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 second of two sessions discussing secular and political thought in the early Islamic world.
Session two will feature Professor Louise Marlow and her talk, "Counsel for Kings: Secular Bases for Legitimate Rule in Medieval Western Asia"
Opening reflection, "Reason and Religion in Abbasid Political Discourse" to be provided by Prof. Hayrettin Yücesoy.
Dr. Louise Marlow is a Professor of Religion at Wellesley College and author of Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth Century Iran and Hierarchy in Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies and The Center for the Humanities.