Approach the concept, phenomenon and practice of Islamophobia from a number of different angles through a speaker panel. Panel speakers include: Hanadi Doleh, Program Director at Park51 Tahera Ahmad, Director of Interfaith Engagement, Northwestern University...
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,...
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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/symposium-muslim-african-intellectual-history Please mark your calendars and join us in hosting a number of African scholars on Monday, March 27th, 2:00-5:00 for a small symposium on Muslim African intellectual history. This event is sponsored by the...
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...
Behind the Veil: Women Fighting Fundamentalism under the Taliban The Intercultural Film Series showcases films from and about a diverse array of communities and cultures. Films in the series are selected based on their ability to...
International Conference Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text Tübingen, 30 March to 1 April 2017 http://www.spatial-thought.uni-tuebingen.de/ Convenors Kurt Franz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) Zayde Antrim (Trinity College, Hartford,...
This annual event is named in honor of Taha Al-Alwani, a leading scholar of Islamic law and philosophy, who passed away last year.This year’s event features two renowned scholars who will address the issue of:...
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 Modern...
Registration requested. Dr. Megan Abbas, Geneseo History professor, will be the speaker for this seminar. According to many political and media sources, the West and the Islamic World are currently engaged in a global confrontation over...
The established understanding dominated by academic studies on Islamic culture and civilization rests on the assumption that Islamic thought had lost its productivity from the middle ages onwards. As a result of this perspective, it...
Registration requested. Please join Prof. Maria Dakake for a public talk entitled "Encountering the Divine through His Most Beautiful Names in Islamic Contemplative Practice". This talk will examine contemplative practices related to the names of...
Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies (SIS), will screen part of his new film "Journey into Europe" and engage the audience in a discussion. "Journey into Europe" explores Islam in Europe and the...
Investigating Middle Eastern televised fiction in shaping popular culture Prelude to conference includes showings of Middle Eastern productions Middle Eastern-produced television serials are a billion-dollar industry, and one that has stirred controversy among audiences in...
Registration requested. Description Learn how to interact with Muslims in America to ensure comfort and to convey solidarity. This dynamic diversity training will provide the insight and resources necessary to be an ally. We will...
Registration requested. About the Lecture At this moment in our nation’s history, there is an unprecedented need for interreligious education and engagement around Islam. In the second lecture in this series, Engy Abdelkader will examine...
The Diyanet Islamic Research Institute at Diyanet Center of America (DCA), in cooperation with the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, presents a colloquium focusing on history, memory, and identity...
Ticketed Event. Description This session will guide participants to become a successful ASL interpreter in Muslim settings. Participants will gain knowledge and understanding with the language and customs involved. They will learn about Islamic signs...
9:30am. Session 1. State Institutions, Muftiates and the Teaching of Islam Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University) At The Crossroads of the Religious and Regime Security: The Teaching Of Islam In Uzbekistan Kamal Gasimov (CAP Fellow)...
This workshop gathers scholars who are interested in the myriad recent critiques of secularism spanning a variety of academic fields: history, political science, anthropology, comparative literature, etc. Our aim is to discuss the various motives...
Registration requested. Already during the first two centuries of Islam Muslim ascetics-mystics (Sufis) used Qur'anic recitation as a means to extract its exoteric, allegorical senses. This exoteric reading of the Scripture would often result in...
Speakers include: * Tuna Artun (Rutgers) * Nahyan Fancy (DePauw) * Paula Findlen (Stanford) * Noah Gardiner (U South Carolina) * Harun Kucuk (University of Pennsylvania) * Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U South Carolina) * Robert Morrison...
Ticket required. About Discover the Qalam (Arabic wooden pen) and let it take you on a journey to learn how to write in Eastern Kufic Calligraphy on Manuscripts together with well-established calligrapher Vahid Jazayeri with...
Lecture led by Noah Salomon.
Speaker Enass Khansa is a Harvard AKPIA Associate; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University; The Santiago Cathedral Project (Spain) Website.
