When Amira Halabi recently became the Arab language instructor at Queen’s, she came up with a new name for the Arab program to reflect her approach and philosophy.
“Suffana is the Arabic word for ‘our class.’ I chose it because the program brings people together into a common unit. Suffana also fits with a lot of the goals that I have in mind for the program,” Ms Halabi says.
Dr. Adnan Husain, MSGP Director, appeared as a scholarly expert in the documentary "Ornament of the World" which aired on December 17 on PBS. This two-hour documentary focuses on the history of Medieval Spain and the cultural, political, and religious interactions among Muslims, Christians, and Jews over the course of over 800 years of their co-existence.
As PBS describes,
*New Course*
HIST 240FW Topics in History:
Islamophobia from the Crusaders to Donald Trump
(Drs. Adnan Husain and Ariel Salzmann)
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Thursday November 14, 2019Location
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Tuesday January 14, 2020Location
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Tuesday January 21, 2020Location
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Tuesday January 28, 2020Location
Middle East and Islamic World Update: Dr. Ariel Salzmann, Dr. Adnan Husain, Canan Sahin.
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Thursday February 6, 2020Location
Emrah Yıldız is Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. He is a historically attuned cultural anthropologist, studying routes of religious, commercial and political mobility between Iran, Turkey and Syria.
His book project, The Traffic in Iranian Pilgrims: Religion, Economy and Territory across Borders, synthesizes these areas of scholarship to chronicle the pathways of a ziyarat (visitation) route. Often referred to as Hajj-e Fuqara’ (pilgrimage of the poor) in Iran, this route has shuttled Iranian pilgrims as well as contraband goods such as oil, sugar and tobacco, among bus stations in Iran, informal bazaars in Turkey, and the Sayyida Zaynab shrine in Syria.
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Tuesday February 25, 2020Location
Abstract: This paper re-thinks the common perception of the Friday mosque as the “architectural monument par excellence.” The talk discusses the historical development of Friday mosques in the pre-modern Muslim world and the relationship between these architectural monuments and the ways in which contemporaneous Muslim jurists discussed and legislated for Friday prayer. By so doing, it questions the current art historical approach that mainly focuses on materiality and patronage while failing to take due consideration of the legal understanding of the functional as well as symbolic nature of the Friday mosque.
Ruba Kana’an (DPhil, Oxford) teaches Islamic art and architecture at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research and publications focus on the intersections between art, artists, art production, and law in Muslim contexts. Her experience spans the worlds of academia, museums, architectural practice, and community-based art education.
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Friday February 28, 2020End Date
Saturday February 29, 2020Time
4:00 pm - 4:00 pmLocation
Co-sponsored with Department of History, Muslim Societies, Global Perspectives, and Jewish Studies Program
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