Information on events for Michigan State’s Muslim Studies Program will be available here as well as link to register for any and all upcoming events! ⬇️
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Join us this Thursday, April 2nd, 2:20-4:00pm, in room 303 of the International Center for a special lecture by Professor Rhea Rahman (Brooklyn College), “Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White”
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Correct version of April 9th flyer
Join us for lectures by Jennifer Pruitt!
Wed April 8, 7pm, EL Public Library: “
Intro to Islamic Architecture: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem & Great Mosque in Damascus
Thu April 9, 12:40pm, 303 Int’l Ctr: Construction, Destruction, & Concealment under Cairo’s ‘Mad’ Caliph
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Please join us next Tuesday for a screening and discussion of the Iranian film Close-Up (1990)—“an evening with Abbas Kiarostami”
Tuesday, April 7th, 7:00-8:45pm, B122 Wells Hall
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Join us for lectures by Jennifer Pruitt!
Wed April 8, 7pm, EL Public Library: “
Intro to Islamic Architecture: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem & Great Mosque in Damascus
Thu April 9, 12:40pm, 303 Int’l Ctr: Construction, Destruction, & Concealment under Cairo’s ‘Mad’ Caliph
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MSU Muslim Studies Program retweeted
Join us this Thursday, April 2nd, 2:20-4:00pm, in room 303 of the International Center for a special lecture by Professor Rhea Rahman (Brooklyn College), “Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White”
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Mar 25
Join us April 9th for a conversation and Islamic Manuscripts Collection visit with artists specializing in Ottoman classical book arts!
6-8p in the Hatcher Gallery
myumi.ch/E8bdG
Sponsored by @UMichLibrary @umichGISC @UmichArtHist
An upcoming visit by three practitioners of Ottoman classical book arts offers the rare opportunity for a look at how contemporary artists learn from their mentors, even those whose works are centuries old. Read about it: myumi.ch/E8bdG
ALT Opening of Islamic manuscript 229 (Istanbul, 1791 or 2), an album of "taklid" (imitation) by the Ottoman calligrapher Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi (d.1829) reproducing pieces by the master Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698)
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MSU Muslim Studies Program retweeted
Mar 27
Coming up in April: Senses of Mourning: Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era by Dr. Babak Rahimi
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 5:00PM
Location: 110 Weiser Hall (1st floor), 500 Church St, Ann Arbor MI
RSVP: myumi.ch/79WRE
Join the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) on Thursday, April 9, 2026, in 110 Weiser Hall at 5:00 PM for a talk by Dr. Babak Rahimi (University of California, San Diego) on his new book Senses of Mourning: Moharram Performances in Shiʿi Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026).
This talk explains how Moharram rituals in Shiʿi Iran have changed over time by looking at how people experience them through their senses, showing how these practices reflect wider social and political changes.
For more information & to RSVP: myumi.ch/79WRE
ALT Poster promoting "Senses of Mourning" event. Background shows a Moharram procession. Details include date, time, location, and speaker, Babak Rahimi.
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MSU Muslim Studies Program retweeted
Mar 31
Coming up:
"The Use and Abuse of the Islamophobia Framework in US Higher Education"
April 3-4, 2026 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
For over two decades, scholars have studied the racialization of Islam, arguing that Islamophobia is better understood as anti-Muslim racism. They have pointed out that this form of discrimination is not contained to questions of religious freedom, but also impacts Muslims’ experiences with surveillance, policing, immigration, employment, and media narratives. The idea of racialization was an important intervention and framing that helped shift the conversation from a focus on individual and interpersonal bias to systemic targeting that marks Muslims, and those mistaken for Muslim, as threats to US national security.
For more information, please visit: lsa.umich.edu/amas/islamopho…
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MSU Muslim Studies Program retweeted
Mar 31
TODAY!
3/31: Maxamed Abu-maye, assistant professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University, speaks on his project, "Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence." myumi.ch/n1PJN
ALT Partial cover of the book "Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence" and a photo of the author, Maxamed Abu-maye.
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@MSUMuslimStudy Program welcomes Assistant Professor of Anthropology from Brooklyn College Dr. Rhea Rahman to campus for a book talk on, "Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White,"
The event is put on in partnership with #MSUAnthropology
ALT The Book Talk will take place this Thursday, April 2nd from 2:30-4pm in Room 303 of the International Center. An image of the book is shown with a brief description: An ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest Islamic NGO based in\nthe West, Racializing the Ummah explores how a Muslim organization can\ndo good in a world that defines Muslimness as less than human. Rooted\nin more than a decade of international research, Rhea Rahman\u2019s study on\nthe organization\u2019s projects, methods, and limitations reveals how racial\ncapitalism permeates all aspects of humanitarianism\u2014and paints a frank,\nnuanced portrait of the constraints Islamic aid entities face in the effort\nto disentangle themselves from neocolonialism and Western hegemony.
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Join us this Thursday, April 2nd, 2:20-4:00pm, in room 303 of the International Center for a special lecture by Professor Rhea Rahman (Brooklyn College), “Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White”
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Rooted in more than a decade of international research, Rhea Rahman’s study on the organization’s projects, methods, and limitations reveals how racial capitalism permeates all aspects of humanitarianism—and paints a frank, nuanced portrait of the constraints… 2/
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… Islamic aid entities face in the effort to disentangle themselves from neocolonialism and Western hegemony.
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Please join us for 2 lectures by Diana Darke, one at MSU, another at Detroit Institute of Arts
3/24, 12:40-2pm, 303 Int’l Ctr: “How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe”
3/25, 6-7pm, DIA: “How Syrian Art and Architecture Helped Shape Europe’s Romanesque and Gothic Styles”
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Join us online this Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, for the 19th Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference: “Does Islam Have a Liberation Theology?”
Free Registration at msu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
Here is the updated schedule.
Join us online on March 26-27 for our 19th Annual Conference: “Does Islam Have a Liberation Theology?,” featuring multiple panels and keynote presentations by Ebrahim Moosa and Sylvia Chan-Malik.
Free Registration at msu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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Join us online on March 26-27 for our 19th Annual Conference: “Does Islam Have a Liberation Theology?,” featuring multiple panels and keynote presentations by Ebrahim Moosa and Sylvia Chan-Malik.
Free Registration at msu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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Please join us THIS Tuesday and Wednesday for lectures by the renowned scholar of Islamic architecture, Prof. Dede Ruggles! See comments for details.
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THIS Tuesday, February 24th, 12:40-2pm, 303 International Center:
D. (Dede) Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “The Great Mosque of Cordoba: The Biography of an Extraordinary Moment”
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THIS Wednesday, February 25th, 4:00-5:00pm, JMC Library, Case Hall:
D. (Dede) Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Gardens and Canals: The Making of the Islamic Environment”
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Join us on Monday, February 16th, 7-9pm, for a FREE screening of the acclaimed film, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, in room B122 of Wells Hall.
This will be followed by a panel discussion with Professors Farha Abbasi, Waseem El-Rayes, and Salah Hassan.
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