Website and Submission Guidelines Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) publishes original research on a range of issues, including international relations, political science, economics, and Islamic studies, among others. Guidelines Papers should be around...
Following the success of the last two previous Kurdish studies conferences in 2012 and 2015 at the University of Exeter Centre for Kurdish Studies, the next conference event will be held over 2.5 days: 26 –...
About the Seminar Seminar on the 'Qalāndariyya Sufi Order' based in Sehwan where Dr Hasan Ali Khan will draw on his recent research on the medieval motifs of the Qalāndariyya in contemporary Pakistan and their...
English event page. About the Conference Endangerment and destruction of monuments, archaeological sites and objects, whether antique, medieval or modern, in the present Islamicate World, notably in Syria and Iraq, have received a wide –...
Event page. Registration required. About the Panel Donald Trump promoted a nationalist “America First” approach to foreign policy throughout his campaign for the presidency. But in the months since taking office, the president appears to...
This course focuses on current debates in the academic Study of Religion about the role of religion in our globalized world. Theories of secularization are studied in the light of recent research on the resilience...
The 5th annual fiqhī workshop at Al-Mahdi Institute aims to facilitate scholarship directly addressing questions relating to the topic of “violence in Sharī ͑a andits contemporary implications”. The Muslim juristic fiqhī discourse has been framed...
July 9-14, 2017, The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman, Jordan The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for philosophical and theological work by Muslim and Christian philosophy or theology graduate students...
Ticket required About the Course Four Day Calligraphy Course from Sunday 7/9 until Wednesday 7/12 This is a special intensive course offering unique skills in the techniques of Arabic calligraphy taught by the renowned Muslim Chinese calligrapher,...
About the Conference In recent decades, scholarship on the Middle East has benefited from a dynamic approach to the relationship between identities and boundaries. The post-structural turn encouraged us to think beyond bounded communities to...
Registration requested. About the Lecture Erik Khzmalyan will discuss Russia's interaction with Islam during the Tsarist and Soviet periods, Islam after communism, the radicalization of Muslim populations, and Russia's fear of pan-Islamic movements. About the...
The conference “Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era,” jointly organized by the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte and The Society for Reformation Research, will be held 18-21 July 2017 at the Eckstein Haus in Nuremberg,...
Registration required. Course Synopsis This Summer Institute for k12 educators will focus on the themes of identity, colonialism, nationalisms, and Islam in the Middle East. We will be introduced to the modern history and political...
This international symposium will elaborate on how religions have viewed and interpreted their sacred texts throughout their histories with reference to women and gender relations. It will also reveal how experts in religious studies and social...
Speakers List Includes Dr. Ebrahim Moosa Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina Dr. Sheherazade Jafari Dr. Safi Kaskas Dr. Mike Ghouse Ms. Linda Ilham Barto Dr. Sam Hamod Mr. Sami Jamil Jadallah Program/Schedule 8:00-8:50 Light Breakfast- Registration Conference Opens...
Registration required. Part of EISA's 11th Annual Conference in Barcelona Section 24 - Islam in World Affairs: Politics and Paradigms The section addresses the role of Islam in world affairs. It seeks to explore the empirical...
About the Journal The Journal of Iranian Political Studies, a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published in print and online by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and the Iranian Association of Political Science invites quality articles, originating...
About the Conference The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany and one of the most important scholarly Orientalist congresses in the world. The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and...
The development of awqaf projects has become an agenda to enhance the economy of ummah and to boost up the importance of the third sector of economy. The interest on the subject of waqf is...
Conference Website Conference Theme "Managing Hajj, Umrah and Ziarah : Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium" Conference Description The International Conference on Hajj, Umrah and Ziarah (ICHUZ'2017) with the theme "Managing Hajj, Umrah and Ziarah : Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium" is intended to gather academicians and industry...
About the Lecture We are pleased to announce you that our colloquium series will continue with our speaker Dr.Peter Mandaville. His talk "Designating Muslims: Islam in American Governmentality" will explore the various ways in which Muslims have come...
About the Conference Carl Ernst has devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally. From his first book, Words of Ecstasy in Sufism (1985), to his most recent book, co-edited with Fabrizio Speziale, Perso-Indica: An Analytical...
Event Website Registration Required About the Workshop Join us for an exploratory and informal workshop to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and...
2017 Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle East Studies October 12, 2017 The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University is pleased to announce the program of the 2017 Book...
About the Colloquium The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University is pleased to announce the program of the 2017 Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. The...
About the Book When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global...
About the Event This event will feature an introduction from Dr. Larry Butler, Islamic Art historian, and include a presentation and demonstration of Arabic Thuluth script by calligrapher Khalid Casado. Co-sponsored with the Department of...
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) will hold a two-day academic conference on the theme of “Renewal of Islamic Thought: Contemporary Issues” on October 23-24, 2017, at its office in Herndon, Virginia. The conference...
Website Symposium Description The Symposium Islamic Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina would like to point out the importance of artistic and architectural heritage of Islamic arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim is to launch a...
About the 2017 Symposium The question of what the term “Islamic art” means is challenging. Is it even a useful term? Are there any better alternatives? The problem is particularly difficult when addressing modern and...
About the Lecture This talk focuses on the legal codification of dynasties in Arab monarchies between the 1860s and 1930s. In a sweeping survey, it compares how the succession order and the members of the...
Call for Papers: Abstracts due by 15 August 2017 About the Conference With liberal democracy becoming an increasingly important norm in contemporary world, masses constitute significant element in directing state policies. On one hand, the...
About the Lecture The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is...
