Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Fictions of Capital in the Nile Valley: Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, the Nahdah, and the Cold War

Thursday, October 11, 5:00PM, CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
Arabic Literature Colloquium
Conceptualizing the Human: Towards a New Theory of the Subject

Wael Hallaq, Columbia University
Conceptualizing the Human
DEMONSTRATION, EXPERIENCE AND SCIENCE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Co-organized by the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Department of Philosophy, Center for Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy Colloquium
معجم المرأة في القرآن الكريم: مفردات الكلام والأحكام والأعلام والمعجم الغوي التاريخي: المغَيَّب المنتَظَر

Mahdi Arar, University of Sharjah
Arabic Lecture Series
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop

Come Learn about an aspect of Islam beyond the media headlines and politics through Arabic Calligraphy!
Calligraphy Workshop
CERTAINTY AND CONTINUITY: EPISTEMOLOGY, LAW AND POLITICS IN AL-JUWAYNI'S THOUGHT

An Islamic Studies Lecture Series
CERTAINTY AND CONTINUITY
Reckoning and Recounting: Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi's Philisophical and Quranic Commentaries

Tony Street, University of Cambridge
Reckoning and Recounting
Prayers, Commentaries and the Edification of the Ottoman Supplicant (1500-1750)

Guy Burak, New York University
Ottoman Supplicant
Byzantium, the Arabs, and the Rise of Islam

Colloquium in Memory of Irfan Shahîd (1926–2016)
Shahid-colloquium
Vernacular Islam: Historical Perspectives on Muslim Identity

Ahmet Taragon Karamustafa, University of Maryland
vernacular-islam
Spring 2017 Graduates & Faculty
The Ecology of Language Variation in Arabic

Mohamed El-Sharkawi from Wayne State University,

When: Monday April 3rd 2:-00-4:00 pm

Where: CCAS Boardroom (ICC241)

Arabic Lecture Series: Mohamed El-Sharkawi
Apocalypse and Eschatology in the First Millennium

First Millennium Network Friday, April 28th, 2017 CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
First Millennium Network: Apocalypse and Eschatolo
Preserving, Democratizing, and Studying the World Heritage of Islamic Manuscripts: The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition

Sabine Schmidtke Institute for Advanced Study Princeton March 1st, 6:00pm, Location: CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
Islamic Studies Lecture Series: Sabine Schmidtke
ʿAbduh and the Avicennian synthesis by Robert Wisnovsky, McGill University

Islamic Studies Lecture Series The Islamic Intellectual Tradition: Reception, Transformation and Innovation When: Thursday February 2nd, 6:00pm, Location: CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
The pre-Islamic Battle of Dhū Qār: From History to Collective Memory

A Lecture in Arabic by Hamad Obaid Alajmi When: Tuesday Nov. 29th, 5:00pm, where: CCAS Boardroom ICC 241
What to think about before we think about (Islamic) ritual

9 November, 6:00pm, Location: CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
Transgression and Invention Language, Genre and Interarts in Modern Arabic Poetry

Arabic Literature Colloquium Transgression and Invention Language, Genre and Interarts in Modern Arabic Poetry When: October 27th 3:00 – 8:00pm, October 28th 9:30am – 4:30pm
Arabic Literature Colloquium: Transgression and In
The Memory of Place – A case-study of two Kuwaiti novels

July 19 at 4:00 PM, Location: CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
Arabic Literature Colloquium

مرحبا بكم في قسم اللغة العربية و الدراسات الإسلامية

Welcome to the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. You will find a variety of information regarding our academic programs, resources and current events outlined on this webpage. In addition to graduate and undergraduate programs in Arabic and Islamic Studies, the department also hosts the Division of Eastern Mediterranean Languages, which is home to Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew.

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Should you have any questions, please feel free to visit our FAQs page or send us an email at arabic@georgetown.edu. For specific inquiries, you may contact the following people:

Department Chair	Suzanne Stetkevych
Department Business Manager	Meriem Tikue
Administrative Assistant	TBD
Director of Undergraduate Studies	Elliott Colla
Director of Graduate Studies	A hmad Alqassas

Photo credits: Mohammed Bushra (Turkey, Spain), Tuve Floden (Abu Dhabi, Algeria), Anny Gaul (Morocco, Palestine), and Pamela Klasova (Jordan, Leiden).

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