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December 2025
- Dec 3, 2025 Book Talk: From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine Dec 3, 2025
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November 2025
- Nov 24, 2025 Book Talk: A Philosophical Treatise on Muslim Politics: Wisdom and Governance (2022) Nov 24, 2025
- Nov 13, 2025 B'Tselem 'Our Genocide' Nov 13, 2025
- Nov 13, 2025 Body as Archive: Gender, Borders and Witnessing Operas Nov 13, 2025
- Nov 6, 2025 Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora Nov 6, 2025
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November 2024
- Nov 17, 2024 Must the Imām be designated by his predecessor? The early development of the concept of waṣiyya in Shīʿī Islam Nov 17, 2024
- Nov 17, 2024 Taqīyah and Tawriyah: Dissimulation and the Art of Ambiguity Nov 17, 2024
- Nov 17, 2024 Can Pre-Islamic Architecture be Islamic Architecture? The Rock-Cut Tombs at Hegra Nov 17, 2024
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October 2024
- Oct 14, 2024 Islamic History Workshop - Singapore's Islamic Pasts: Alexanders in an Island Below the Winds Oct 14, 2024
- Oct 10, 2024 Tracing Bodies & Spaces: Art in Activism in South Kurdistan Oct 10, 2024
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September 2024
- Sep 11, 2024 Iranian Artist in Residence: Amitis Motevalli Sep 11, 2024
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April 2024
- Apr 25, 2024 Sharia Workshop | Taqiyah and Tawriyah: Dissimulation and the Art of Ambiguity Apr 25, 2024
- Apr 24, 2024 Islamic History Workshop: Teren Sevea Apr 24, 2024
- Apr 19, 2024 The Adab Colloquium: The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures Apr 19, 2024
- Apr 18, 2024 The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran Apr 18, 2024
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March 2024
- Mar 21, 2024 Applications Open | Arcapita Visiting Professor in Modern Arab Studies Mar 21, 2024
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February 2024
- Feb 29, 2024 The Adab Colloquium: The Divine Comedy and the Formation of Modern Adab Feb 29, 2024
- Feb 28, 2024 Islamic History Workshop: Sholeh Quinn Feb 28, 2024
- Feb 6, 2024 Of Door Knockers, Book Bindings, and Beehives: Material Culture in the Poetry of Sā’eb Tabrizi Feb 6, 2024
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January 2024
- Jan 20, 2024 Adab Colloquium: An Adib and His Poet of Choice: Nasr Alläh Munshi's (fl. ca. 540/1145-6) Quotations of Sana'i Ghaznavi (d. ca. 525/1131) Jan 20, 2024
- Jan 16, 2024 Announcement | Spring 2024 Mahdi Visiting Research Scholar Jan 16, 2024
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December 2023
- Dec 4, 2023 Sama Alshaibi | Re-imagining the Female Figure in War and Conflict Dec 4, 2023
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November 2023
- Nov 13, 2023 Sharia Workshop | A Tale of Two Tariqas: The Iraqi and Khurasani Shāfi? Communities in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries Nov 13, 2023
- Nov 9, 2023 The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy Nov 9, 2023
- Nov 9, 2023 Islamic History Workshop | Rhetoric, Emotion, and the Religious Education of "The Multitude" Nov 9, 2023
- Nov 8, 2023 Film Screening | Beirut: Eye of the Storm by Mai Masri Nov 8, 2023
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October 2023
- Oct 27, 2023 Book Talk | The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam Oct 27, 2023
- Oct 24, 2023 Sharia Workshop | Is There a ‘Jury’ in Islamic Law? The Twelve-Witness Lafīfiyya Testimony in Moroccan Judicial Practic Oct 24, 2023
- Oct 20, 2023 Translated Desires: Translation, Ibn Al-Arabi and the Multilingual Islamic Past Oct 20, 2023
- Oct 11, 2023 The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law Oct 11, 2023
- Oct 9, 2023 Sharia Workshop | The Obscure Appellate: The Egyptian Islamic Supreme Court, 1898-195 Oct 9, 2023
- Oct 4, 2023 Book Talk | Colonizing Kashmir: State Building Under Indian Occupation Oct 4, 2023
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September 2023
- Sep 28, 2023 Book Talk | Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future Sep 28, 2023
- Sep 28, 2023 Annabel Daou | Declarations from the Fleeting Present Sep 28, 2023
- Sep 27, 2023 Islamic History Workshop | A European Qur'an? The Muslim holy book in European culture Sep 27, 2023
- Sep 22, 2023 Adab Colloquium | Book Talk - 'Scripts for Wonder and World Making in Classical Arabic' Sep 22, 2023
- Sep 13, 2023 Civilizing Interventions | Humanitarianism and Gender Violence Sep 13, 2023
- Sep 1, 2023 Call for Applications | Visiting Fellow In Gender, Body Politics and Iranian Art Sep 1, 2023
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March 2023
- Mar 6, 2023 Spring 2023 CSMS Overview Mar 6, 2023
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January 2023
- Jan 31, 2023 Deadline Approaching | MA Programs Jan 31, 2023
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October 2022
- Oct 21, 2022 CSMS Hosts Grammy-Winning Artist in Sold Out Concert: Arooj Aftab Oct 21, 2022
- Oct 7, 2022 Scholars discuss the global significance of protests in Iran Oct 7, 2022
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September 2022
- Sep 15, 2022 MA Programs Course | Foundations to Islamic Studies and Muslim Societies Sep 15, 2022
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June 2022
- Jun 13, 2022 Announcement | CSMS Visiting Research Scholar Jun 13, 2022
- Jun 3, 2022 Art Series | Gender and Body Politics: Arts in the Middle East and Its Diasporas Jun 3, 2022
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April 2022
- Apr 14, 2022 Fellow Highlight | Omer Shah Apr 14, 2022
- Apr 8, 2022 Announcement | Gevork M. Avedissian Chair in Armenian History and Civilization Apr 8, 2022
- Apr 8, 2022 Announcement | Bulliet Assistant Professor of Islamic History Apr 8, 2022
- Apr 8, 2022 Student Highlight | Saarah Ahmed Apr 8, 2022
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February 2022
- Feb 7, 2022 Student Highlight: Cimone Firdaus Rajan Feb 7, 2022
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November 2021
- Nov 23, 2021 CSMS Remembers Etel Adnan (1925-2021) Nov 23, 2021
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October 2021
- Oct 2, 2021 Student Highlight: Yusuf Umrethwala Oct 2, 2021
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September 2021
- Sep 28, 2021 (10/22) Adab Colloquium: Proto-Secular Spaces? Mapping Infidelity in the Poetry of ʿAṭṭār Sep 28, 2021
- Sep 17, 2021 (9/24) Adab Colloquium: From Balāgha to ʾIntiqād: Politicising the Science of Literature in Modern Arabic Literary Though Sep 17, 2021
- Sep 17, 2021 (9/28) Readings in the Khalidiyya: EXCAVATIONS IN THE SCRAP PAPER BASKET Sep 17, 2021
- Sep 17, 2021 Port Cities and the Persianate (9/28) Sep 17, 2021
- Sep 13, 2021 Tomorrow's (9/14) Event: Will the Real Jihadi Please Stand Up? Or, the War on Terror is Dead, Long Live the War on Terror Sep 13, 2021
- August 2021
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July 2021
- Jul 22, 2021 MIPSTERZ Virtual Muslim Futurism Conference Call for Abstracts (August 1) Jul 22, 2021
- Jul 15, 2021 MSA: Interested in Eid al Adha 2021 prayers at Columbia? Jul 15, 2021
- Jul 15, 2021 Event: Celebrating the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project (2018-2021) Jul 15, 2021
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May 2021
- May 7, 2021 Student Profile Update: Shabbir Agha Abbas May 7, 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 29, 2021 RESCHEDULED: April 20: Drawing the Isolated Mosque with Ziad Jamaleddine Mar 29, 2021
- Mar 26, 2021 Student Highlight: Sumaiya Zama Mar 26, 2021
- Mar 19, 2021 CANCELLED: March 31: Proto-Secular Spaces? Mapping Infidelity in the Poetry of ʿAṭṭār Mar 19, 2021
- Mar 15, 2021 March 19: Of Waqfs and Worms: The Khalidiyya Through its Manuscript Notes Mar 15, 2021
- Mar 5, 2021 Video Recording: Malcolm's Worldmaking Practice Mar 5, 2021
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February 2021
- Feb 22, 2021 February 23: "Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī: Economics of Happiness" with Sami Al-Daghistani Feb 22, 2021
- Feb 11, 2021 February 22: Malcolm's Worldmaking Practice: Reclaiming his Local and Global Legacy Feb 11, 2021
