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THE ADAB COLLOQUIUM: Two Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetr
Dec
9
1:10 PM13:10
Adab Colloquium

THE ADAB COLLOQUIUM: Two Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetr

Several new poems by sixth-/twelfth-century Christian poets are now available in the recently rediscovered manuscript of Abū al-Maʿālī’s Zīnat al-Dahr. It is now possible to triangulate between ʿImād al-Dīn, who used Abū al-Maʿālī as a source, and several poems by Christians addressed to Muslims and vice versa, to reconstruct the space for Christian participation in late Abbasid literary discourse.

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The Minbar of the Mosque of the Andalusīs in Fez: An Object Lesson in Interconnected Histories
Dec
8
4:10 PM16:10
Islamic History Workshop

The Minbar of the Mosque of the Andalusīs in Fez: An Object Lesson in Interconnected Histories

The Middle East Institute at Columbia University cordially invites you to attend the newest session of its new Islamic History Workshop. The workshops regularly feature leading scholars of Islamic history from across periods and regions for detailed discussions of their current research.

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SHARIA WORKSHOP | Necessity, Legal Reasoning, and Value
Nov
18
4:10 PM16:10
Sharia Workshop, Workshop

SHARIA WORKSHOP | Necessity, Legal Reasoning, and Value

In this article, I provide an account of juristic discourses from the fifth/eleventh through tenth/sixteenth centuries on the hypothetical case of a starving person taking another’s food or property across four Sunnī schools of law. Examination of juristic discourses on this hypothetical case of necessity provides insight into an active, creative debate about the ethical parameters of the law, and how this-worldly law interacts with the hereafter law. It also provides insight into how jurists engaged in and debated legal methodology and its application to extreme (and often also, hard) cases.

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The Adab Colloquium: Manifestations of Adab in Timurid Public Space
Nov
2
1:00 PM13:00
Adab Colloquium

The Adab Colloquium: Manifestations of Adab in Timurid Public Space

Adab manifests itself in various ways in the works of Timurid intellectuals. Asil al-din Wâiz presents it as an all-encompassing concept in 1450s. Nawars works from in 1490s suggest that its main function was ensuring the social cohesion. Finally, Käshifi makes it the basis basis of his political philosophy around the 1500s.

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SHARIA WORKSHOP | A Legal Concept in Motion: The ‘Spreader of Corruption’ (sā‘ī bi’l-fesād) from Qarakhanid to Ottoman Jurisprudence
Oct
26
4:10 PM16:10
Sharia Workshop

SHARIA WORKSHOP | A Legal Concept in Motion: The ‘Spreader of Corruption’ (sā‘ī bi’l-fesād) from Qarakhanid to Ottoman Jurisprudence

The MEI offers regular programing on topics related to Islamic law through its “Sharīʿa Workshop,” a series launched in 2015. The workshop brings together faculty and graduate students from Columbia and other universities in the region for intensive discussions of new research by leading specialists invited from the US and abroad.

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Exhibit of Manuscripts on Islamic Science: Opening Reception
Oct
18
6:00 PM18:00
Happening at Columbia

Exhibit of Manuscripts on Islamic Science: Opening Reception

October 18th, 6pm - 8pm
“Science, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science” is an exhibit that showcases over 90 manuscripts, instruments and objects from the Muslim World Manuscript collection housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the Columbia University Libraries.

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