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30 results for "2021 Conference"

Rula Jurdi Abisaab

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Rula Jurdi Abisaab is a Professor of Islamic History at McGill University with a focus on Safavid Iran and Twelver Shi'ism. Her scholarship deals with Twelver Shi'a doctrinal, legal and juristic developments during the late medieval period, and their...

Yahia Baiza

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Dr Yahia Baiza is a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, United Kingdom, researching education, history, and Islamic and Afghanistan studies, as well as the study of refugee and diaspora communities in Europe, and manuscript...

2021 Schedule

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The Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs presents A Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’ism Monday, April 5th to Thursday, April 8th, 2021 | 20+ Speakers, 4 Panels A...

2021 Keynote Address

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"Shi'ism: Unity and Diversity" Monday April 5th, 11:00am-12:15PM EDT. Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University, will begin the four-day symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi'ism...

Karen Ruffle

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Karen Ruffle is Associate Professor in the Departments of Historical Studies and Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She has widely published articles focusing on devotional texts, ritual practice, and Shiʿi material practices in South Asia...

Nicholas Boylston

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Dr. Nicholas Boylston, Assistant Professor at Seattle University, is a scholar of Islamic Studies focusing on Shii Studies, Quranic Studies, Sufism and Persian literature. He received his BA from Harvard College, his MA from the University of Tehran, and...

Hussein Kalout

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Hussein Kalout is a Political Scientist, Professor of International Relations, Member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard International Review, and Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Previously he was a Fellow at the Weatherhead...

Deniz Coşan Eke

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Deniz Cosan Eke (Dr. phil.) works as a post-doc researcher in the Alevi Theological Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria. She received her BA and first MSc in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in Turkey. She completed...

Mustafa Şen

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Mustafa Şen is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He received his PhD in Sociology from METU with the thesis entitled “Turkish Entrepreneurs in Central Asia: The Case of...

SeyedAmirHossein Asghari

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SeyedAmirHossein Asghari is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington. He will defend his dissertation “Philosophy and Sufism in the Contemporary Shia Seminary” in May 2022 and will...

Hassan Abbas

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Hassan Abbas is Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the Near East South Asia Strategic Studies Centre (NESA), National Defense University in Washington DC.

He serves as a senior advisor at the Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at...

Mohammad Sagha

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Mohammad Sagha (PhD, University of Chicago) is a postdoctoral Division of Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago where he teaches courses on Islam, history, global reading cultures, and politics. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the...