The Boston IS and Apocalyptic Conference

July 16th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

You can see the entire series of CMS 2015 Conference videos

  • here

    • In particular and given my own special interests, I recommend the talks by

  • Will McCants (on IS eschatology)

  • Cole Bunzel (on the 1979 Mahdist assault on Mecca), and

  • David Cook (on Islamic apocalyptic and Boko Haram)

    • You can follow those up with such friends and worthies as Tim Furnish, JM Berger, and (on Palestinian messaging) Itamar Marcus — Itamar’s brilliant presentation shifted my thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian question by about ten degrees.

    My own contribution is

  • here

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    My recent discombobulations (see previous post) and an over-busy writing schedule have prevented me from posting separately on each of the talks at the conference, which I had hoped to do — but McCant’s forthcoming book will soon be with us, and this brief introduction (and my three reading lists) will hopefully provide background while we await it.

    The book I brought with me, for (heh!) light reading, was A. Azfar Moin‘s The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam. Path-breaking, scholarly, intelligent, unfailingly curious, written with grace — a true delight!

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