- Feb 4, 2021 February 18: Shari'a Workshop: Sahih al-Bukhari's Criteria Feb 4, 2021
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January 2021
- Jan 26, 2021 Tomorrow: CSMS Student Group Social Jan 26, 2021
- Jan 20, 2021 March 12: Making a Hidden Collection Visible: Columbia’s Collection of Muslim World Manuscripts Jan 20, 2021
- Jan 18, 2021 February 26: Adab Colloquium with Presenter Maryam Wasif Khan and Discussant Jennifer Dubrow Jan 18, 2021
- Jan 14, 2021 February 16: Readings in the Khalidiyya: Libraries in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham Jan 14, 2021
- Jan 12, 2021 January 29: Adab Colloquium with Presenter Murat Umut Inan and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano Jan 12, 2021
- Jan 8, 2021 January 28: Shari'a Workshop: Between Kazan and Kashghar Jan 8, 2021
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December 2020
- Dec 30, 2020 CSMS Year in Review Dec 30, 2020
- Dec 16, 2020 Special Issue on the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project Dec 16, 2020
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November 2020
- Nov 17, 2020 November 24: A Reading and Conversation with Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Nov 17, 2020
- Nov 3, 2020 Emergency Architecture and Planning: Recovering Beirut Post-Explosion Nov 3, 2020
- Nov 2, 2020 November 12: Mawlid 2020 Nov 2, 2020
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October 2020
- Oct 16, 2020 Aga Khan Program Lecture: Nasser Rabbat, “History’s Currency: The Afterlife of al-Maqrizi’s Khitat” Oct 16, 2020
- Oct 7, 2020 October 22: Sharia Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia Oct 7, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 27, 2020 Now Online: A Digital Exhibition of treasures of the art of the book from Columbia University’s Manuscript Collection Sep 27, 2020
- Sep 24, 2020 Film Screening and Q&A: "Islam De Cuba" Sep 24, 2020
- Sep 22, 2020 Hisham Aidi awarded a Soros Equality Fellowship Sep 22, 2020
- Sep 18, 2020 October 5: Readings in the Khalidiyya Sep 18, 2020
- Sep 15, 2020 September 24: Roundtable Discussion - New Work in Shari'a Sep 15, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 31, 2020 Student Profile: Zeinab Azarbadegan Aug 31, 2020
- Aug 31, 2020 The Adab Colloquium: Workshop with Mana Kia and Sunil Sharma Aug 31, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 16, 2020 Matthew L. Keegan: The Stakes of Editing the Unruly Past Jul 16, 2020
- Jul 1, 2020 Wisdom Encoded: The Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna Jul 1, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 12, 2020 Video Recording: New Moon Rising Concert Jun 12, 2020
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May 2020
- May 20, 2020 New Moon Rising: American Muslim Artists Perform May 20, 2020
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April 2020
- Apr 27, 2020 Elaine van Dalen: Medical Perspectives on Epidemics in the Classical Islamic World Apr 27, 2020
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February 2020
- Feb 10, 2020 CSMS Events - Spring 2020 Feb 10, 2020
- Feb 7, 2020 Iraqi Studies Conference: Past, Present, and Future Feb 7, 2020
- Feb 6, 2020 Columbia University launches a Dual Degree Program with Aga Khan University Feb 6, 2020
- Feb 5, 2020 Lecture: Fiction as Islamic Historiographical Alterity by Shazad Bashir Feb 5, 2020
- Feb 1, 2020 Lecture: Conservation and Restoration Documentation as a Source in Architectural History Feb 1, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 28, 2020 LECTURE POSTPONED: "What is Man in Classical Arabic Philosophy?" Jan 28, 2020
- Jan 24, 2020 Kathryn Spellman Poots discusses Islam and Gender in the 21st Century on "Trending Globally" Podcast Jan 24, 2020
- Jan 20, 2020 The Making of "Lissa": Comics, Gender, and Medicine in the Arab world Jan 20, 2020
- Jan 13, 2020 Sharīʿa Workshop with Yossef Rapoport: Tribal Villages in Mamluk Palestine Jan 13, 2020
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December 2019
- Dec 10, 2019 Hiba Bou Akar's "For the War Yet to Come" wins 2019 Nikkie Keddie Book Award, Anthony Leeds Prize Dec 10, 2019
