• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Wednesdays at 17:00
• Web Address: http://www.oxcis.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Religious dress
  The Right Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Palestine/Israel: history is undecided...
  Ambassador Afif Safieh

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Special Lecture: Dialogue in action: the witness of St Francis of Assisi
  Cardinal Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall: Qur’an translator and novelist’
  Dr Peter Clark (SOAS)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'The right to freedom of religion: cases and controversies’
  The Lord Pannick QC (Distinguished Fellow)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Recognising the true Lord: a Confucian approach to Islamic theology in the writings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Liu Zhi’
  Dr James Frankel (Hong Kong)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Al-Azhar and the Ulama’
  Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Speculative men: thinking analogically about Islam and Christian sectarianism in seventeenth and eighteenth century England’
  Professor Ros Ballaster

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘1918: The fall of the Ottomans and the beginning of a century of conflict’
  Professor Eugene Rogan

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'The moral economy: why good incentives are no substitutes for good citizens’
  Professor Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The formation of a Turco-Islamic world region in and around the Oipchaq Steppe in the early modern age’
  Dr Joo-Yup Lee (Toronto )

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Humanitarianism, gender and religion in forced migration’
  Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'Islamic charities since the 1970s: a record of growth and suppression’
  Mr Jonathan Benthall (UCL)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘”Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology and trade in Eastern Ethiopia’
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The world in the year 1000: new connections within and beyond the Islamic world’
  Professor Valerie Hansen (Yale)

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Jeddah 100 years ago…through the French lense’
  Dr Louis Blin (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Russian conquest of Central Asia in Persianate historiography’
  Dr Alexander Morrison

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The political legacy of Islamic conquest’
  Dr Faisal Z. Ahmed (Princeton )

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The politics of Islamic law: colonialism, mobility, translation’
  Dr Iza Hussin (Cambridge)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Siyasa Shari-iyya: some insights from nineteenth-century Egypt’
  Professor Khaled Fahmy (American University of Cairo )

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology of Islamisation and trade in Eastern Ethiopia
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The ontological (in)security of similarity: Islamism in Saudi foreign policy
  Dr May Darwich (Durham)

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - History in tables: Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī's “synoptic account” of the Timurid history and its complete manuscript
  Dr İlker Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Mongol empire and Islamisation
  Professor Andrew Peacock (St Andrews)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - British-Islamic identity: third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
  Dr Aminul Hoque (Goldsmiths)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The making of Ottoman kingship at the dawn of empire
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Qur’an in English: challenges and choices for Surat an-Nisa
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Islamization and the formation of a vernacular tradition: Muslim funerary monuments in 15th-century northern Sumatra
  R. Michael Feener (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'What a "Textual Forensics" Might Tell us about How Arabic Writers Conserved the Past (ca. 900-1200)'
  Sarah Savant

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: Abd al-Halim Mahmud’s Search for a Sufi Master'
  Hatsuki Aishima

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - '"A most thrilling drama hastening to a tragic end": The Spectacle of Ottoman Decline in Early Twentieth-Century India'
  Faridah Zaman

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'Another Genealogy of Critique: On Islam and Reason'
  Irfan Ahmad

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - AI: simulation and dissimulation
  Dr Yaqub Chaudhary (Cambridge Muslim College)

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Saudi Arabia and the rise and fall of Political Islam
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Bernard Haykel (Princeton)

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamist transformations after the Arab Uprisings: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement
  Dr Rory McCarthy (Durham)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Archives and archival sensibilities in medieval Arabic Historiography
  Dr Fozia Bora (Leeds)

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Money, markets and monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and political economy of the Middle East
  Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS)

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islam, liberalism and national identity: Lessons from British Islamic institutions
  Dr Stephen H. Jones (Birmingham)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Counting Shaykhs in hadith collections
  Professor Christopher Melchert

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Using field experiments to learn about religious behavior
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Adam Osman (Illinois (Urbana-Champaign))

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nana Asma’u (d. 1864): The erudite poet and mystic of the Sokoto Caliphate
  Dr Minlib Dallh

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Book talk: Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State)
• 17:00 - Alchemical interpretations of the Qur’an in the Shudhūr al-dhahab (Shards of Gold) and its commentaries
  Dr Richard Todd (Birmingham)

