Blasphemy in Defense of Piety?
Hagan, Gottfried - University of Michigan
2008-09-15 12:09:15-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:42:22

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Apologetic and polemic darwinism in the middle east
Bromer, Rainer - University of Michigan
2008-09-22 12:09:41-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:48:53

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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The Power and Problem of the Image: Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions
Gruber, Christiane - Indiana University
2008-09-29 12:12:14-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:45:31

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Jewish Notions of Idolatry and their Function in the Religious Landscape of the Roman Mediterranean
Eliav, Yaron - University of Michigan
2008-10-06 12:09:00-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:49:56

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Unintended consequences: US cold war policy and Afghanistan's holy warriors
Levitsky, Mel -
2008-10-13 12:09:31-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:47:49

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Humor and subversion in Persian Sufi tradition
Tourage, Mahdi - University of Michigan
2008-10-27 12:10:20-04:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:31:46

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons
Keane, Webb - University of Michigan
2008-11-03 12:10:23-05:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:31:46

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Hijacking Scriptures in Medieval Polemics
Szpiech, Ryan - University of Michigan
2008-11-17 12:10:30-05:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:48:26

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive." In this lecture, we survey the variety of medieval uses of original material in polemical writing, especially in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries in the Iberian Peninsula and Maghreb, with specific attention to odd variations on the standard patterns including the Christian citation of Qur'anic material against Jews in Judeo-Arabic script, the Hebrew translation of Christian Gospels, and the fictional fabrication of sources and polemicists on all sides as a strategy in inter-religious debate.

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Time, Dreams and Laughter: Snapshots of the Subversive in Jewish Mystical Tradition (and its aftershocks)
Ginsberg, Elliot - University of Michigan
2008-12-01 12:10:10-05:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:57:34

A lecture by Dr. Elliot Ginsberg, Associate Professor of Jewish Thought, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Near Eastern Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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Heresy and Islam
Hughes, David - University of Michigan
2008-12-08 12:10:58-05:00
Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan - 1636 School of Social Work Building
Duration: 00:37:14

Part of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies colloquium "Religion and the Subversive."

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