BILDEV’s panel “The Shadow of the Millet: Islamic Political Theology and the Afterlives of Ottoman Pluralism” has been accepted for the BRAIS Symposium 2026: Islamic Studies Across Divides in an Era of Crisis and Global Injustice.

The symposium is co-hosted by the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and Boğaziçi University, and will take place on 24–25 January 2026 at Boğaziçi University, South Campus, Istanbul.

Our panel will be held on Day 1, 24 January, at 1:45 PM. We welcome everyone interested in the field to join us.

Chair: Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman (Lincoln University)

Yakoob Ahmed (BİLDEV): Between Sharia and Citizenship: Islamic Political Theology and the Question of Equality in the Ottoman Empire

Selçuk Aydın (Boğaziçi University): Historical Coherence Through Contradiction: Nationalism and Islam under the Spirit of Ottoman Solidarity

Behar Sadriu (University College London), Adem Ferizaj (SOAS), Occupy the master’s house: Kaleshi’s epistemologies against the omission of Islam in postcolonial readings of Europe

Owais Khan (Sabahattin Zaim University/BİLDEV), The Shadow of the Millet: Liberal Multiculturalism and the Muslim as Liberal Memory

Program Details

📅 Date: 24–25 January 2026
📍 Location: Boğaziçi University, South Campus, Istanbul
🕒 BILDEV Panel: 24 January, 1:45 PM
🔗 Details: https://www.brais.ac.uk/symposium/symposium-2026-programme