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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Please join us THIS evening, 5:30-7pm, for a special Muslim Journeys walking tour!
We’ll start at the Broad Museum (don’t forget your umbrella!). Dr. Rachel Winter will present Rayyane Tabet’s thought-provoking 128 Civics Questions, an exhibit spread throughout campus
Please join us THIS Wednesday, 6-7pm, for a special presentation by Asma Uddin (MSU Law College), “Who Counts as a Believer? Religious Liberty in US Law and the Risks of Exclusion.” This event will include a signing of Prof. Uddin’s book, When Islam Is Not a Religion.
Join us tomorrow (Friday) at 3pm in 303 Int’l Ctr for a presentation by the award-winning Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah! (See the Zoom option for those who can’t join us.)
Please join us for the 6th annual Kerr lecture next Friday, Oct 2, 3pm Eastern, featuring the award-winning Palestinian poet and writer, Ibrahim Nasrallah!
303 International Center & online (hybrid): msu.zoom.us/webinar/register….
Open to all!
Please join us for the 6th annual Kerr lecture next Friday, Oct 2, 3pm Eastern, featuring the award-winning Palestinian poet and writer, Ibrahim Nasrallah!
303 International Center & online (hybrid): msu.zoom.us/webinar/register….
Open to all!
Please join us on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1:00-2:20pm, in room 303 of the International Center for a special Muslim Journeys event:
Dr. Younus Mirza (Shenandoah Univ.) will present his book, The Islamic Mary: Maryam through the Centuries.
Programming note: WKARHD will air an abbreviated, 26-minute version of the documentary film “American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story” this Friday, Sept. 11th, at 4:30pm.
The complete 38-minute film can be streamed through the MSU Library site and is also available on YouTube.
runs toward the Twin Towers. When his body isn't immediately found, his absence inevitably leads to questions--and suspicions. His family is forced to overcome tragedy and ostracization in response to their son's death. His mother, Talat, fights to honor Salman, stand for (2/3)
Please join us for a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Muslim Studies Program!
This event will feature MSP Founding Coordinator Mohammed Ayoob and others.
Friday, Sept. 18, 3:30-5:00pm, 303 International Center.
Cosponsored Event w/@MSU_HistoryDept :
Tuesday, September 15, 2:45-4:00PM, 303 International Center:
Nathan Tabor (Western Michigan University), “City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi” (Book Talk)
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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
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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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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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
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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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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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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…
