February 18: Shari'a Workshop: Sahih al-Bukhari's Criteria

Thursday, February 18, 2021, 4:00 PM EST

Register for the Zoom webinar here.

In this workshop, Issam Eido and Mohammed T. Safi will discuss their paper entitled “Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī's Criteria: An Epistemological Perspective.” In an innovative study of the Hadith corpus, the early records of statements and actions that, following the Qur’an, represent the second “source” for the Sharia, the authors consider connections between Islamic methods and conceptions and those of contemporary western thought on “testimony." They will be joined by Jonathan Brown, Scott Lucas, and Asma Sayeed.

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March 12: Making a Hidden Collection Visible: Columbia’s Collection of Muslim World Manuscripts

Friday, March 12, 2021, 1:00 PM EST

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Join us in celebrating the publication of this special issue of the journal Philological Encounters, publicizing the contents and importance of Columbia’s collection of manuscripts from the Islamic world. The event will feature the authors from the special issue as well as two discussants, Evyn Kropf (U Michigan) and Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin).

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The contributors:

  • Mohammad Sadegh Ansari (SUNY Geneseo)

  • Zeinab Azarbadegan (Columbia)

  • Trevor Brabyn (Independent)

  • Kaoukab Chebaro (Columbia)

  • Alexandre Roberts (USC)

  • Avinoam Shalem (Columbia)

  • Jane Rodgers Siegel (Columbia)

  • Tunç Şen (Columbia)

February 26: Adab Colloquium with Presenter Maryam Wasif Khan and Discussant Jennifer Dubrow

Friday, February 26, 2021, 1:10 PM - 3:00 PM EST

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In this colloquium, Maryam Wasif Khan will discuss a chapter from her book, Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms (Fordham, 2021). The book argues for a new history of Urdu prose fiction, one that takes into account its orientalist pasts and its religio-populist present. Chapter 4, “Mujāhid/Martyr,” suggests that the Progressive Writers’ Movement, though well-known to scholars of Urdu had a relatively minor impact on its literary development when compared to the bestselling, popular novels of writers such as Rashid ul-Kheiri, Nasim Hijazi and Razia Butt. The strident religio-nationalist nature of these novels, then, is what has shaped Urdu prose fiction in our present moment.

Learn more about the Adab Colloquium at MEI here.

If you are interested in attending this event please download the pre-circulated reading.

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