Tag: Islam

  • Nation & World

    Purifying body and mind, building community

    Muslim chaplains, Dining Services join to create multicultural iftar dinners to mark end of day of fasting, reflection for Ramadan.

    5 minutes
    Muslim Chaplains, Samia Omar hosts iftar
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    Fraught moment for religious freedom

    A Divinity School conversation focused on religious freedom in the wake of President Trump’s executive action on immigration.

    3 minutes
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    When journalism meets religion

    Harvard Divinity School is hosting a symposium for journalists, designed to give them a more nuanced view of religions to prevent bigotry and prejudice.

    9 minutes
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    Embracing varieties of religious experience

    An interview with Dean David Hempton to mark the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.

    8 minutes
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    Muslims wonder what’s ahead

    As rhetoric against Muslims rises across the nation, members of the Harvard community increasingly are pondering how to safeguard and support the rights of all.

    8 minutes
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    Bent toward violence

    Harvard psychiatrist Ronald Schouten answers questions on the San Bernardino attack and the psychology behind both terrorism and the fear it spreads.

    10 minutes
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    A call to build on differences

    Promoting a global society that celebrates both its common humanity and its differences is the antidote to the world’s deepening divisions, the Aga Khan — the worldwide spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims — said in a visit to Harvard Thursday.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The Muslims rarely heard

    In a question-and-answer session, a Divinity School scholar discusses the sweeping breadth, complexity of Islamic culture. Ousmane Kane will deliver an inaugural lecture on March 6 at Harvard Divinity School to celebrate the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professorship of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society.

    7 minutes
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    Religious life at Harvard

    Take a look at the breadth of religious life at Harvard, where members of the community participate in moments of worship, spirituality, and community across the University. Students can engage…

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    Pearls of Persian art

    A generous donation by the late Norma Jean Calderwood — philanthropist, autodidact, and keen-eyed collector — brought a millennium’s worth of Islamic art to Harvard, some of which is now on display for the first time at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A warning from inside Tunisia

    A Tunisian constitutional expert said Sept. 17 that recent violence, coupled with moves by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party to enshrine religion in the nation’s new constitution, are a bad sign for a pluralistic, democratic future.

    5 minutes
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    Fostering global understanding

    A panel of scholars made up of the directors of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centers met to discuss how to promote better understanding between the Islamic world and the West.

    6 minutes
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    Promoting understanding through education

    Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, has been named the director of Harvard’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

    4 minutes
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    Exploring Islam in Nigeria

    A panel of scholars explored the topic of Islam in Nigeria in preparation for the visit to Harvard by Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Why do they hate us?’

    The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused Americans to awaken to the disdain for the nation held by some overseas. It also brought harsh attention to U.S. Muslims and mobilized the nation toward actions it may one day rue, experts said at a panel discussion.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Teaching a tragedy

    Speakers from the fields of education, history, government, religion, and politics convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to examine how, why, and what should be taught to young people about the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    3 minutes
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    The tipping point

    Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.

    14 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reading the Quran in Germany

    German scholar Stefan Wild delivered the 2010 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lectures, sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The first of the three talks — “The History of the Quran: Why Is There No State of the Art?” — drew a large and avid audience to Tsai Auditorium.

    3 minutes
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    Horror, by custom

    Radcliffe Fellow looks at the painful ‘facts and realities’ facing women in Pakistan.

    6 minutes
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    Gender bargaining in Islam

    Radcliffe Fellow Nancy J. Smith-Hefner studies the “gender paradox” among Muslim youth in Java.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Overseas, violence against women

    In some Muslim societies, the tension between genders can lapse into violence. Some Radcliffe Fellows can tell that tale.

    1 minute
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    In the clutches of the Taliban

    New York Times reporter David Rohde discusses the seven months he was held captive by the Taliban on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Interpreter of cultures

    Harvard professor Ali Asani uses art to spread understanding of Islam and its underpinnings.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Drawing attention

    Jytte Klausen, author and research associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, explored the cartoon controversy over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper in 2005, offering her take on the unrest chronicled in her new book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Islam’s mystical dimensions take flight

    A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology explores the mystical dimensions of Islam with a series of photographs and multilayered, mixed-media compositions.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New Muslim cool

    “New Muslim Cool” documents an American Muslim’s rise from the tough streets and hip-hop beats to a creed of mercy and forgiveness.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Kennedy School professors named 2009 Carnegie Scholars

    Associate Professor Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Assistant Professor Tarek Masoud of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) have been named 2009 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The honorees were selected for their compelling ideas and commitment to enriching the quality of the public dialogue on Islam.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Princess Zahra outlines the work of Aga Khan Development Network

    Princess Zahra Aga Khan ’94 came home to Harvard this week (May 13) to present a hopeful vision of what education in the developing world can be like.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    CES hosts talk on integration of Islam into contemporary France

    Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse visited Harvard’s Center for European Studies (CES) last Friday (May 2) to speak about the “realities” of life for the nearly 5 million Muslims who make their home in France.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where science and religion meet, from an Islamic perspective

    Where and how science and religion intersect is a debate that dates back centuries; it’s also a regular part of contemporary discourse. The discussion took center stage at the 2007-08 Paul Tillich Lecture on Monday (May 5) in the Science Center’s lecture hall B, where a noted astrophysicist and religious scholar explored the deeper dimensions…

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