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

Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History Conference

Vanderbilt University 2201 West End Ave., Nashville, TN, United States

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,...

Islamophobia Conference-University of Louisville

Chao Auditorium at Ekstrom Library 2215 S. 3rd Street, Louisville, KY, United States

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...

Ethnographies of Islam in China – An International Conference

SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

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...

Symposium on Muslim African Intellectual History

West Duke Building 101, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

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...

Islam and Muslims in Media

Rubenstein Library, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153 411 Chapel Dr, Durham, United States

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...

Intercultural Film Series: Behind the Veil

Hannan Hall Auditorium, Room 108 Washington, DC, United States

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...

Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text

Schloss Hohentübingen, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, room 165, Burgsteige 11 Burgsteige 11, 72070, Tübingen, Germany

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,...

Al-Alwani Event for Muslim-Christian Dialogue

The El-Hibri Foundation 1420 16th Street NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States

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:...