CSI Monday Majlis: Sari Hanafi
Studying Islam in the Arab World
The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research
| An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies research event | |
|---|---|
| Date | 10 March 2025 |
| Time | 17:00 to 18:30 |
| Place | online |
| Provider | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
Event details
Please register for this event using the link below
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/U0lw6AJ1Rba31dRiAox51g
Sari Hanafi is currently a Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American University of Beirut. He was the President of the International Sociological Association (2018-2023). He was the Vice President of the board of the Arab Council of Social Science (2015-2016). Among his recent books are: Studying Islam in the Arab World: The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences (2024 in Routledge); Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise. (with R. Arvanitis) ; The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East (co-edited with A. Salvatore and K. Obuse); He is the winner of 2014 Abdelhamid Shouman Award and 2015 Kuwait Award for social science. In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) form the National University of San Marcos. In 2022 he became International fellow of the British Academy. His forthcoming book “Against Symbolic liberalism: A plea for dialogical sociology” (Liverpool Univ. Press) (His website: https://sites.aub.edu.lb/sarihanafi/)
