King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies conference entitled “’An unjust ruler is better than continued sedition’ -- Political Quietism in Sunni, Shia and Sufi Jurisprudence: The Classics and the Contemporary. The conference is...
Similar to its several conferences in the past, using Maqasid of the Shariah as its frame of reference to address topical issues of universal concern, the Department this time also chooses the timely issue of...
Dr. Omid Safi, Director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center, will examine the spiritual depths of Islam, the misguided association of Islam to terrorism, and the pitfalls of xenophobia. Omid Safi is the Director of...
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) invites you to attend our second annual conference to take place on March 24-25, 2017 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Through a series of papers, panel sessions,...
Religious and ethnic discrimination has a significant history in the West from the Inquisition which targeted Muslims and Jews in the Iberian Peninsula to the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US, among others. Islamophobia is...
Recent decades have seen increasing global connectedness and rapid changes in Islamic belief and practice in China, across a sphere characterized by great diversity in histories of transmission, socioeconomic factors, language and life-ways. What insights...
https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/islam-and-muslims-media In today's political climate, how are Islam and Muslims portrayed in the media? Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsor this in-depth conference featuring insights and commentary from top...