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East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars

In this joint seminar with the Asian Studies Centre, Dr Erin MB O’Halloran, University of Cambridge, presents her new book 'East of Empire' (2025 Stanford University Press). Chaired by Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony’s College).

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Houthis: From Local Insurgents to a Regional Actor - Exploiting Global Solidarities

Yasmeen Eryani contributing to Session 3: Reverberations of Resistance, at a November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford / SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.

Religious Actors and Transnational Solidarity: The question of Palestine

Prof. Raihan Ismail in Session 2: Islamist and Religious Currents: Networks of Influence and Ideology, at November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford/SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.

Whatever happened to Algerian Islamism?

Prof. Michael Willis in Session 2: Islamist and Religious Currents: Networks of Influence and Ideology, at November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford/SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.

Saudi Arabia and Iran: Transnational Shifts and Regional Order

Prof. Simon Mabon contributing to Session 1: Intra-Muslim relations and Geopolitical Transformation, at a November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford/SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.

Iran is Far Less Interested in Resistance than You are Made to Believe

Prof. Maryam Alemzadeh in Session 1: Intra-Muslim relations and Geopolitical Transformation, at a November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford/SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.

The 'Day After' October 7 and Geopolitical Transformations in the Wider Arab World Region

Dr Hisham Hellyer contributing to Session 1: Intra-Muslim relations & Geopolitical Transformation at a November 2024 Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford/SEPAD, Lancaster University workshop: Transnational Islamic Movements: Global and Local Realities.

Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba'a Massacre Ten Years On

This talk is the closing plenary address given by Professor S Sayyid, University of Leeds the final part of a 2-day online academic conference convened on 15-16 August 2023 by Dr Usaama al-Azami.

The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood

Journalist and scholar, Dr Ezgi Başaran, presents her book which traces the links between the AKP, Tunisia’s Ennahda, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring.

The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Professor Malika Zeghal (Harvard University) presents her new book 'The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa', an innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam.

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

Professor Mohammad Khalil scrutinises the claim by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion

Friendship

Associate Professor Nuha al-Sha’ar speaking on ‘Friendship in Islamic Ethical Political Thought: Foundations and Modern Implications’ // Associate Professor SherAli Tareen speaking on ‘Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire’

The Left

Fadi Bardawil speaking on ‘Nation, Class, Community: Milestones on the path of the 1960s Lebanese New Left’. Nadia Bou Ali speaking on ‘Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? Mehdi Amel’s Critique of Edward Said’.

Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective

A new theoretical framework for how democracy can emerge in the Middle East and wider Muslim world, where political conflicts over religion often predominate.

Dissent

Valerie Hoffman speaking on Charges of Radicalism: Ibāḍī–Wahhābī Polemics and Articulations of Identity.

Religion II

Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University) speaking on 'Decolonizing the category of religion' and Dr Rushain Abbasi (Stanford University) speaking on 'Regulating Religion in Premodern Islamic Governance'.

Law

Professor Mohammad Fadel speaking on ‘The Protean Sovereign of Sunni Law’ and Professor Lena Salaymeh speaking on ‘Reconsidering the Political in Premodern Islam.'

Violence

Nesrine Badawi speaking on ‘Debating Militancy in the Modern World’ and Murad Idris speaking on ‘Theorizing Colonialism, Capitalism, and Violence in an Islamist Key.'

Dr. Rafal K. Stepien, ‘On Numen in Antinomianism, or Reading Religion in Irreligion’

Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021

Sovereignty

Neguin Yavari speaking on ‘Islamic imperatives and Islamic rulers’, Samy Ayoub speaking on ‘Law and the Exercise of Power: Debates on Political Legitimacy and Authority in the 19th - 20th centuries Egypt’.

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