Category: Videos

Title: Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur’anic Commentaries

Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur’anic Commentaries

In this book talk, Dr. Hadia Mubarak, author of “Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur’anic Commentaries” explores the impact of modernity on three influential, Sunni Qurʾanic commentaries in the twentieth century and the ways in which colonialism, nationalism, and modernization set into motion new ways of engaging with the subject of women in the Qurʾan.

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Ussama Makdisi Lecturing at Georgetown University

ACMCU, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the African Studies Program, hosted a conversation with University of California Berkeley Professor of Middle East History and Chancellor’s…

ACMCU Honors the Life, Career, and Legacy of ACMCU Founding Director and Distinguished University Professor John L. Esposito. This video was co-produced and narrated by John's wife Jean Esposito and…

Dr. Tareq Baconi and Dr. Nader Hashemi at Georgetown University

ACMCU, CCAS, and The African Studies Program of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service welcomed Dr. Tareq Baconi from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network to give a lecture on the…