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Asian Studies Centre

Economic Mobility, Islamic Piety and Caste: Ashrafization in Pakistani Punjab

Muhammad Ali Jan speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 1 May 2018.
Asian Studies Centre

The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturgical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)

Yasser Arafath speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 10 October 2017
Asian Studies Centre

Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India

Teena Purohit speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 30 May 2017
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Qur'an as literature

A principal reason for why the Qur'an managed to establish itself as a text believed to constitute divine revelation is that it is compelling literature. How do Islamic and modern Western scholars approach the Qur'an's literary dimension?
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Confirming and clarifying: The Qur'an in conversation with earlier Judaeo-Christian traditions

The Qur'an's original addressees must have been familiar with earlier Jewish and Christian traditions, which the Qur'an claims both to "confirm" and to "clarify".
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Rekindling Prophecy: The Qur'an in its historical milieu.

This second episode examines the historical context in which the material now collected in the Qur'an was first promulgated. Special attention is paid to the various groups of addressees who figure in the Qur'an.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Hovering about the Qur'an without entering into it? On the academic study of the Qur'an.

What does it mean to study the Qur'an historically? In this initial episode we consider how historically oriented research on the Qur'an relates to religious belief and to traditional Islamic scriptural interpretation.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past and the Present

An expert panel discusses the phenomenon of ethnicisation of religious identifications focussing especially on the nexus of religious, ethnic and national identifications in colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial settings from Ireland to South Asia.
Oxford LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) History Month Lectures

What does it mean to be LGBT+ today?

2018's annual lecture, organised by the LGBT+ Staff Network, will be delivered by Asad Dhunna, a London based marketing and communications director. Asad has written for various publications including the Guardian and the Huffington Post.
Mansfield College

Representing the Muslim in America

Linda Moreno gives a talk for the Mansfield College seminar series.
Middle East Centre

Book Launch: Islam: The Essentials

Professor Tariq Ramadan (St Antony's College) launches his new book; Islam: The Essentials on May 9th 2017.
Asian Studies Centre

The Bureaucratisation of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Outlines of a Collaborative Research Project

Dominik M. Müller speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar.
Middle East Centre

Jews, Muslims, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Morocco

Jessica Maya Marglin (University of Southern California) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre on 2nd March 2017.
Middle East Centre

Islam in Europe

Part of the Middle East Centre Seminar Series, with Nilüfer Göle, Tariq Modood and Tariq Ramadan (chair). Held on 17th February 2017.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Tombstone of a Muslim girl

On what were people’s feelings about death and the dead in North Africa a thousand years ago? What does this tombstone tell us? With Professor Julia Bray, Arabic, University of Oxford.
Middle East Centre

Book launch: Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt

Roundtable Discussion and Launch of Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt by Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) with Morgan Clarke (University of Oxford). The event will be chaired by Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford).
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Faith and Superstition from an Islamic Perspective

In light of the Power and Protection Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, this talk addresses the fundamental principles of faith, and how the Islamic tradition deals with and defines superstition.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Concept of 'Umma' in Early Islam

Fred Donner (University of Chicago) addresses the nebulous, often misunderstood concept of 'umma' in early Islam
Free Speech Debate

Irshad Manji on Allah, Liberty and Love

The director of the Moral Courage Project says so-called “respect” for Muslims is often lined with fear and “low expectations” of those practising the faith.
Asian Studies Centre

Fighting Extremism Through Islamic Moderation

Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir (Menteri Besar - Chief Minister - of Perak, Malaysia) speaks at St Antony's College

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