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We discuss how AI technologies mediate religious expression in the digital age and the implications of blending sacred and secular visual vocabularies in the pursuit of piety. This is the second event in the GISC \u201cMuslims in the Digital Age\u201d series.\r\n\r\nChristoph G\u00fcnther has a background in Islamic Studies, Arabic and History and is currently conducting research on the ways in which Muslim actors employ (moving) images on social media platforms to articulate their interpretation of how Islam should be lived, proclaimed and interpreted. He combines his media analyses with an ethnographic approach to the ways in which Muslim practitioners engage with such imagery in the course of their religious and media practices\r\n\r\nPlease note - this event has been moved entirely online. If you registered using the google form we will automatically add you as a registrant for the Zoom Webinar. 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The New Preachers' Islamic media inspired a \"revolution within\" that transcended the country's divisions and anticipated the ethos of creativity, solidarity, and coexistence that soon would mark Tahrir Square, the ethical epicenter of the 2011 uprising. Vividly written and boldly theorized, The Revolution Within challenges conventional accounts of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath as a struggle between secular and religious forces, reconsidering what makes a practice virtuous, a public Islamic, a way of life Godly.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n About the author:\r\n \r\n Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Anthropology. Her new book, *The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt*, is out with Stanford University Press in the series Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. 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As a result, police inspector Fathi, with the help of his doctor friend Amine, tries to understand the enigmatic and bizarre circumstances that led to the missing people\u2019s initial disappearances and unexpected return. As the investigation deepens, a police inspector from the capital, Omar, arrives to solve the mystery. Will Omar and his accomplices bring understanding or further complicate matters? \r\n\r\nAla Eddine Slim is a Tunisian filmmaker. He has directed several short films, art videos, and feature films, selected and multi-awarded in many international film festivals: Clermont-Ferrand, Grand Prix FID Marseille for BABYLON (2012), Lion of the Future, Best Technical Contribution at the Venice Film Festival in 2016, and Tanit d\u2019Or at JCC for THE LAST OF US (2016). TLAMESS (2019), his second fiction film, had its world premiere at Quinzaine des R\u00e9alisateurs. 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His second book, *Bor\u00edcua Muslims: The Everyday Lives of Puerto Rican Converts to Islam* is out now with the University of Texas Press (2025); and his third book, the edited anthology *Engaged Spirituality: Stories of Religious Inspiration, Resilience, and Work for the Common Good* is due out with Bloomsbury (2026). Chitwood\u2019s academic work focuses on Islam and religion in the Americas, Latinx Muslims, Christian-Muslim relations, global Christianity, Muslim minorities, and ethnographic methods and manifestations of religion-beyond-religion in a global and digital age. 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Awartani's research appears in a variety of peer-reviewed and public-facing forums, including Radical History Review; Kalfou: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Journal; Society & Space; Middle East Report; and\u201d Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader.\u201d Her research has received support across subfields, including the Puerto Rican Studies Association and the Arab American National Museum, with additional recognition by the Ford Foundation and the Latin American Studies Association.\r\n \r\n \r\nLawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of *Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora* (2009) and *Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance* (2021). His books of fiction include *U\u00f1as pintadas de azul\/Blue Fingernails* (2005) and *Abolici\u00f3n del pato* (2015). He appears as Lola von Miramar in the YouTube series *Cooking with Drag Queens*.\r\n\r\nAliyah Khan (moderator) is Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC), and Associate Professor of English, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She specializes academically in postcolonial Caribbean and Muslim literatures, and she has also published creative nonfiction in *Guernica* and various anthologies. Khan\u2019s award-winning book *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (2020) is the first scholarly monograph on the comparative history, literature, and music of enslaved African Muslims and indentured Indian Muslims in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Her interviews have appeared in and on *NPR*, the *Washington Post*, *Times of India*, *Sky TV (UK)*, *NCN Guyana Broadcasting*, *Bayt al Fann*, and other venues.\r\n \r\nThis event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored at U-M by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the Islamophobia Working Group (IWG), the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Program in American Culture, the Latina\/o Studies Program in American Culture, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL).\r\n \r\nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu\/islamicstudies\r\n\r\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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We will also put up a sign on the venue door, but we hope to alert folks before tomorrow. \r\n\r\nWe hope to offer this event again in another semester and will follow up once a new date is confirmed.\r\n\r\nThank you for your understanding.\r\n\r\n____________________________________________\r\n\r\nJoin the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) for \"Mary in the Qur'an,\" a book talk on the figure of the Islamic Mary (Maryam) by Dr. Younus Y. Mirza.\r\n \r\n Dr. Mirza will be discussing his latest book The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries (Fortress Press, 2025), which examines the appearances of Mary, mother of Jesus (Isa) in various Islamic theological and cultural contexts. Mary has been historically revered throughout the Islamic and Christian traditions. In the Qur\u2019an, she is known by the name \u201cMaryam.\u201d The Islamic Mary discusses Maryam's extended history, from her scriptural mentions in the Qur\u2019an and the traditional biographies (S\u012brah) of the Prophet Muhammad, to her appearances in medieval debates on prophecy, to citations of her model virtue in Sufi discussions of piety, to her representations in art and film, to her role in modern interfaith relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians.