Subject: Islamic Studies Workshop

Description: The Islamic Studies Workshop isas an intellectual forum
that will attract students from multiple disciplines such as Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, Committee on African and African-American Studies, Committee for Social Thought Art History, English Language and Literature, Gender Studies, Philosophy, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, etc. We hope to examine a variety of phenomena (political, social, philosophical, artistic,scientific, economic, etc.) through the lens of Islamic traditions. The intersection of all the topics explored in the workshop will
be Islam in the most general sense; it will not be geographically or temporally bound. We hope that the Islamic Studies workshop will provide students a much-needed space in which to explore how Islam
informs singular historical events and shapes societies as the primary object of inquiry.