Islamic Socialism: Visions of Islamic Statehood and an Islamic International from the East

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Organizing Institution: THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES | HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Start Date: October 25, 2021 (12:00pm)
End Date: October 25, 2021
Cost: Free
Website: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/islamic-socialism-visions-islamic-statehood-and-islamic-international-east
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The Association for Global Political Thought presents its Fall 2021 Seminar Series

Teren Sevea
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

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Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet’s Port and Sufism across the Oceans.

Sevea is also the author of number of book chapters and journal articles pertaining to Indian Ocean networks, Sufi textual traditions, Islamic erotology and the socioeconomic significance of spirits, that have been published in journals such as Third World Quarterly and Modern Asian Studies. In addition to this, he is a coordinator of a multimedia project entitled “The Lighthouses of God: Mapping Sanctity Across the Indian Ocean,” which investigates the evolving landscapes of Indian Ocean Islam through photography, film and GIS technology.

Co-sponsors: @Harvard_History, @HarvardAsia, @HarvardDRCLAS, @MittalInstitute, @HarvardWCFIA, @EuropeAtHarvard, @MHCHarvard, @FairbankCenter & Program on Constitutional Government.
Contact: Yi Ning Chang



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