Event website. Dr. Ibrahim Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, and What Is a Madrasa?
Islamophobia is most commonly understood to be a problem that impacts adversely on Muslim minorities living in Western countries. The growing literature on Islamophobia has contributed to this understanding by focusing on the role of...
Event website. The number of mosques in Denmark is rising steadily. The number has increased by almost 50 per cent since 2006 and many things indicate that quite substantial changes have taken place in the...
The aim of the international conference Translators, copyists and interpreters: Jews, Christians and Muslims and the transmission of the Bible in Arabic in the Middle Ages is to foster an international and interdisciplinary cooperation on...
The ICAIS 2017: 19th International Conference on Arabic and Islamic Studies aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of...
This book is a study of the role mystical discourse and experience can play in Christian-Muslim dialogue as a subset of interfaith dialogue in general. It concentrates on the work of two great medieval mystic...
Lecture led by Elizabeth Hurd.
The Center for Islamic Studies at the GTU invites you to “Scholarship, Leadership, Activism: Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union” on Thursday, May 4, at 9:00 am in the GTU Library’s Dinner Board Room at 2400 Ridge Road. This first annual CIS student symposium will feature presentations from more than 15 current students and graduates of the GTU’s MA and PhD programs in Islamic Studies. Panel discussions will explore five themes: Studying the Islamic Tradition in Academia, Researching Muslim Diversity and Identity, Teaching and Pedagogy in Islamic Studies, Engaging the Public Sphere, and Expressing Faith through Creativity and the Arts. The all-day conference will conclude with a keynote address by CIS Director Munir Jiwa. Review a full schedule of topics and featured presenters here, and then join us this Thursday to learn more about the vital scholarship being done by students and alumni of the Center for Islamic Studies at the GTU!
Event website. This conference aims systematically to take stock of the state of the field in Qur'anic manuscript studies and assess its broader significance. The conference hopes to consider the new directions provided to the...
Registration requested. About the Lecture At this moment in our nation’s history, there is an unprecedented need for interreligious education and engagement around Islam. Much of the fear-mongering around Muslims is grounded in a deep...
Welcome to the website of the UCSIA Summer School Religion, Culture and Society: Entanglement and Confrontation. In 2017 our programme is dedicated to the topic Economic Realities, Social Justice & Faith Traditions (27th of August until 2nd...
It has long been known that in the centuries leading up to the emergence of Islam, various religions, both monotheistic and otherwise, were practiced in the Arabian peninsula. The Muslim tradition itself, for example, describes...
Searching for the Divine in Contemporary Islamic Art, an exhibition of paintings by newly juried Torpedo Factory Artists’ Association member Ahmed Ansari, will be on display in TAG (Gallery 311) from May 26 – June...
Thursday 6:00-8:00 pm Opening Reception, Platt 99 8:00-8:30 pm Alexander Hotel Art Tour, Lobby Friday Studying and Teaching American Religion in the 21st Century 8:30-10:00 am Alexander Ballroom Nones Even casual observers of American religion...
The Middle Eastern Studies Association, in partnership with Ben Gurion University of the Negev, will hold a two-day conference on the theme of "Rethinking Islam at the Turn of the 21st Century: Liberal Trends, Agents...
İstanbul Bilgi University will be holding a conference on the theme of "Contextualizing History Writing in the Ottoman and Indian Worlds (C.1400-1850)" on June 10th-11th at its İstanbul campus. The conference is organized by İstanbul Bilgi...
Faith in Film: Refugees and Islamophobia Sunday, June 11 & Thursday, June 15 Please join us on Sunday, June 11, at 6:30 pm for a special evening as part of a nationwide film series showcasing...
Panel Description Conference Website Panel Description This panel will examine the importance of inter-maslak identities among South Asian Muslims historically and at the present time. Maslak—Deobandi, Barelwi, and Ahl-i Hadith, among others—is the term commonly used by Sunni...
This is a Call for Abstracts to contribute to the Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (target publication: 2018). We are particularly interested in contributions from early career scholars from around the world....
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...
