Who is the Imam and what is his role in the worldview of Twelver-Shiʿite Muslims? Hadi Qazwini, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California, will present an overview of the multifaceted doctrine of Imamology in...
Experience the beauty of Arabic thuluth style script with our visiting master calligrapher Pablo Casado from Spain. Classes will be held over two Saturdays, April 7 & April 14 at Diyanet Center of America from...
Research Hall, Room 163 In the two years since its publication, the late Shahab Ahmed’s inquiry into What is Islam? has generated much needed debate across multiple fields related to the study of Islam. His erudite proposal...
Johnson Center, George's (3rd Floor above JC Library) In the last two decades, a renewed interest in African Muslims’ forced and voluntary journeys into American continent produced a number of noteworthy publications. Combined with an...
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, the progression of events in the Middle East has provoked new questions on the role of political Islam in the region. The Arab Spring offered Islamist parties the opportunity and...
CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop on; ‘The Past, Present and Future of Shīʿī Ijtihād’ To be held 5th - 6th July 2018 at Al-Mahdi Institute The relatively recent Shīʿī migration to...
Join us for a brown bag lunch as we close the semester with presentations by two of our current Visiting Scholars Ms. Raissa Von Doetinchem de Rand (Princeton University) "Greek Thought and the Limits...
Register/RSVP at meis@gmu.edu Symposium Schedule 12:00 pm Welcome Remarks by Dean Mark Rozell, Jack Goldstone, Bassam Haddad Moderated by Justin Gest and Nadya Sbaiti 12:05 - 1:15 Panel 1: Ongoing Conflicts in the Middle East...
Call for Proposals We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from the sixth century c.e. to the present day, including but not limited...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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:...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline is 03 April 2018) The rise of female Islamic scholarship and leadership in the non-Muslim world is a relatively recent phenomenon that is garnering increasing public attention. Growing opportunities for women...
CALL FOR PAPERS 47th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS) “Impact of Emerging Digital Technology and Social Media on Muslim Communities” Cosponsored By:Middle East and Middle Eastern American...
The Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University invites scholarly papers for a track on education in Muslim societies at its second Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society...
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...
An international conference organised by the Middle East and Central Asia Unit and the Department of Political Studies, Warsaw School of Economics The recent refugee crisis started by the ongoing war in Syria caught Europeans...
