• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Kevin Fogg
• Timing: 5pm on Wednesdays

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oil markets and the political economy of reform in Saudi Arabia
  Professor Bassam Fattouh (Oxford and SOAS)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Religion and the rise and fall of Islamic science
  Dr Eric Chaney (Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Islam instrumentalised: religion and politics in historical perspective
  Professor Jean-Philippe Platteau (Namur)

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What does the global shift in economic power mean for smaller states? Implications of China’s belt and road initiative
  Professor Danny Quah (Singapore )

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How much do doctrinal debates and the early historical disputes matter in Sunni-Shi’i relations?
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Oxford)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Shades of sovereignty: explaining political order and disorder in Pakistan’s northwest
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (KCL)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Foreign aid and state building in a fragile context: Afghanistan after 9/11
  Dr Nemat Bizhan (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exploring a new research frontier: what can field experiments tell us about Islamic finance?
  Dr Simon Quinn (Oxford)

Friday 23 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Trade and tolerance: what can we learn from South India?
  Dr Saumitra Jha (Stanford)