Section webpage here. Conference Website. Section Description This working group foregrounds theatre and performance in Islamic countries and cultures, and representations of Muslim bodies on stage. Orientalist ‘othering’ into an age of paranoid nationalism has...
Registration required. Conference Website. About the Conference The 2017 Annual Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, November 18–21, hosted by the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, is the world's largest gathering of scholars interested...
In Their Words / In Our Words: A conference about representations of the Other in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia Call for Papers: Abstracts due by July 24 We are proud to welcome...
About the Conference The Qur'an and Tafsir Academy have taken the academic studies on the agenda of the Qur'anic studies as an issue of the year, 2017. Masters and Doctoral theses in the field of...
In Turkey politics is often emotional and emotions are highly politicized. However, a closer look at public and political expressions of emotions shows that distinctive emotions show salience at different decades and under different political...
Please submit at minimum a 250-300-word abstract accompanied by a working bibliography and CV to DukeUNCConf@gmail.com by December 1, 2017. About the Conference Conference will be held 9-10 February, 2018, in Durham, North Carolina. The...
The Ottoman Empire was a vast and diverse entity that spanned centuries and across Anatolia, the Middle East, North Africa, and southern Europe. In this day-long workshop, teachers will explore the historical, political, and cultural...
A lecture by Nobuaki Kondo, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies The Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU (ISI-NYU) provides an intellectual and academic space for NYU faculty members and graduate students to study Iranian history, culture and...
Osmanlı’da İlm-i Tasavvuf: Âlimler, Eserler ve Meseleler İslâm kültür ve medeniyetine dair akademik çalışmalara hakim olan yerleşik anlayış, İslâm düşüncesinin ortaçağlardan itibaren üretkenliğini yitirdiği varsayımına dayanmaktadır. Bu bakış açısının bir neticesi olarak, ortaçağlardan modern dönemlere...
Call for Applications Deadline for Applications: Monday, November 6, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: Friday, November 10, 2017 Application site About the Program The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and its school, The Fairfax Institute, hold...
Anthropology & Aging CfP: Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Research in fields like public health and social work has demonstrated that enhanced well-being as well as positive health and psychosocial outcomes are associated with different aspects...
With Joel Blecher Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad’s sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has...
About the Lecturer Michael Vicente Pérez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on refugees and displacement, nationhood and citizenship, precarity, and everyday life. Dr....
An Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Lecture by Dr. Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
About the Journal The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies and Edinburgh University Press are pleased to announce the launch of AFGHANISTAN, which will be published every Spring and Autumn beginning in April 2018. The Editor-in-Chief...
About the Lecturer Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley worked for 45 years as Curator for Persian and Turkish, initially at the British Museum and then at the British Library, London. His main research specializations are (i)...
About the Lecturer Mounia Chekhab Abudaya is the Curator for Manuscripts and Western Mediterranean Collections, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
About the Course: Shiʿi Islam, with its rich and extensive history, has played a crucial role in the evolution of Islam as both a major world religion and civilization. Shiʿa Muslims account for approximately 15...
About the Lecture "Unpacking the Muslim Bans: A Conversation on Islamophobia in the Courts and the Administration" The Bridge Initiative is excited to co-sponsor with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and GU Law’s Office of Equity,...
The CCAS is excited to partner with George Mason University's Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and the Arab Studies Institute to host a teach-in on global migrations and refugees. The current global policy environment...
About the Event The current global policy environment surrounding migration and immigration reflects urgent humanitarian needs. At the same time, global responses are being shaped by resurgent exclusionist tendencies that also defined earlier migration policies...
About the Lecturer Rocco Rante is an Archaeologist with the Department of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum
Call for Papers Please submit 300-400-word abstracts, including a short biographical statement and a 5-entry bibliography, to Terri Ginsberg and Iman Hamam by August 31, 2017. Acceptance notices will be circulated by October 1, 2017. Participants must submit their completed...
About the Lecture This talk raises the two burning questions in this 50th anniversary of the 1967 War. First, “Is the presence of Israel’s military and settlers in the West Bank an occupation?” An answer...
About the Symposium/Areas of Interest Areas of interest include topics in the context of Sufi studies from multidisciplinary perspectives. This symposium, organized by graduate students, aims to bring together the growing community of researchers and...
About the Speaker Dr. Abdulrahman al-Salimi is currently a Patricia Crone Member of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study working on early Islamic sources. He is currently editing and studying Ibadi texts of the eighth...
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is excited to partner with The Bridge Initiative to host Professor Khaled Beydoun for a talk on his newly published book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of...
Conference on The Global Status of Women and Girls at Christopher Newport University Call for Papers: Abstract Deadline is September 3, 2017 Submissions from any academic discipline are welcome, including, but not limited to, art,...
About the Lecturer Belgin Turan Özkaya is Professor of Architectural History at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
About the Author Dr. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of Religion and Philosophy in the University of Toronto, where he is a member of University...
Le musée du Louvre-Lens présente la toute première rétrospective en Europe continentale consacrée à l’art fastueux de la dynastie des Qajars. Ces brillants souverains régnèrent sur l’Iran de 1786 à 1925. Cette période est l’une des...
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is pleased to announce its 2018 Summer Student Program (SSP), which will be held in the period of June 25 – July 31, 2018. SSP is an intensive,...
About the Lecturer Dr. Abdulrahman al-Salimi is currently a Patricia Crone Member of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study working on early Islamic sources. He is currently editing and studying Ibadi texts of the eighth...
About the Lecturer Neşe Gurallar is Professor, Department of Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
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...
