BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T130000 DTSTAMP:20220412T184940Z CREATED:20220412T184841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220412T184940Z UID:16897-1651060800-1651064400@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:‘Aqām al-ḥajj Fulān’: The Leaders of Abbasid Pilgrimage in the Early Islamic Annalistic Tradition DESCRIPTION:The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 193/809) allegedly led the ḥajj nine times over the course of his twenty-three-year reign\, in 188/804 he was also the last ʿAbbāsid caliph to lead the pilgrimage rites. The pilgrimage served as a means of legitimation as well as a place of succession and nomination\, with Hārūn and his wife Zubayda bt. Jaʿfar (from whence the Darb Zubayda) in particular undergoing extensive infrastructural works on the pilgrimage route. The leaders of the ḥajj – and of the summer expeditions (ṣawāʾif) – are the most consistently provided information in the early Islamic annalistic tradition (tawārīkh)\, being found at the end of each year\, reflecting the place of the event in the Islamic calendar. For the early ʿAbbāsid period\, the pilgrimage akhbār are tremendously consistent\, demonstrating few discrepancies across late ninth/early tenth century sources (ten disagreements across one hundred and one notices). The agreement between the early Baṣran traditionist Khalı̄fa b. Khayyāṭ (d. 240/854) and al-Ṭabarī (d.310/923) demonstrates that this information was circulating in a complete form by the mid-ninth century. This contrasts with the leaders of the Umayyads pilgrimage season\, which is reported with significant variation in the same sources. The near unanimity epitomises the consistency of the sources for the Abbasid period\, further evidencing their centralising narratives. The most well-known leaders are undoubtedly the caliphs and their sons\, leading it twenty-five times\, when they were not present it was nearly always a member of the ʿAbbāsid family. This talk collates the ʿAbbāsid leadership reports (from 132/750 – 232/847) across our early annalistic sources and aims to answer the major questions that a detailed overview of the material raises: who was leading the ḥajj for the early ʿAbbāsids\, where does this material derive from and what is the connection between pilgrimage ceremonial and caliphal nomination? \n  \nCo-sponsored by CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and UCLA Islamic Studies Program \n  \nLeone Pecorini Goodall is a third year PhD student in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh/St. Andrews (supervisors: Marie Legendre\, Yannis Stouraitis and Tim Greenwood). His thesis explores the patterns and means of succession of the late Umayyad and early Abbasids\, focusing on over-looked aspects of succession such as the matrilineal line\, age\, eligibility and ‘failed’ heirs. His research makes use of Arabic\, Armenian\, and Greek language sources\, adopting a source-critical and comparative approach. \n  \n[gravityform id=”178″ title=”false” description=”false”] URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/aqam-al-%e1%b8%a5ajj-fulan-the-leaders-of-abbasid-pilgrimage-in-the-early-islamic-annalistic-tradition/ LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall CATEGORIES:Arabic & Islamic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Zubayda-Darb-coin.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T153000 DTSTAMP:20191101T233909Z CREATED:20191101T233516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T233909Z UID:13996-1573911000-1573918200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Uyghur Crisis in China: Adversity\, Advocacy\, Activism DESCRIPTION:Event Flyer\nA public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies Program\, the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES)\, and the UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights \nSaturday\, November 16\, 2019\n1:30 – 3:30 p.m.\nUCLA Campus\, Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nRSVP to CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or 310-825-0913\nRSVP is necessary\n\nParking instructions provided upon reservation \n  \nA panel of experts will discuss the ongoing human rights crisis in northwestern China\n(Xinjiang/East Turkestan). Panelists will focus on the history of the Uyghur community\, ethnicity and religion in China\, international relations\, and human rights advocacy. \n  \nPanelists:\nJessica Batke is a Senior Editor for ChinaFile. An expert on China’s domestic political and social affairs\, she served as the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research Analyst for nearly eight years prior to joining ChinaFile. \nDarren Byler received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in 2018. His research focuses on Uyghur dispossession\, culture work\, and securitization in the city of Urumchi\, the capital of Xinjiang. He has published on the ethnography of Islam in China\, transnational Chinese cinema\, and travel and representation. \nNury A. Turkel is an attorney in Washington\, D.C. specializing in regulatory compliance. Mr. Turkel also is founder and Chair of the Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project\, a documentation-based advocacy organization. He formerly served as president of the Uyghur American Association. \nThis event is made possible with the support of the Muslim Reform Institute of LA (MRI). Through such programs for the broader public\, MRI and the UCLA Islamic Studies program aim to promote a more nuanced understanding of issues in Islamic history and civilization rooted in academic research and analysis. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-uyghur-crisis-in-china-adversity-advocacy-activism/ LOCATION:Royce 314 CATEGORIES:Arabic & Islamic Studies,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/tiles.