On November 10th, ISRN held an event entitled “The Journey of Love: How Five Women Founded the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network,” featuring our speaker Nurhayat Sultan and distinguished guests Dr. Ronan Lee and Dr. Thomas Arcaro. See video here.
Recent Alumni Feature Sulaiman Kabia Islamic Studies graduate Sulaiman Kabia, serves as a Special Projects Officer in the Army Reserves and was recently accepted into the Master of Divinity in Islamic Chaplaincy program at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Upon completion of the program, he will be an Active Duty Chaplain in the U.S…. Continue reading…
In this talk, Dr. Carter will share his fascinating study of the transatlantic spiritual network of African-American and West African Muslims who are members of the Mustafawi Tariqa (Sufi Path). These Muslims rely on dhikr (remembrance of God) as a spiritual technology and deploy certain modes of West African Islamic… Continue reading…
Please join us for a presentation by speaker Dr. Robert Wiley, “The Psychology of Written Language: Insights from Teaching and Studying Arabic” Nursing and Instructional Building, 1007 Walker Ave., Room 106 Tuesday, Oct. 25, 5:30pm Dr. Wiley is Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Psychology Program and the Director… Continue reading…
Alyssa Gabbay’s book Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020) received an Honorable Mention for the Latifeh Yarshater Award from the Association for Iranian Studies. The purpose of the award is to encourage scholarship in Iranian Studies focused… Continue reading…
March 25, 4pm – 5pm at EUC, Maple Lecture given by Dr. Alyssa Gabbay of UNCG
Tuesday, October 8, 6-7 pm, Faculty Center “Women Outside Their Apartments: A Moroccan Feminist’s Cinematic Vision” A lecture by Dr. Florence Martin, Goucher College Moroccan, Muslim, feminist pioneer filmmaker Farida Benlyazid has always been subversive. Looking at the arc of her work from her auto-fiction A Door to the Sky (1988) to… Continue reading…
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 5:30-6:30pm, Faculty Center “‘Unintelligible Babel’: How Enslaved Muslims Used Arabic to Pursue Freedom” A lecture by Ayla Amon, Smithsonian Institution Of the more than 12.5 million enslaved Africans transported to the New World during the transatlantic slave trade, estimates suggest that at least 25% were Muslim. They… Continue reading…