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

What Comes After the Critique of Secularism?

Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion 4327 Dwinelle Hall, MC 2510 , Berkeley, CA, United States

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...

“Qur’anic Exegesis and Mystical Experience: Sufis and the Qur’an”

Minor Hall, Room 125 Charlottesville, VA, United States

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...

Workshop: Kufic Arabic Calligraphy

Alserkal Avenue Street 8, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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...

“Aesthetics and the Cenotaphic in Medieval Iberian Culture”

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker Enass Khansa is a Harvard AKPIA Associate; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University; The Santiago Cathedral Project (Spain) Website.

Rethinking Muslim Ethics: Tensions and Dilemmas

Storm Hall West, Room 011 San Diego, CA, United States

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 and the end of liberalism?

UC Berkeley Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

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...

Translators, copyists and interpreters: Jews, Christians and Muslims

University of Cordoba Avd. Medina Azahara, 5, Córdoba, Spain

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...