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Dr. Barbara Brown Zikmund Visits Campus
March 15, 2016
Former Hartford Seminary President Dr. Barbara Brown Zikmund returned to campus Monday, March 14, to visit and see the great progress made over the last 16 years. Hartford Seminary’s first female President, and the first female President of any seminary in the United States, Dr. Zikmund led Hartford Seminary from 1990-2000.
General HIU News
Video Promotes Islamic Chaplaincy Program
March 7, 2016
Hartford Seminary’s Islamic Chaplaincy Program is featured in an exciting new four-minute video produced by student Taha El-Nil in conjunction with Prof. Feryal Salem, one of the program’s co-directors.
Faculty In The News
Faculty in the News - March 2016
March 2, 2016
Prof. Najib Awad will present a paper on Saturday, April 2, at the annual conference of the New England Maritimes Region of the American Academy of Religion (NEMAAR) held at the Boston College School of Theology & Ministry. His paper is titled : “Interreligiosity as a Realist Learning Engagement: Theodore Abū Qurrah, ʽAlī b. Rabbān aṭ-Ṭabarī, Two Comparative Theologians from Early Islam?”
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New York Times 'Beliefs' Column Quotes Prof. Yahya Michot
February 19, 2016
Mark Oppenheimer’s “Beliefs” column for Feb. 19, 2016, tackles a complicated subject: Facebook Post Revives Debate on Whether Monotheists Worship Same God.
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Prof. Feryal Salem Interviewed on WNPR's 'Where We Live'
February 12, 2016
“What is a caliphate?” That question began host John Dankosky’s latest interview with Prof. Feryal Salem, who educated listeners on that term and others during the WNPR radio show “Where We Live” on Feb. 12, 2016.
Faculty In The News
Faculty in the News - February 2016
February 10, 2016
On February 22, Prof. Yahya Michot, who is on sabbatical this semester, was in Doha, at the invitation of the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, to participate in a Symposium on “Ibn Sina’s Contributions to Human Civilization.” He gave a paper titled “Ibn Sina in the West. From Toledo and Venice to Oxford and New York.”
Campus Events
Sufi Singing Group Lifts Spirits
February 4, 2016
Hartford Seminary welcomed an internationally known singing group from Morocco on Feb. 3, 2016. Six members of the acapella group, under the direction of Dr. Mohammed Thami Alharak, performed before a full house, about half of which had never heard Sufi music before.
General HIU News
Hartford Seminary Adds Ph.D. to its Degree Offerings
January 27, 2016
For more than a century, the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations has embodied Harford Seminary’s commitment to the study of Islam and Christianity and the complex relationship between the two religions throughout history.
Faculty In The News, General HIU News
Historic Shi'i Chair Celebrated at Inauguration BanquetJanuary 22, 2016
The first academic chair dedicated to Shi’i Studies in North America had its formal debut on January 22, 2016, at an inauguration banquet at Hartford Seminary. Friends, family and supporters of the chair’s first occupant, Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakhjavani, were in attendance to mark the historic occasion, as well as students, donors and fellow academics from around the world, including the U.S. and Canada, Europe and Iran.
Campus Events
Presentations and Conversations on the Social Ethics of PeaceJanuary 19, 2016
Three distinguished scholars from Iran participated in a wide-ranging conversation at Hartford Seminary last weekend during a conference called “The Social Ethics of Peace: An Interfaith Conversation.”