An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean

National Museum of African Art 950 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, United States

About the Exhibit Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the Swahili coast has been a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence for over one millennium. For centuries, peoples from the Arabian...

Summer School of Kurdish Studies

University of Chicago 5828 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL, United States

Sponsored by Zahra Institute May 25-29, 2018 Venue: University of Chicago, Cobb Lecture Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL www.zahrainstitute.org   Students and professionals interested in Kurdish language and culture are invited to participate in...

Political Theory and the Question of Religion

Politics, School of Social Sciences Arthur Lewis Building, Oxford Road M13, Manchester, United Kingdom

Convenor: Zubair Ahmad, BGSMCS, Freie Universität Contact: zubair@zedat.fu-berlin.de In her recently published book, Liberalism’s Religion (2017), political and legal theorist Cécile Laborde reflects on the “foundational issues about the place of religion in liberal political theory.” In...

OSMANLI’DA İLM-İ TEFSİR SEMPOZYUMU

Istanbul, Turkey

Ottoman Tafsīr: Scholars, Works, Problems The established understanding dominant in academic studies on Islamic culture and civilization is based on the assumption that Islamic thought had lost its productivity since the Middle Ages. As a...

The Army, the Economy, and Discontent in Egypt

Merten Hall, Room 1203 4441 George Mason Blvd, Fairfax, VA, United States

About the Lecture From a political economy approach, this talk follows how Egypt’s military institution has been visibly, or often invisibly, controlling the economy and state in the past three decades. Uniquely in its regional...

Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference

Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University , Turkey

Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference: China and West Asia: Economic Development; and Social and Political Cooperation Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University Cappadocia - TURKEY June 20-22, 2018   Organized by Nevsehir...

Sasanian Sacred Iconography after the Sasanians

University of York

About the Lecture How are we to understand motifs created after the Islamic conquest that refer to Sasanian sacred iconography? Images with Zoroastrian connotations were commissioned and used by non-Zoroastrians in the centuries immediately after...

Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities

Summer Institute for Scholars - 2018 Call for Papers Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities July 11-13, 2018 Herndon, Virginia Background In 2012, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) published Observing the Observer:...

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

Rectorate of the University of Seville Calle San Fernando, 4, Seville, Spain

The Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation welcomes the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018, serving as a meeting point to present, debate...

CfP: Sharia and the Secular

University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Proposals should be sent to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu and must be received by July 30, 2018 About the Conference The SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium invites papers exploring the theme of “Sharia and the Secular.” Does Sharia rule Muslims’...

URD Intensive Course on Shia Studies

Introduction The University of Religions and Denominations with its experience of organizing six intensive international courses on Shia Studies in Iran (Qom) and attracting more than a hundred participants from 42 countries, is organizing the first Shia Studies...

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Conceptualizing Sectarianization

University of Bern

About the Conference Conceptualizing Sectarianization: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Ethno-Religious Difference in Studying the Middle East and North Africa Demarcating a given community on the basis of its confessional identity or religious denomination has...

The Reach of Empire – The Early Islamic Empire at Work

Universität Hamburg

About the Conference As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference shall invite participants to examine the reach...