Islam Archives - Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

CANCELLED: Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj – Lâle Can

Unfortunately, Thursday evening’s book talk by Dr. Lâle Can has been cancelled due to travel concerns. At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual […]

CANCELLED: Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria – Will Hanley

*This event has been cancelled.* Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world’s population today. An individual’s place of birth or naturalization determines where he or […]

Spiritual Highway (Panel Discussion)

Together with the award-winning Nigerian photographer Akintunde Akinleye, anthropologist Dr. Marloes Janson hit the road in the summer of 2013 to map the most important and busiest Nigerian road – […]

Kannywood and Contestations and Negotiations between Sufi and Salafi Muslims – Musa Ibrahim

Join UF’s Musa Ibrahim for this public lecture about Sufi and Salafi Muslims in Nigeria. Presented by the Islam in Africa Working Group, the Center for African Studies, the Center […]

The FBI, Jews and Muslims: A History of Suspicion – Steven Weitzman

Steven Weitzman is Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced […]

CANCELLED: Symposium on the Study of Islam and the Critical Humanities

*This event has been cancelled.* The central question of this symposium is: How is the study of Islam a vital site for justifying the institutional life of the critical humanities, both […]

CANCELLED: Installation of the Sheikh Fellowship in Islamic Studies

*This event has been cancelled.* The UF Department of Religion invites you to celebrate the installation of the Sheikh Fellowship in Islamic Studies. Event Introduction by Terje Østebø (UF) Speaker Introduction […]

From the Excess to the Apocalyptic: Media and the Production of Religious Surplus in Africa – Asonzeh Ukah

The Center for Global Islamic Studies is organizing this lecture as part of the Henry Luce Foundation project, “Islam and Africa in Global Context.” Dr. Ukah is a sociologist of religion and […]

Media and ‘Public’ Islam in Africa and Elsewhere (Workshop)

The Center for Global Islamic Studies is organizing this Workshop as part of the Henry Luce Foundation project, “Islam and Africa in Global Context.” The workshop will feature presentations on mediated religion […]