CANCELED - due to unforeseen circumstances.
A talk by Teren Sevea (Harvard Divinity School) on his new book,
Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
Discussant: Verena Hanna Meyer, Early Career Fellow, Department of Religion
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Muslim Societies; the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; and the Middle East Institute
Teren Sevea is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School. Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (2009).
