Event Details

Join us as we welcome Dr Nebil Husayn as we hold a learning circle entitled “Master of the Art of Debate: A Seminar on Imam Jawad“.

This programme will be face to face and streamed online.

We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv

If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk

Speaker

Nebil Husayn is a specialist in the field of Islamic studies. His research explores authoritarianism in the Middle East, debates on the caliphate, and the development of Islamic thought. Husayn also serves as a Senior Research Advisor for Mipsterz, an arts and culture collective curating, enabling, and amplifying artists of marginalized backgrounds through illustration, film, and music. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award and the University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities. Husayn obtained his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University. He is the author of Opposing the Imam (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which examines the history of early Muslims who were hostile to Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, and his descendants.

Husayn enjoys teaching a variety of courses and topics. They include the legacy of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers of New York (AAS 390/REL 372), early Islamic history (REL 271), gender (GSS 350/REL 371), Muslim spirituality and geopolitics (REL 370), atheism, and faith-based claims that invite skepticism (REL 102 and REL 104).