Dr. Sheibani’s recent and upcoming events: where to find her and where she’s been.
Upcoming Events
14 - 20 December, 2024
Spain Tour
Reviving the Sunna in Our Lives and Communities
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Saturday, December 14, 2024
Alqueria de Rosales, Granada
4pmOur first session will explore the exemplary virtues constituting the “inward Sunna” of the Prophet Muhammad and what it means to 'acquire' these traits. We'll review our tradition's theory of character formation and transformation to gain clarity on how our life experiences and the interpersonal challenges we face are opportunities to become imbued by Prophetic virtues and to grow closer to Allah.
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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Azahara, Órgiva
4pmHow do we balance Prophetic virtues in our lives and relationships, especially when faced with competing values and needs? Our third session will explore the common tension between the teachings of forgiveness, on the one hand, and seeking justice, setting boundaries, and reducing harm, on the other. Some of the questions we'll explore include: What is the model of Prophetic forgiveness and how can we balance it with seeking justice and interpersonal boundary setting? How do we forgive and let go while processing hurt or when harm is ongoing?
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Wednesday December 18, 2024
Mezquita de la Vega, Granada
4pmThe teaching of "enjoining good and forbidding wrong” is core to Muslim faith and practice. However, common understandings in the Muslim community today appear to be intrusive and may push people out of the community. This session will explore the Prophetic framework for enjoining good and forbidding evil (i.e.: who does it? about what? when? how?). We’ll discuss what role can each of us play in being “keys that open good and locks that shut down evil” - as the Prophetic parable praises - in our personal lives, families, and communities.
Lecture
Grand Mawlid
A Celebration of Mercy
Training
Exploring Community Values: Gender Dynamics in Cultural and Religious Contexts
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A training with the MIT-MSA on best-practices on working in community and negotiating gendered and cultural norms.
Training
Islamic Law and Legal Theory
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A hybrid course for American Muslim leaders, chaplains and Imams.
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What is Sufism?
A Brief History and Overview
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A two-part lecture introducing the science of insane through an overview of its history and core teachings and methods
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Exploring Manhood and Womanhood in Islam
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An exploration of manhood and womanhood with students and young professionals at the Islamic Center of Boston Wayland.
Past Events
Online Course
Prophetic Virtues Off the Page: Balancing Sunna in Our Lives
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How should we operationalize and balance Prophetic virtues in our lives and relationships, especially when faced with competing values and needs?
When we learn the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (saws), we’re uplifted and inspired, but we may also feel that its lessons are unattainable or difficult to implement in our lives. The notes we take live in our notebooks and rarely make it off the page.
When we try to implement what we’ve learnt, we encounter situations where various values and needs appear in tension, or seem paradoxical, making it difficult to know how to operationalize the Sunna in our lives, families, and communities.
Lecture
Feminism: Past, Present, and Future
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An exploration of feminism and Muslim engaged with it. Presented to university students and young professionals through the IQRA Fellowship.
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Litanies & Habit-Formation: Reflections from Book X of al-Ghazali’s Ihya
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A two-part lecture exploring lessons on structuring the devotional life from Book X of al-Ghazali’s “Revival of the Religious Sciences”
Research
“What’s in a Tariqa? Transmission and Authority in the Shafiʿi Madhhab”
Training
Is Domestic Violence Ever Islamic? Making sense of 4;34, Islamic Law and Ethics
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Dates to come soon
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Trainings for Imams, Muslim Mental Health Professionals, and community members on understanding Q 4.34 and the wider approach of Islamic law and ethics for addressing family violence and building healthy families and communities.
Research
A Tale of Two Tariqas: The Iraqi and Khurasani Shafiʿi Communities in the 10th-11h centuries
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The MEI “Sharīʿa Workshop” is a workshop on Islamic law that brings together faculty and graduate students from Columbia and other universities for intensive discussions of new research by leading specialists invited from the US and abroad.
Retreat
Balancing the Letter, Spirit, and Practice of Islamic Law
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A three-day retreat for women to deepen their connection with God through practical knowledge, contemplation, lived experiences and supportive companionship.
Online Training
Contexts of Islamic Psychology: Negotiating Tradition & Reality
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A twelve-week module training in key topics of Islamic law and ethics for Muslim mental health practitioners
Online Course
Intimacy in Invocation: Exploring the Theology and Art of Duʿaʾ
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Join Dr. Mariam Sheibani and a community of women in a four-week online course examining our relationship with duʿaʾ and renewing intimate invocation as a grounding spiritual practice in our lives.
