This seminar will discuss the Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022), which launched in November 2022. The Nigeria MPI (2022) uses data from the Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey 2021/2022, the most extensive multidimensional poverty survey to date, designed to provide nationally representative results from 36 states, FCT Abuja and 109 Senatorial Districts. The MPI survey was carried out between November 2021 and February 2022. The Nigeria MPI (2022) also includes a linked Child MPI which analyses poverty for children under the age of 5.

Seminar 5 - Law

Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) speaking on ‘The Protean Sovereign of Sunni Law’

Lena Salaymeh (University of Oxford) speaking on ‘Reconsidering the Political in Premodern Islam'

Convenors: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College)

Seminar 4 - Violence

Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo) speaking on ‘Debating Militancy in the Modern World’

Murad Idris (University of Michigan) speaking on ‘Theorizing Colonialism, Capitalism, and Violence in an Islamist Key’

Convenors: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College)

Seminar 3 - Sovereignty

Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig) speaking on ‘Islamic imperatives and Islamic rulers’

Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin) speaking on ‘Law and the Exercise of Power: Debates on Political Legitimacy and Authority in the 19th - 20th centuries Egypt’

Convenors: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College)

Seminar 2 - Religion

Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE) speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”’

Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University) speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’

Convenors: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College)

Seminar 1 - Caliphate

Elizabeth Alexandrin speaking on ‘Empire of the End Time: Fāṭimid Sovereignties in the 4th Century AH/11th Century CE’

Hüseyin Yilmaz speaking on ‘The Ottomans and the Question of the Caliphate'

Convenors: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College)