BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Islamic Studies - UCLA - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Islamic Studies - UCLA X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Islamic Studies - UCLA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T183000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000601Z CREATED:20190418T155423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000601Z UID:13311-1558540800-1558549800@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World DESCRIPTION:Copies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. \nTo RSVP\, please click here. URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-by-nile-green-the-persianate-world/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T170000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000621Z CREATED:20190415T172753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000621Z UID:13274-1558350000-1558544400@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:An Introduction to Islamic Manuscript Culture DESCRIPTION:This free workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Islamic manuscripts and manuscript culture\, using the extensive holdings of the Special Collections at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library. It is intended for advanced students and scholars with backgrounds in Islamic studies and/or manuscript studies. Sessions will be devoted to such topics as parchment and paper\, bindings and structures\, quires and codices\, scripts and hands (paleography)\, and historical and paratextual elements. Participants will learn to produce accurate basic descriptions of Islamic manuscripts. Limited funding may be available to offer some participants coming from outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area $150–200 travel grants. Applicants will be notified if they have been selected for a travel grant approximately one month in advance of the workshop. \nEvyn Kropf is Librarian for Middle East Studies and Religious Studies and Curator of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan. She obtained her\nbachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville (2003) and her master’s degree in Information Science with a\nspecialization in Library and Information Services from Michigan (2009). She has studied Arabic language\, historiography\, and topics further related to Islamic manuscript culture. As cataloguer for the "Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan’s project (2009-2012)\, she led the descriptive effort which realized the detailed cataloguing of 904 codex manuscripts from the Library’s Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Her research interests include Islamic codicology and manuscript culture\, reading and collecting practices\, and the use of pictograms and other visual content in Sufistic cultures of knowledge transmission\, as well as manuscript cataloguing and digital mediation of cultural heritage. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease apply using the following link: https://ucla.in/2UMJTXw \nNote that space is limited and that completing the form does not guarantee acceptance to the workshop. \nFor more information contact: cnes@international.ucla.edu URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/an-introduction-to-islamic-manuscript-culture/ CATEGORIES:NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T133000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000641Z CREATED:20190306T195002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000641Z UID:12894-1558008000-1558013400@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Multilingualism in Early Islamic Egypt: The View from Papyri DESCRIPTION:After Arab armies conquered Egypt in the mid-seventh century\, the country’s linguistic landscape changed only gradually. Greek\, preeminent for centuries as a language of high culture and governance\, faded as Arabic advanced to fill these niches. Coptic\, which until then had functioned largely as a vernacular\, became in its turn a language of culture and administration. This talk traces the three languages’ variable coexistence in a time of political and social change through the papyri and literary sources. \nSponsored By: \nDean’s Discretionary Fund \nCenter for Near Eastern Studies \nDr. Naïm Vanthieghem is a Research Scholar at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT)\, a division of the Centre National de la Recherche\nScientifique in Paris. A papyrologist and historian of Egypt who works with Arabic\,\nCoptic\, and Greek documents\, he earned a PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 2015. He held post-doctoral fellowships from the European Research Council and Princeton University before joining the IRHT in 2017. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of interest\, which include multilingualism\, law\, scribal practice\, early Islam\, and governmental administration. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”115″ title=”false” description=”true”] URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/multilingualism-in-early-islamic-the-view-from-papyri/ CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T133000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000435Z CREATED:20190424T212016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000435Z UID:13341-1557835200-1557840600@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Using Documents in the Study of Early Islam: A Brief Introduction DESCRIPTION:Come hear papyrologist Dr. Naïm Vanthieghem discuss the use of documents\, particularly papyri\, in the field of Islamic Studies. This informal talk is designed with graduate students in mind and will include ample time for discussion\, Q & A\, and even trying your hand at deciphering documentary sources. Dr Vantheighem brings experience working directly on papyrus fragments of the Quran\, the earliest calendars used by Muslims\, and notebooks compiled by students of the early hadith transmitters. \nDr. Naïm Vanthieghem is a Research Scholar at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT)\, a division of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. A papyrologist and historian of Egypt who works with Arabic\, Coptic\, and Greek documents\, he earned a PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 2015. He held post-doctoral fellowships from the European Research Council and Princeton University before joining the IRHT in 2017. