Politics and Secularity in the Early Islamic World - A Lecture Series

Part of the Global Perspectives on Good Governance and Secularity lecture series covering discursive practices in early Islam. Series facilitator Professor Hayrettin Yücesoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.

Join us for the first of two sessions discussing secular and political thought in the early Islamic world.

Session one will feature Professor Ahmed El Shamsy and his talk, "A New Perspective on Constitutional Theory in Early Islam"

Opening reflection, "Two Middle Eastern Discourses of Politics before European Hegemony," to be provided by Prof. Hayrettin Yücesoy.

Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy is a Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago and author of Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed and Intellecutal Tradition and The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies and The Center for the Humanities.