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - History on the Margins: The Problem of Persian Historiography in the Deccan Sultanates
  Dr Roy Fischel (Department of History, SOAS)

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Abrahamic Interpretations of the Sacrifice of Abraham’s Son
  Dr Edward Kessler MBE (Founder-President of the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reflections on the Arab Spring Ten Years On
  Sir Geoffrey Adams KCMG (British Ambassador to Egypt (2018-2021))

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Smallpox, Polio, and Muslim "Resistance": reconsidering trust in global health
  Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya (York)

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Daulat, Saltanat and the Sultan in the Mughal and Ottoman Worlds
  Dr Gagan Sood (Department of International History, LSE)

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How to Overcome Global Crises: Climate Change and Pandemics
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Nelson Mandela Fellow)

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and the Strategic Global Rivalry over Energy: Illustrations from Afghanistan
  Dr Mohammad Talib (OCIS)

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and Child Rights: The Role of Religion in the Development of the Law
  Justice Imman Ali (Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Appellate Division)

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Truth, Knowledge, and Power in Islam Before the Nineteenth Century: A Heuristic Perspective on the Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Caliph, Sultan and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
  Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Mr Simon Collis (Former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2015-20))

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Quest for Reforms of Islamic Systems of Education in Nigeria
  Professor Kabiru Chafe (Ahmadu Bello University)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Awliya Domes in Hadramut, Yemen (2019-2021)
  Professor Salma Damluji (American University of Beirut)

Wednesday 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Continuity and Change in US Strategy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World
  Professor Vali Nasr (Johns Hopkins University)

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
  Dr Anne Wolf (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Righteous Demagogues: The Moral Economy of Populism
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Turkey’s Economic Development and Political Economy since 1980
  Professor Şevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Actualizing Ideal Islam: Principles of Islamic Revival at the Dawn of Modernity
  Dr Fitzroy Morrisey (All Souls, Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians Still Don’t Have a State, and Why Their Need is More Urgent Than Ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians still don't have a State, and why their need is more urgent than ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Prohibition, National Regulations and International Norms
  Dr Elife Biçer-Deveci (Universität Bern)

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Socialism: Radical Individuality and Equality?
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syria: The glory and the agony
  Ghayth Armanazi (Former Ambassador of the Arab League)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - States of subsistence: the politics of bread in contemporary Jordan
  Jose Ciro Martinez (University of York)

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies
  Salma Mousa (Yale University)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Religious rights and freedom of speech
  Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (Former President of the Supreme Court)

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Climate policy in Muslim societies
  Adil Najam (Boston University)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Varieties of Islamic constitutionalism
  Clark B. Lombardi (National University of Singapore)

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Social World of Traders: Commerce and Social Differentiation in Pre-conflict Aleppo
  Dr Paul S. Anderson (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Autonomous Activism and Accountability
  Dr Rory P. McCarthy (Durham University)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and the East: The New Geopolitics of Religion and Identity
  Prof Peter Mandaville (George Mason University)

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Writing the History of Saladin
  Prof Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and Empire in India: The Padshah's Sacred Authority and Religious Pluralism in Mughal Times
  Prof Corinne Lefevre (Centre for South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS))

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Institutions, Guilds, and Economic Prosperity
  Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Arabic's Easternmost Frontier: Arabic Manuscripts, Sufism and Courtly Culture in Southeast Asia, 17th-18th Centuries
  Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fulfulde as a Language of Religious Expression in the Islamic Religious Culture of West Africa
  Prof Louis Brenner (SOAS)

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Significance of the Dome in Islamic Architecture
  Prof Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Green Industrialization: Evidence from and for Muslim Societies
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can international law make a difference in time of war?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Civilian Casualties in War
  Professor Neta Crawford (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Khilafat and the Pan-Islamic Imagination
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
  Dr James WIlson (University of Konstanz)

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Muslim Justice Under Christian Rule: The Banū Rajā’ Qādīs of Norman Sicily
  Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law to the Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology
  Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (SOAS, University of London)

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The First Friday Sermons of Islam as a Nexus of Piety, Ethics, and Politics
  Professor Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Written in the Margins – Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
  Dr Dror Weil (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Crisis in the Sahel: Causes and Consequences for Africa, Europe and the Muslim World
  Dr Jonathan Guiffard (Institute Montaigne)

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sufism in Al-Sanusi’s Theological Works
  Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
  Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Marketplace
  Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
  Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)