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of interest\, which include multilingualism\, law\, scribal practice\, early Islam\, and governmental administration. \n  \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served to those who RSVP \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”123″ title=”false” description=”true”] URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/using-documents-in-the-study-of-early-islam-a-brief-introduction/ CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Arabic,NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T133000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000715Z CREATED:20181221T170043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000715Z UID:12097-1548676800-1548682200@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:John of Litharb (d. 738 CE)\, On the Soul: A Previously Unknown Syriac Treatise and the New Light it sheds on Islamic Kalām\, on Byzantine Theology\, and on Syriac Psychology DESCRIPTION:John of Litharb is a fairly well-known Syriac author from the turn of the seventh-and-eighth centuries\, who participated in a robust circle of intellectual Christian theologians\, historians and philosophers. Although he is known to have authored several important works\, due to the accidents of manuscript transmission\, only one very short letter of his was thought to have survived to this day. I have recently discovered a significant work of his On the Soul\, completely overlooked in previous scholarship. I seek to understand this work and contextualize it in terms of the information it provides pertaining to three areas of research: 1) the emergence of the Islamic rational-theological school of Kalām\, long claimed by some scholars to have had Christian roots; 2) current Byzantine debates about the soul\, with special attention to the question of its ability to intercede for the living in its post-mortem state; 3) subsequent Syriac works on the soul\, and their relations to this source. \n  \nDr. Yonatan Moss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a BA in Classics and Linguistics from the Hebrew University and a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. In 2016 Moss published Incorruptible Bodies: Christology\, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity (University of California Press)\, which analyzes the sixth-century Julianist controversy about the body of Christ in its late ancient social and cultural contexts. Moss’ interests lie in the intersections between theology\, politics\, technology and language in the late ancient and early medieval domains of the Abrahamic religions. His two current large-scale projects concern 1) Christian Greek literary production in Byzantine Palestine; and 2) West Syriac theological and exegetical culture in early Islamic Mesopotamia. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”103″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/john-of-litharb-d-738-ce-on-the-soul-a-previously-unknown-syriac-treatise-and-the-new-light-it-sheds-on-islamic-kalam-on-byzantine-theology-and-on-syriac-psychology/ CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T140000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000353Z CREATED:20181106T214933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000353Z UID:11732-1542117600-1542117600@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:New Documentary Evidence for the Trade in Papers DESCRIPTION:Watermarked papers\, which served as media for Islamic manuscripts (codices and documents)\, were imported from Europe at least since the 13th century. The study of trade in papers brings us\, therefore\, to Global history. This presentation will focus on recently published research on late production papers which were dispatched to the Yemeni and Ethiopian market at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century through the networks of Bohra merchants\, whose Companies were mainly based in Bombay (Mumbai). \n Anne Regourd is a historian and an Arabist. She worked on various collections of documents found during excavations (Qusayr\, Southampton finds)\, and conserved in Museums (Edfou papyri; Rémondon collection\, The Louvre). She has also published on Epigraphy born on textiles. As a codicologist\, she worked on Yemeni and Ethiopian manuscripts\, and became specialised in paper studies. She intends to analyse documents of all types with a holistic approach to the objects. With this approach\, she has developed a methodology using papers themselves as a primary source for the study of paper trade\, see Regourd (ed.)\, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters\, Leiden\, E.J. Brill\, 2018. URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/new-documentary-evidence-for-the-trade-in-papers/ CATEGORIES:NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T133000 DTSTAMP:20210303T000847Z CREATED:20181016T234945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T000847Z UID:11278-1540297800-1540301400@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Imagined Wahhabis: Disentangling British and Indian Representations of Wahhabism in Colonial India DESCRIPTION:Throughout the nineteenth century\, the British in India feared a vast conspiracy of “Wahhabi” Muslim fanatics that threatened their imperial interests. While the British discourse on so-called Indian Wahhabis has received significant attention from academics\, the same is not true of an Indian Muslim discourse on Wahhabis. A closer analysis of the latter not only helps explain why the British used the specific term “Wahhabi” to refer to potential rebels\, but also reveals that Indian Muslim concerns about Wahhabis were tied to intra-Muslim debates about how to define Islam. \n  \nMohsin Ali is a PhD student in Islamic Studies. His interests include modern intellectual history an scholarly networks between South Asia and the Middle East. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nEvent Flyer URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/imagined-wahhabis-disentangling-british-and-indian-representations-of-wahhabism-in-colonial-india/ CATEGORIES:NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T180000 DTSTAMP:20180131T003207Z CREATED:20180131T003207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T003207Z UID:9270-1517848200-1517853600@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Rare Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nDr. Khalid Zahri is Assistant Director\, Curator\, and researcher for the manuscript collection of the Hassania Royal Library in Morocco. He travels widely to share his expertise in manuscript preservation and publication of glosses and commentaries. He has presented lectures and facilitated workshops across the Arab world\, Southeast Asia\, and Western Europe. He is an established expert in Muslim theology (kalām)\, Sufism\, and the methodology of Islamic law (uṣūl al-fiqh). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”70″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”] URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/rare-manuscripts-moroccan-royal-library-introduction-overview/ CATEGORIES:NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161128T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161128T133000 DTSTAMP:20210303T001001Z CREATED:20161110T005005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T001001Z UID:6029-1480334400-1480339800@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:New Methods in the Study of the Qur'an DESCRIPTION:The date and provenance of the Qur’an\, as with all the literary sources for early Islamic history\, have been the subject of scholarly disagreement for decades. So have the questions of whether the Qur’an had one author or multiple authors\, and whether the suras are random mishmashes of verses from different periods or somewhat coherent textual units. The field has been ripe for the application of new methods as a way out of the various deadlocks. This presentation gives an overview of some of the methods recently applied to the study of the Qur’an\, including stylometry (quantitative analysis of style)\, radiocarbon dating\, X-Ray Fluorescence imaging\, and a new take on traditional textual criticism. \nBehnam Sadeghi specializes in the early centuries of Islamic religion and teaches courses on pre-modern intellectual history. He has done research on the early history of the Qur’an\, the hadith literature\, and the early legal debates about women in the public space. His doctoral dissertation examined methods of textual interpretation applied in the Hanafi school of law in the pre-modern period. He has taught Approaching Religion (covering early Islam)\, and courses on pre-modern theology\, pre-modern law\, and the early history of the Qur’an. \nEvent sponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and co-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies\, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/new-methods-study-quran/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T180000 DTSTAMP:20161021T001056Z CREATED:20161021T001056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161021T001056Z UID:5921-1478795400-1478800800@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt DESCRIPTION:Presented by Omnia El Shakry\, Associate Professor of History at UC Davis What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together\, not as a problem\, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major\, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with classical Islamic concepts. El Shakry explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subje\nctivity in fields as diverse as psychology\, Islamic philosophy\, and the law. Rather than view Islamic discourses as hermetically sealed\, or traffic in dichotomous juxtapositions between East and West\, this talk focuses on the points of intersection and articulation between Islamic discourses and modern social scientific thought\, and between religious and secular ethics. The hybridization of psychoanalytic thought with Arab and Islamic discursive formations thus illustrates that the Arabic Freud\, like psychoanalysis itself\, was elaborated across the space of human difference. \n\nOmnia El Shakry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis\, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Middle East. She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt\, and editor of the multi-volume Gender and Sexuality in Islam. \n  \nCo-Sponsored By:\n\nUCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nNear Eastern Languages and Cultures\n\nParking available in Structure 2 for $12. \nEvent is free and open to the public. \n  URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/arabic-freud-psychoanalysis-islam-modern-egypt/ CATEGORIES:Arabic,NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T170000 DTSTAMP:20161004T224640Z CREATED:20161004T224640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T224640Z UID:5376-1477755000-1477760400@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Islam and Muslims in an Age of ISIS and Islamophobia DESCRIPTION:with\nProfessor Omid Safi\nDirector\, Islamic Studies Center\nDuke University \n\nA public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies-MRI Fund\nCo-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES)\nand the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) \nFifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11\, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both find themselves in a perilous state. No American community is viewed with more hostility and negativity. On one hand the community has had to perpetually defend itself against association with the vile attacks of groups like ISIS. On the other hand\, leading presidential candidates have talked about surveillance on the Muslim community\, allegations of Muslims’ disloyalty to America\, turning away Muslim refugees\, and shutting down mosques. Where do we go from here? How do we rebuild the bonds of the “Beloved community” that is the great hope of the American democratic experiment in this age of fear and fear-mongering? Omid Safi is a leading Muslim public intellectual. He is the Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center\, a leading institutions for research on Islam and promoting publicly accessible scholarship on Islam and Muslim communities worldwide. \nAbout the Speaker: \n \nOmid is a professor of Islamic Studies\, and specializes in contemporary Islamic thought and Islamic spirituality. He is the Chair for the Islamic Mysticism group at the American Academy of Religion\, the largest international organization devoted to the academic study of religion. Omid is an award-winning teacher and speaker\, and has been nominated ten times for professor of the year awards at Duke University\, University of North Carolina\, and Colgate University. \nLocation:\nUCLA Campus\, Young Hall CS 50 \nParking:\nPay-by-spaces are available on the lower level of Parking Structure 2\nFor directions click here\nAlternate parking available at Parking Structure 9 \nRegister Here! URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/islam-muslims-age-isis-islamophobia/ CATEGORIES:NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T121500 DTSTAMP:20161007T234902Z CREATED:20161007T234902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161007T234902Z UID:5462-1476101700-1476101700@islamicstudies.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Substantive Pull of Procedure in Early Islamic Courts: The Curious Case of Bughaybigha DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) \nIntisar 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 Advanced Study at Harvard. She has published the monograph\, Doubt in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press 2015)\, an edited volume\, Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought(with Michael Cook\, Asma Sayeed\, et al.\, Palgrave 2013)\, and articles on Islamic constitutionalism\, Islamic legal maxims\, and on the early history of the Qur’an text. She received a BA from Georgetown University\, a JD from Yale Law School\, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. She has conducted research in Egypt\, Iran\, Syria\, and elsewhere. \nCost : Free and open to the public \nJohanna Romero\n310-825-1181\ncnes@international.ucla.edu \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, International & Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA School of Law\, UCLA Islamic Studies URL:https://islamicstudies.ucla.edu/event/substantive-pull-procedure-early-islamic-courts-curious-case-bughaybigha/ CATEGORIES:NELC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR