Parvez’s 2023-24 WSRP research project examined how women become central to debates about Islamic reform and how possession becomes a site to manage gender relations and trauma.
This lecture was given by visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam, Z. Fareen Parvez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
Rahina Muazu is a scholar of Islam and a research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin.
Nurhaizatul Jamil is an Assistant Professor in Global South Studies, co-director of the Global South Center, and co-coordinator of the Social Media Lab at the Pratt Institute.
Alicia Izharuddin (University of Malaya), Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam, gives a lecture entitled “‘Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia.”
S. Zahra Moballegh, 2018-19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Veiled Women Unveiling God: Understanding the Qur’an Through Its Women Characters."
This past fall, Susanna Drake taught a seminar on one of the most contentious religious objects in the world today: the veil.
Panel discussion at Harvard Divinity School featuring His Eminence Alhaji Muhammadu Sa'adu Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto; Ousseina Alidou, director of the African Studies Center, Rutgers University; Zainab Alwani, Assistant Professor of Islamic...
Panel discussion held April 22 on the book Practicing Shariah Law: Seven Strategies for Achieving Justice in Shariah Courts