Iran’s prominent cleric, Ayatollah Lotfollah Saafi Golpayegani, has passed away at the age of 103 following a cardiac arrest at a hospital in the holy city of Qom....
Read More »Virtual Panel: Global Displays of Islamic Art Today: Agency, Identity, and Politics
Through a series of case studies from both public and private museums in Turkey, Qatar, France, Spain, Canada and Iran, this panel of international doctoral candidates examines curatorial practice and agency vis-à-vis the...
Read More »Canada Intends to Appoint a Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia
Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion of Canada, highlighted the federal government’s intention to appoint a special representative on...
Read More »Understanding Islamic Sciences by Martyr Mutahhari
Understanding Islamic Sciences provides an informative introduction to six major disciplines in Islamic studies: Theology, mysticism, principles of jurisprudence, philosophy and...
Read More »Call for Papers: Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse
Through discussions on how exemplary and stereotypical characters are used, modified and redefined in pre-modern Islamic texts, this workshop aims to investigate a range of typologies in the ethical discourse in light of its historical and intellectual developments across...
Read More »Islamic Economy: Its Ideological and Legal Foundations
When we study the Islamic economy as a way which Islam prescribes for individual and social behavior in the economic field and examine Islam's rules in this area, we can conclude that its most...
Read More »Online Conference: The Hermeneutics of Islamic Legal Authority
Intended as a forum for the exposition of current research, this two-day conference will include invited academics recognized for their contributions to the study of Islamic law, Georgetown faculty of...
Read More »Call for Papers: the Seventh Annual Conference on Shi’i Studies
The Islamic College invites abstracts to be submitted for its seventh conference on Shi'i studies...
Read More »Call for Application: IKAM Research Fellowship Program
Under its aim of developing a qualified human resource for Islamic economics and finance, IKAM is pleased to announce its Islamic Economics Research Fellowship Program for...
Read More »Call for Applications: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
The summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the...
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