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Majority Rule and Wide Consultation among the Living and the Dead in the Early Empires in China

Democratic Imaginaries in Late Antiquity

Voting from the Rooftops: Reflections on Religion and Politics from Mughal India

Voting the Divine

April 27, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person in 370 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Abhishek Kaicker, Associate Professor, Department of History

Given the apparent lack of engagement with Greco-Roman thought on democracy and republicanism in India before modernity, in what way might we relate a history of voting the divine in the region? In this lecture I will suggest that despite the absence of practices such as voting, we may observe the entanglement of the practices […]

Voting from the Rooftops: Reflections on Religion and Politics from Mughal India

Consensus and Early Islamic Law

Voting the Divine

April 12, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person in 3335 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Asad Q. Ahmed, Professor; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

This lecture investigates democratic approaches to legal formulations in Islam from the perspective of the principle of consensus. Accepted as having probative force in practically all Islamic legal traditions, the principle is often understood in pre-modern and modern literature as a means of establishing positive law by appeal to the customary practices in a region […]

Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on the Interaction Between 'Politics' and 'Religion' in Ancient Greece

Voting the Divine

February 22, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person at Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited to 35 guests. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Josine Blok, Professor of Ancient History and Classical Civilization, Utrecht University

Looking for ‘politics’ and ‘religion’ in the past, we tend to see reflections of ourselves, of what we unintentionally assume the two spheres of life to be. Taking ‘we’ to be citizens of present-day western democracies, we are deeply familiar with how in the last two centuries ‘politics’ and ‘religion’ have shaped our societies and […]

Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on the Interaction Between 'Politics' and 'Religion' in Ancient Greece

Must a Caliph be Popular? The Theological and Legal Ramifications of Early Muslim Leadership Selection

Voting the Divine

January 20, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person at Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies and Principal Investigator on the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam Project, University of Exeter

After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Muslim community began to debate his successor. The various factions, and the events which followed were to reverberate through the centuries – debates around the proper qualities of a leader, how the leader should be selected, and when and how might the people depose this leader dominated […]

Must a Caliph be Popular? The Theological and Legal Ramifications of Early Muslim Leadership Selection

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