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November 2019
- Nov 2, 2019 Book Launch: Gender, Governance and Islam Nov 2, 2019
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October 2019
- Oct 22, 2019 Lecture: Defeated Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies Oct 22, 2019
- Oct 13, 2019 Global Scholars Program in Tunis and Morocco: Islam and the Modern World Oct 13, 2019
- Oct 3, 2019 Job Posting: Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies Oct 3, 2019
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September 2019
- Sep 30, 2019 The Muslim World Manuscript Project: A Codicology Workshop Sep 30, 2019
- Sep 17, 2019 Al-Hariri's 12th-Century Trickster Tales and the Islamic Archive Sep 17, 2019
- Sep 9, 2019 Lecture Series: Re-Approaching Architecture of the Lands of Islam Sep 9, 2019
- Sep 4, 2019 Foundation to Islamic Studies and Muslim Societies - Fall 2019 Sep 4, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 27, 2019 Upcoming Lecture and Seminar by Professor Sarah Bowen Savant Aug 27, 2019
- Aug 2, 2019 CSMS Awarded Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant Aug 2, 2019
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May 2019
- May 4, 2019 Event Notice: A Lecture by Professor James A. Millward May 4, 2019
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April 2019
- Apr 22, 2019 Contact and Convergence: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Islamic Studies Apr 22, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 26, 2019 Dark Water, Burning World: The Island of Lesbos and the Boats of Syria Mar 26, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 14, 2019 Iraqi Archives in Exile: A presentation by Rebecca Abby Whiting Feb 14, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 25, 2019 Religion, Media, and the Digital Turn: A Report by Christopher D. Cantwell and Hussein Rashid Jan 25, 2019
- Jan 18, 2019 Bibliotheca Arabica: The Past and Future of Arabic Bibliography (Lecture by Boris Liebrenz) Jan 18, 2019
- Jan 14, 2019 Is Occult Science Science? A lecture by Matthew Melvin-Koushki Jan 14, 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 20, 2018 Congratulations to Zeynep Çelik Dec 20, 2018
- Dec 4, 2018 Shari’a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology Dec 4, 2018
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November 2018
- Nov 26, 2018 Shari’a Workshop: Leor Halevi Nov 26, 2018
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October 2018
- Oct 22, 2018 Imagining & Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World Oct 22, 2018
- Oct 16, 2018 The Second-Hand Binding: Gallery talk by Matthew Gilman Oct 16, 2018
- Oct 10, 2018 Celebrating Recent Work by Wael Hallaq Oct 10, 2018
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September 2018
- Sep 19, 2018 Divine Words, Female Voices: Conversation and Book Launch with Dr. Jerusha Tanner Rhodes Sep 19, 2018
- Sep 11, 2018 Open to Reason: Souleymane Bachir Diagne in conversation with Katherine Ewing, Nabeel Hamid, and Christia Mercer Sep 11, 2018
- Sep 6, 2018 Sharia Workshop: Imperialist Feminism and Islamic Law Sep 6, 2018
- Sep 6, 2018 Professor Ehsan Yarshater (1920-2018) Sep 6, 2018
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August 2018
- Aug 22, 2018 Foundation to Islamic Studies and Muslim Societies Aug 22, 2018
- Aug 20, 2018 What we CAN do when there's nothing to be done Aug 20, 2018
- Aug 13, 2018 Upcoming: In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding, ca. 1575-1890 Aug 13, 2018
- Aug 8, 2018 Upcoming: Ahmed Mater Speaks About His Mecca’s Journeys Aug 8, 2018
- Aug 6, 2018 "Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition" by Souleymane Bachir Diagne Aug 6, 2018
- Aug 6, 2018 "Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology" by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey Aug 6, 2018
- Aug 1, 2018 New Course Proposed by CSMS Faculty Members Funded by Columbia Global Scholars Program Aug 1, 2018
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July 2018
- Jul 30, 2018 "Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology" by Brinkley Messick Jul 30, 2018