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T133000 DTSTAMP:20190823T222126Z CREATED:20190823T155911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T222126Z UID:13744-1569499200-1569504600@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Applying for Jobs and Life After the Dissertation DESCRIPTION:Join NELC faculty Dr. Cate Bonesho\, Dr. Kara Cooney\, and Dr. Bill Schniedewind for a workshop and discussion of applying for jobs and life after the dissertation. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”137″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/life-after-the-dissertation/ LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365 CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Bilingual Lecture Series,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Iranian,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Pourdavoud Center,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/resume.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T133000 DTSTAMP:20190515T212727Z CREATED:20190306T195002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T212727Z UID:12894-1558008000-1558013400@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Multilingualism in Early Islamic Egypt: The View from Papyri DESCRIPTION:After Arab armies conquered Egypt in the mid-seventh century\, the country’s linguistic landscape changed only gradually. Greek\, preeminent for centuries as a language of high culture and governance\, faded as Arabic advanced to fill these niches. Coptic\, which until then had functioned largely as a vernacular\, became in its turn a language of culture and administration. This talk traces the three languages’ variable coexistence in a time of political and social change through the papyri and literary sources. \nSponsored By: \nDean’s Discretionary Fund \nCenter for Near Eastern Studies \nDr. Naïm Vanthieghem is a Research Scholar at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT)\, a division of the Centre National de la Recherche\nScientifique in Paris. A papyrologist and historian of Egypt who works with Arabic\,\nCoptic\, and Greek documents\, he earned a PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 2015. He held post-doctoral fellowships from the European Research Council and Princeton University before joining the IRHT in 2017. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of interest\, which include multilingualism\, law\, scribal practice\, early Islam\, and governmental administration. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”115″ title=”false” description=”true”] URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/multilingualism-in-early-islamic-the-view-from-papyri/ LOCATION:Kaplan 365 CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-06-at-11.45.39-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T193000 DTSTAMP:20161006T221429Z CREATED:20160929T164606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T221429Z UID:5273-1475778600-1475782200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:I Can Hear The Barbarians DESCRIPTION: URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/can-hear-barbarians/ LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160922T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160922T170000 DTSTAMP:20160918T012830Z CREATED:20160918T012304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160918T012830Z UID:5077-1474516800-1474563600@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Undergraduate Ice Cream Social DESCRIPTION: URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-ice-cream-social/ LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,NELC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T152000 DTSTAMP:20160708T185200Z CREATED:20160708T170617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T185200Z UID:2370-1461587400-1461597600@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Kitāb al-Ḥayda and Early Ḥanbalī Creeds DESCRIPTION:Among Islamic groups\, Sunnī traditionalists\, especially Ḥanbalīs\, were strongly opposed to kalām (dialectical theology). Their condemnation of kalām was such that it became an established article of their creeds. Notwithstanding this official condemnation\, there is evidence in their writings that they practiced kalām. For example\, Ḥanbalī practices of kalām have been examined in the work of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328)\, as have their influences on the disputational legal writings (jadal al-fiqh) of Ibn ʿAqīl (d. 513/1119). This talk investigates the role of kalām\, specifically apologetic kalām\, in fourth/tenth-century Ḥanbalī works through the lens of a pseudepigraphon. By examining the genesis of this pseudepigraphon — known in its later recensions under the title Kitāb al-Ḥayda (Book of evasion) — in al-Ibāna al-kubrā (The major creed) of Ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī (d. 387/997)\, the presentation will highlight compelling textual evidence not only of the role of apologetic kalām but also of the transmission of pseudepigraphic narratives in the formation of Ḥanbalī creeds. \nRacha El Omari is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of California-Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the areas of Islamic Theology\, Islamic Intellectual History\, and Arabic-Islamic Historiography. She received her PhD from Yale University (NELC). Her works include The Theology of Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931) (Brill\, forthcoming)\, and “Accomodation and Resistance: Classical Muʿtazilites on Ḥadīth.” Published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/kitab-al-%e1%b8%a5ayda-early-%e1%b8%a5anbali-creeds/ LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic & Islamic Studies END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR