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DESCRIPTION:This talk, "Saints, Companions, and Sinners: Interspecies Histories and Lessons from Islamic Asia," explores interspecies histories from Islamic Asia, learning from communities’ narratives about the entangled relationships among animals, humans, and trees. These accounts of religious and material life not only preserve invaluable ecological knowledge, but also, through multispecies histories, invite us to reconsider academic approaches to environment, care, and kinship, especially in times of climate crises, past and present. As these narratives from Islamic Asia remind us, our current moment of climate crisis calls for fostering a multispecies 'response-ability' for living with, and thinking through, our interconnected present.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nTeren Sevea is the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. He is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia. He 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. \n\n\nSevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which received the 2022 Harry J.Benda Prize, awarded by the Association of Asian Studies. Sevea also co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently completing his second book entitled Islamic Singapore: The Prophets' Ports and Sufism across the Oceans, and is working on his third monograph, provisionally entitled Animal Saints and Sinners: Lessons on Islam and Multispeciesism from the East.\n\n\nSevea has authored book chapters and journal articles that have been published in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, The Indian Economic and Social History Review and Journal of Sufi Studies. In addition to this, Sevea is a coordinator of a multimedia project entitled “The Lighthouses of God: Mapping Sanctity Across the Indian Ocean.”\n
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