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)

It has long been recognised that poverty encompasses multiple aspects of wellbeing,thus, to truly measure it, a multidimensional tool is needed. This need has become further apparent as the impacts of COVID-19 continue to unfold and disrupt different areas of life, which include, among others, challenges in health, access to learning and the learning gap, alongside significant reductions in standards of living. This paper aims to examine multidimensional poverty trends during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, utilising a measure that is based on the Alkire-Foster (AF) method.

This study supports national planners at determining the types and magnitudes of interventions, and the specific population groups that should be targeted to achieve a desired reduction in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) efficiently. In the post COVID era, survey data and MPI methods aim to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on multidimensional poverty. This study proposes models guiding policymakers on the path to recovery from COVID-19 (or any other emerging crisis) and toward meeting the 2030 Agenda Goals, thus ensuring efficient policy action and efficient resource allocation.

What might pose an alternative to party politics, that dominate current politics and narratives of the past? Roughly a century ago, in the aftermath of the first world war, circles of intellectual youths in China explored possibilities for new forms of social and political organization that would lead to both national revival and a new and more peaceful human existence. These explorations soon led to the emergence of mass-based political parties in the 1920s, but for a brief moment between 1919-1921 they also gave rise to a handful of attempts at small, utopian communes.