Andrew F. March will workshop a paper outlining the argument of his forthcoming book manuscript, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, which traces the discourse on sovereignty from the mid-19th century reform movement to the present. You must RSVP to attend this event.

Erum Sattar explores the legal and political aspects of management of water resources in semi-arid environments. In this comparative project, Sattar draws relevant lessons from Moorish water systems for today’s management of water resources across countries. You must RSVP to attend this event.

Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork in five countries, including Brunei and Singapore, this paper by Dominik Müller examines the bureaucratization of Islam as a social phenomenon that informs dynamics of social change alongside transformations of the very meaning(s) of Islam in state and society. You must RSVP to attend this event.

Havva Guney-Ruebenacker develops a novel approach to the analysis of the cases of Islamic mahr agreements in American courts, as a remarkable example of the interaction of Islamic and western law that entails significant implications for legal and social change around mahr and divorce in Islamic law. You must RSVP to attend this event.