 2013
3650 McTavish Street
17h30
Free Admission
Armando Salvatore is a sociologist of culture and communication who investigates overlapping dimensions of religious traditions and secular formations in historical and
comparative perspective.He teaches at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Dept. of Human and Social Sciences, and is conducting a project on religion, civility and modern
power. His forthcoming book is titled The Sociology of Islam in Comparative Perspective: Knowledge, Power and Civility (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell). He is also editing The WileyBlackwell History of Islam. Both volumes are due to appear in 2014.
The lecture will situate Marshall Hodgson’s three volume work The Venture of Islam in its historical context of production and will discuss some critical elaborations provided by sociologists and anthropologists during the last forty years. Hodgson framed his study of Islamic history in the context of a comparative vision, whereby the nature of Islamic civilization appeared as sui generis, if compared with China, India or the West, for being particularly receptive to intercivilizational exchange. This capacity to transcend conventional boundaries between world civilizations was according to Hodgson the reason for Islam’s uniquely expansive potential in cultural, as well as political, terms. Yet Hodgson was also well aware, long before Edward Said, of how much the scholarly categorizations related to Islam came to depend on the Western historic experience and in particular on the conceptual hegemony of Western modernity. Not surprisingly, the critical edges of Hodgson’s view of Islam have been taken over by several social scientists over the decades that followed the publication of his magnum opus, yet this process has not always and necessarily led to improvements in the insights provided by Hodgson’s vision. It has also been the source of misunderstandings, nested at the sensible interfacing between the history, the anthropology, and the sociology of Islam.
There will be a discussion seminar with Armando Salvatore on Tuesday, Oct 1, at 2:30pm. For more information write Setrag Manoukian.
The Uneasy Coexistence of the Sociology and the Anthropology of Islam
A seminar with Armando Salvatore (University of Naples)
Discussant: Prof. Katherine Lemons (Anthropology, McGill)
CANCELLED.
It is with regret that we must inform you that due to unforseen circumstances, these two events with Professor Armando Salvatore have been cancelled.
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
Morrice Hall, Room 328
3485 McTavish Street
14h30
All students and faculty welcome!
Students and faculty who are interested in attending the seminar are invited to read a pre-circulated text.
Please email Setrag Manoukain.
Ottoman Legacies and post-WWI Insurgencies
A lecture by Michael Provence
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
Morrice Hall
Room 328
3485 McTavish Street
16h00
Michael Provence is Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director of Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, San Diego. He earned a PhD in Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Chicago under the direction of Rashid Khalidi in 2001. He has lived and studied in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Turkey. He is the author of the book, The Great Syrian Revolt, recently published in Arabic translation, and many articles on the late Ottoman and colonial Middle East of the early 20th century.
Islamophobia: the making of a new concept.
The current state of academic research in English and French
A brown bag lunch with Houda Asal
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Morrice Hall
Common Room 321
3485 McTavish Street
12h00 noon
Sex and the Legal Subject: Women and Legal Capacity in Hanafi Law
Oral Defense of Fatima Seedat
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Morrice Hall
The Octagon
3485 McTavish Street
14h00-16h00
The Wound that Doesn’t Bargain: Reclaiming al-Karam-(a)
A brown bag lunch with Khadija Fritsch-Al Alaoui
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
Morrice Hall
Common Room 321
3485 McTavish Street
12h00 noon
Islamic Manuscripts Exhibition booklet now available online
The descriptive booklet to accompany “Strokes and Hairlines, Elegant Writing and its Place in Muslim Book Culture” was put together by Mr. Adam Gacek, the exhibit's curator.
Congratulations to Professor Robert Wisnovsky
The Institute extends our congratulations to Professor Robert Wisnovsky who has recently been promoted to full professor and has also been appointed to a James McGill professorship.