The second Annual Conference on ‘Islam, the West, and Radicalism’ will be held by The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the Imam Sadr Foundation (Lebanon)....
Read More »Islam in Modern Societies: Facts, Issues, and Perspectives in the West
The writer of this book considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the...
Read More »Union of Muslim Scholars Warns Arab World about Israel
International Union of Muslim Scholars accepts with sorrow the meeting of a large number of officials from Arab countries with the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu who occupy their Holy Land, kill their children, blockade their cities and...
Read More »The Beginnings of the School of Ḥillah: A Bio-Bibliographical Study of Twelver Shīʿism in the Late ʿAbbāsid and Early Ilkhānid Periods
This dissertation is a bio-bibliographical study of Twelver Shīʿism in southern Iraq in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries, a period that has been called the....
Read More »Book: Shari’a and Politics in Modern Indonesia
This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...
Read More »Book: Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
This book is very much work in progress and presents preliminary reflections on some contemporary challenges to...
Read More »Giving Muslim Visitors a Place at Japan’s Tables
Muslim visitors from places like Malaysia and Indonesia are eager to try traditional Japanese food, but Islamic dietary requirements can make this difficult. A growing number of Japanese restaurants are beginning to accommodate these needs, though. With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics fast approaching, Japan—in both the public and …
Read More »Book: Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State
In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an...
Read More »Shaikh Isa Qassim Hospitalized in Tehran
Bahrain's most prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim was admitted to one of the hospitals in Tehran, Iran to complete the...
Read More »Call for Papers Workshop: Islamic Modernity, Reform and Tajdid (Renovation)
Two-day workshop will be held on 23rd and 24th April 2019 at Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, The Netherlands...
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