Podcasts about duke islamic studies center

Imam Antepli is a globally acknowledged scholar and leader of cross-religious and cross-cultural dialogue in American higher education and in non-profit world. He has built multiple organizations and initiatives to facilitate religious and spiritual life across America's college campuses, sowing seeds of understanding between religions while upholding their cultural integrity and dignity. In July 2019, Antepli joined the Sanford School of Public Policy as associate professor of the practice, with a secondary appointment at the Divinity School as associate professor of the practice of interfaith relations. From 1996-2003 he worked on a variety of faith-based humanitarian and relief projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the first Muslim chaplain at Wesleyan University. He then moved to Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where he was the associate director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program & Interfaith Relations, as well as an adjunct faculty member. He previously served as Duke University's first Muslim chaplain and director of Center for Muslim Life from July 2008 to 2014, and then as Duke's chief representative for Muslim affairs from July 2014 to 2019. He was also the associate director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center from 2014 to 2015. Professor Antepli is also a senior fellow on Jewish-Muslim Relations at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he founded and co-directs the widely recognized Muslim Leadership Initiative. The NonProfit Times recognized Imam Antepli as one of their Power & Influence Top 50 leaders of 2019, calling him one of the most prominent Muslim leaders in higher education today. As a Muslim-American imam and one of the very few scholars bridging faith, ethics, and public policy, and as someone who was born in Turkey and lived in three different countries, Antepli offers the academy an important element of intellectual, ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.

This week, we are joined by Dr. Omid Safi, professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at duke university. Dr. Safi was the director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and his books include Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition and Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters.  On today's episode we chat about: Rumi and Islamic MysticismHow love, care, and compassion are contagious The development of an expansive love and how our well being is wrapped up in others.    

In this episode of Culture Shock: Awakening the Humanity in Our World host, Michelle Werner, discusses Islam with Imam Abdullah Antepli. Twitter: @aantepli Instagram: @abdullah.antepli Imam Abdullah Antepli is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University's Stanford School of Public Policy. He previously served as Duke University's first Muslim Chaplain and then as Duke's Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs. Also, he was the Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center. Prior, he served as the first Muslim Chaplain at Wesleyan University and then moved to Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where he was the Associate Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program & Interfaith Relations as well as an adjunct faculty member. Imam Antepli completed his training and education in Turkey where he worked on various faith-based humanitarian and relief projects in with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries. Imam Antepli has advised Secretary of State John Kerry's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, and various federal and international agencies, including the United Nations. He even gave the opening prayer, twice, at the U.S. House of Representatives! He is the founder and executive board member of the Association of College Muslim Chaplains (ACMC) and a board member of the Association for College and University Religious Affairs (ACURA). Imam Antepli co-founded the Muslim Leadership Initiative at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Imam Antepli has done many interviews and talks that can be found on YouTube. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michelle-werner/support

Getting the new year off to a worthy start, OMID SAFI PhD -- Duke University Professor and Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center; Author, and Tour Guide (really!) -- brings us his brand of "Radical Love." We're talking Islamic mysticism and American pragmatism; the liberationist tradition and traditions that link together love and justice.

Getting the new year off to a worthy start, OMID SAFI PhD -- Duke University Professor and Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center; Author, and Tour Guide (really!) -- brings us his brand of "Radical Love." We're talking Islamic mysticism and American pragmatism; the liberationist tradition and traditions that link together love and justice. The Janus Adams Show airs and streams live Saturdays at 4:00 pm ET on WJFF. For more information, visit JanusAdams.com. Subscribe to our podcast on SoundCloud.

Omid Safi is an American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, where he is the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center, and a columnist for On Being. Dr. Safi specializes in Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history. He has served on the board of the Pluralism project at Harvard University and is the co-chair of the steering committee for the Study of Islam and the Islamic Mysticism Group at the American Academy of Religion. Before joining Duke University, Dr. Safi was a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Website: https://onbeing.org/author/omid-safi/ Radical Love Book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300225815/radical-love

This presentation will provide an overview of Duke’s Middle East and Islamic Studies collections; what has been collected, what will be collected and how collections are developed, particularly in conjunction with UNC. There will also be some discussion about the practical aspects of making collections available and the processes involved. Sean Swanick is the Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian. He previously worked at McGill University as the Islamic Studies Liaison Librarian. He holds a MA in Middle East history from the University of Exeter and a Master’s in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University. He’s traveled and studied in Egypt, Oman, Syria and Tunisia and his research interests include book history, codicology and paleography. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

The Ancient Oriental Music Therapy represents a proven system of practical therapeutic, preventative and remedial methods, documented for over 1000 years. Its roots can be found in the shamanic wisdom tradition and in Sufism. Preserved and practiced throughout many centuries it finds today practical use in modern psychology and medicine. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

Mustafa Tuna is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University with secondary appointments in the Department of History and Duke Islamic Studies Center. His research focuses on social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia, especially Russia’s Volga-Ural region and modern Turkey, since the early-nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in identifying the often intertwined roles of Islam, social networks, state or elite interventions, infrastructural changes, and the globalization of European modernity in transforming Muslim communities. His first book, titled Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788-1917 was published by Cambridge University Press as part of its “Critical Perspectives on Empire Series.” Imperial Russia’s Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of Islam, social networks, state interventions, infrastructural changes and the globalization of European modernity in transforming imperial Russia’s oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims. Shifting between local, imperial and transregional frameworks, Tuna reveals how the Russian state sought to manage Muslim communities, the ways in which both the state and Muslim society were transformed by European modernity, and the extent to which the long nineteenth century either fused Russia’s Muslims and the tsarist state or drew them apart. The book raises questions about imperial governance, diversity, minorities, and Islamic reform, and in doing so proposes a new theoretical model for the study of imperial situations.