\r\n \r\n Dr. Mirza will be introduced by Abderrahim Er-ragragi, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Middle East Studies and Co-organizer, Rackham Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS).\r\n \r\n \r\n Dr. Mirza\u2019s publisher Fortress Press is pleased to offer to talk attendees and colleagues a 30% discount code for buying the book. The code is MIRZA30, valid at FortressPress.com until January 31, 2026.\r\n \r\n Meet the speaker:\r\n \r\n Dr. Younus Y. Mirza is the Founding Director of the Barzinji Institute for Global Virtual Learning at Shenandoah University, Virginia. He defended his dissertation in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, where he is currently a visiting researcher. He has also taught at Millsaps and Allegheny Colleges. His research focuses on the relationship between the Bible and the Qur\u2019an and the shared stories between them. He is the author of the new book The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries, co-author of the book The Bible and the Qur\u2019an: Biblical Figures in the Islamic Tradition, and has published in journals such as the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR), the Journal of Qur\u2019anic Studies (JQS) and Islam Christian-Muslim Relations (ICMR). He has been profiled for his teaching by Interfaith America, and regularly teaches classes on the Qur\u2019an and Bible, and Marriage and Sexuality in Islam. Dr. Mirza was recently Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, and hosts the A Common Word and The Islamic Mary podcasts.\r\n \r\n \r\n This event is brought to you by the U-M Global Islamic Studies Center. The talk is part of GISC\u2019s ongoing \u201cQahwah & Authors\u201d series, which launches new books and writers in the fields of Muslim and Islamic Studies. For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu\/islamicstudies.\r\n\r\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"GISC Conference. Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions: February 6-7, 2026 | Cahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104", "event_subtitle":"February 6-7, 2026 | Cahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104", "event_type":"Conference \/ Symposium", "event_type_id":"5", "description":"Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions\nFebruary 6-7, 2026\nCahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104\nVisit https:\/\/myumi.ch\/9p8xx for full conference details.\n\nThe Nature and Islamic Creative Expressions conference, organized jointly by Aliyah Khan, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and Associate Professor, and Christiane Gruber, Professor in the Department of the History of Art and founder of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on February 6-7, 2026. A dozen scholars and practitioners of global Islamic art and narratives will examine Islam\u2019s relationship to the natural world over the centuries and consider how Islamic thought and Muslim traditions offer alternative solutions to today\u2019s ecological challenges.\n \n We study and leverage the intersections of ecology and spirituality by drawing on the deep knowledge of diverse fields, including art history, Islamic philosophy and theology, Muslim cultural studies, literary studies, architecture, and community activism in locales from the Ottoman Empire to Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Trinidad. Our aim is to identify what historical and contemporary Islamic perspectives on nature offer to unfolding global conversations about the earth and our shared and symbiotic human, animal, and plant futures, thus building sustainable futures and potentially interrupting the Anthropocene.\n \n Featuring the work of:\n Christiane Gruber | University of Michigan, Organizer\n Aliyah Khan | University of Michigan, Organizer\n Omolade Adunbi | University of Michigan\n Katherine Bartsch | University of Adelaide, Australia\n Patricia Blessing | Stanford University\n Gohar Dashti | Visual Artist\n Anna M. Gade | University of Wisconsin, Madison\n Sune Haugb\u00f8lle | Roskilde University, Denmark\n Charlotte Maury | Louvre Museum, Paris\n Mohamed Amer Meziane | Brown University\n Amanda Phillips | University of Virginia\n Elizabeth Rauh | The American University in Cairo\n Saleema Waraich | Skidmore College\n\n*Friday, February 6, 2026: Past and Present*\n\nWelcome (9:30AM-10AM): Christiane Gruber and Aliyah Khan \n\nMorning Panel 1 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Collecting, Draining, and Drowning in Water\nPatricia Blessing, \u201cIndoor, Outdoor, and in Between: Water in Ottoman Mosques\u201d\nElizabeth Rauh, \u201cDraining Eden: The Ecocide of the Iraqi Wetlands\u201d\nAliyah Khan, \u201cMuharram in the Caribbean: Drowned Model Tombs and the Oceanic Return to Karbala\u201d\nModerator: Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Director, Arab and Muslim American Studies Program\n\nLunch (12:00PM-1:30PM) \n\nAfternoon Panel 2 (1:30PM-3:30PM): Plant Vitalities\nAmanda Phillips, \u201cPerfection in Bloom: Ottoman Writing About Flowers, 1650-1750 CE\u201d\nChristiane Gruber, \u201cGod's Greenhouses: Agricultural Mosques and Phyto-Aesthetics in Rural Anatolia\u201d\nCharlotte Maury, \u201cVisual Representations of the Vital Force of Plants in Islamic Art and its Relation to Animality\u201d\nModerator: Paroma Chatterjee, Chair, Department of the History of Art \n\n*Saturday, February 7, 2026: Futurities*\n\nMorning Panel 3 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Green Futures\nSaleema Waraich, \u201cFrom the \u2018City of Gardens\u2019 to \u2018Smog Capital of the World\u2019: Ecological Dystopias and Imaginaries in Lahore, Pakistan\u201d\nMohamed Amer Meziane, \u201cWho Makes the Anthropocene: Islam, Ecology, and the Environmental History of *Orientalism\u201d*\nGohar Dashti, \u201cGeometries of Belonging: A New Look at Nature Through an Eastern Perspective\u201d\nModerator: Aseman Talebi, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the History of Art \n\nLunch (12:00PM-1:30PM)\n\nAfternoon Panel 4 (1:30PM-3:30PM): Oil and Desert Ecologies\nOmolade Adunbi, \u201cThe Art of Oil Resistance in the Niger Delta\u201d\nKatherine Bartsch, \u201cEphemeral Mosques: Mapping a Network of Faith in Australia\u2019s Unforgiving Desert Interior\u201d\nSune Haugb\u00f8lle, \u201cNeom\/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia\u201d\nModerator: Sena Duran, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Culture \n\nBreak (3:30PM-3:45PM)\n\nClosing Remarks (3:45PM-4:30PM): Anna Gade\n\nTo read about the papers being presented, speaker bios, & to register to attend, please visit: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/9p8xx \n The Nature and Islamic Creative Expressions conference is free and open to all University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, and the public. 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