| Dissent |
Valerie Hoffman speaking on Charges of Radicalism: Ibāḍī–Wahhābī Polemics and Articulations of Identity. |
Valerie Hoffman, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
23 December, 2022 |
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| In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East |
Aaron Rock-Singer presents their latest book "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East". |
Aaron Rock-Singer, Usaama al-Azami |
6 December, 2022 |
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| 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'. |
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
15 July, 2022 |
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| 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.' |
Nesrine Badawi, Murad Idris, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
8 April, 2022 |
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| 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’. |
Neguin Yavari, Samy Ayoub, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
2 March, 2022 |
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| Religion |
Madawi al-Rasheed speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”. Pascal Menoret speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’. |
Madawi al-Rasheed, Pascal Menoret, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
2 March, 2022 |
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| Caliphate |
Elizabeth Alexandrin speaking on ‘Empire of the End Time: Fāṭimid Sovereignties in the 4th Century AH/11th Century CE’. Hüseyin Yilmaz speaking on ‘The Ottomans and the Question of the Caliphate'. |
Elizabeth Alexandrin, Hüseyin Yilmaz, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
1 March, 2022 |
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| Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy |
Join us as we listen to Dr Usaama al-Azami (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) in conversation about his new book, 'Islam and the Arab Revolutions, the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy'. |
Usaama al-Azami, Michael Willis |
31 January, 2022 |
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| Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East |
MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami |
4 November, 2021 |
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| Booktalk episode 6: Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis |
For our sixth episode of MEC Booktalk, guest author David Warren (Washington University in St Louis) discusses his recent book, Rivals in the Gulf, published by Routledge in January 2021. |
David Warren, Usaama al-Azami |
12 April, 2021 |
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| The Place of Religion After the Uprisings |
Dr. Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic) and Professor Nadia Oweidat (Kansas State University) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Shadi Hamid, Nadia Oweidat, Usaama al-Azami |
26 February, 2021 |
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| The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought |
Join us for the fourth MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Andrew March about his new book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, published by Harvard University Press, 2021 |
Usaama al-Azami, Andrew March |
16 February, 2021 |
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| Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition |
Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. |
Ahmed El Shamsy, Usaama al-Azami |
7 February, 2021 |
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| Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt |
Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University) editor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Dalia Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi, Usaama al-Azami |
10 November, 2020 |
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| Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform |
Professor Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University, gives a talk for the Middle East seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Jonathan Brown, Usaama al-Azami |
29 January, 2020 |
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