Michael Reynolds is an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Reynolds presented, "Global Norms, Geopolitics, and the Evolution of Minority Politics in Turkey" at the March 19, 2015 workshop "Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back". The transformations of Turkey’s minority policies over the course of the past century have been intimately bound up with broader geopolitical processes. As a result, the origins, evolution, and contradictions of those policies can only be understood by taking into account changes in the norms of global order and Turkey’s position in the interstate system. This presentation first examines the ways in which the global proliferation of the national idea, great power competition, and imperial collapse interacted to shape the formation of official Turkish nationalism and secularism at the founding of the Turkish Republic. It then explores the synergy over the past decade between the revival of public interest in the Ottoman past, the relative liberalization of policies toward minorities, and the pursuit of a new foreign policy vision. It concludes with observations on how Turkey’s foreign policy setbacks and current external challenges complicate efforts to restructure the place of minorities inside Turkey. The project, “Reasonable Accmommodations?“: Minorities in Globalized Nation States, is a series of four workshops that will take place during the 2014-2015 academic year and will explore religious diversity and minority religious freedoms in different regions of the world. It is directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with the Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office at Duke University.

Nora Fisher Onar is a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford and a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC. Fisher Onar presented "The Cosmo-Politics of Nostalgia: Istanbul, Identity, and Difference" at the March 19, 2015 workshop "Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back". The project, “Reasonable Accmommodations?“: Minorities in Globalized Nation States, is a series of four workshops that will take place during the 2014-2015 academic year and will explore religious diversity and minority religious freedoms in different regions of the world. It is directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with the Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office at Duke University.

Cemil Aydin is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Aydin presented, "Impossibility of the Millet System in the Age of Active Publics: Ottoman Tanzimat, Imperial Citizenship, and Cosmopolitan Pluralism, 1839-1915" at the March 19, 2015 workshop "Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back". This presentation will discuss why Ottoman Tanzimat Era reforms in the millet system, which included granting full equality to non-Muslim citizens of the modernizing empire, eventually failed. It argues that this failure, best symbolised by the image of Sultan Abdulhamid II as an oppressor of his Christian subjects, has global roots and comparable to the failure of imperial citizenship projects in Russian, British, Dutch, Austria-Hungarian, and French Empires. The very technologies that empowered the imperial governments in ruling diverse subjects over large areas, such as steamship, trains, telegraphs and journalism, also empowered reading publics of each empire, making their claims to imperial administration more articulate, globally entangled and organized. The Ottoman millet system tried to adjust to these new technologies of imperial governance by reforming its foundations and its social contract base thoughout the 19th century. What were the achievements and failures of this 19th century Ottoman institutionalisation of religious difference and identity accommodation? How did it transition to the notions of citizenship during the era of Turkish Republic after 1923? The project, “Reasonable Accmommodations?“: Minorities in Globalized Nation States, is a series of four workshops that will take place during the 2014-2015 academic year and will explore religious diversity and minority religious freedoms in different regions of the world. It is directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with the Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office at Duke University.

In this Rethinking Global Cities event, Sibel Bozdogan outlines the shifting landscape of Istanbul over time as designed by political leaders. Sibel Bozdogan is a Lecturer in History of Architecture and Urbanism at Harvard University, and Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture, at Kadir Has University. Bozdogan's interests span cross-cultural histories of modern architecture and urbanism in Europe, America, Mediterranean and the Middle East with a specialization on Turkey. This events collaborators include Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies , Center for European Studies, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International Studies, and John Hope Franklin Center. The Rethinking Global Cities project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age".

This workshop’s two panels will offer new approaches to the comparative study of the Jewish and Muslim communities in Argentina and Brazil, focusing on integration patterns. The workshop is part of the Center for European Studies’ initiative on “Jews & Muslims: Histories, Diasporas, and the Meaning of the European.” The initiative explores new comparative global approaches to the study of Jewish and Muslim communities. Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Duke University Office of the Provost, the workshop is sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Duke University and the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

John Zogby, founder of the "Zogby Poll" and the Zogby Companies speaks at the Sanford School of Public Policy about minorities roll in the 2012 presidential election. This lecture is part of the "Citizenship, Democracy and Elections" series, and is organized by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Duke University Middle East Studies Center.

John Zogby, founder of the "Zogby Poll" and the Zogby Companies answers questions at the Sanford School of Public Policy about minorities roll in the 2012 presidential election. This lecture is part of the "Citizenship, Democracy and Elections" series, and is organized by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Duke University Middle East Studies Center.

Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her series "An Imam in America," which chronicled the life of an immigrant Muslim leader in Brooklyn. Since joining The Times in 2003, Elliott's stories have included an examination of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a series on the lives of Muslims in the military, an investigation into the radicalization of more than 20 Somali-Americans from Minneapolis and special reports for The New York Times Magazine on the lives of Moroccan suicide bombers and the journey of an American jihadist from Alabama to Somalia.Co-sponsors: Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center and DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy

South African musician Roger Lucey’s recordings and performances were routinely censored under apartheid. State security police aimed to destroy his music career, though he remained a celebrated voice of the liberation struggle in the singer-songwriter and rock music traditions. A prominent human rights activist, Ferhat Tunç is one of the iconic figures of “protest music” which emerged as an artistic response to the military coup of 1980 in Turkey. His work is dedicated to progressive internationalism.This project is made possible by a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts Co-sponsors: Concilium on Southern Africa, Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University Center for International Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke Human Rights Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Music and Slavic Languages and Literature