Incidents of Anti-Shiism, April 2025

Mapping Global Populism — Panel XXI: Ethnic & Sectarian Politics and Populism in Iraq, Syria and Kurdish Regions

See also The New York Times, which article is behind a wall.

The ‘Embodied Imamate’ Project are pleased to announce our upcoming online lecture series, “Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿīsm,” which will begin on March 28 and will run through the end of the year.

If you would like to attend, please register by sending an email to a.santi@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

We look forward to your participation and hope to see you there.

For more information about our project and upcoming initiatives, visit our website: https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/

Including:
Edmund Hayes, “The Epistolary Imamate: Circular Letters in the Administration of the Shiʿi Community”;
Georg Leube, “Local Elites during Two Periods of Civil Strife: Al-Ashʿath b. Qays, Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath, and the Quarter of Kinda in Seventh-Century Kufa”;
Nimrod Hurvitz, “Rulers, Ḥanābila, and Shiʿis: The Unravelling Social Cohesion of Fourth/Tenth-Century Baghdad”;
Paul Walker, “Resistance to and Acceptance of the Fatimids in North Africa: A Shiʿi Dynasty in Negotiation with Both Adherents and Enemies”