The creation of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University reflects the university’s long-standing commitment to the advancement of scholarship of the Muslim world...
Read More »Call for Applications: Professor in Social & Cultural History of Islam & Islamic World
The Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religions of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) invites applications for a position as full professor or assistant Professor (tenure-track to associate professor) in Social and Cultural History of Islam and Islamic Worlds...
Read More »Oslo University to Develop Study Programs with Emphasis on Islamic Theology
According to Oddbjørn Leirvik of the UiO, the Faculty of Theology has long sought to establish a master's degree level education in Islamic theology. Therefore, the possibility of further expanding its multi-religious studies is more than welcome, he said...
Read More »Call for Papers: International Qur’anic Studies Association Annual Meeting 2018
The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its Call for Papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018...
Read More »International Conference on Muslim Minorities to Be Held on May
The International Conference on Muslim Minorities: Opportunities and Challenges, to be held on May 8-9, aims at spreading the culture of peace and tolerance between adherents of religions and cultures, and contributing to safeguarding the children of Muslim minorities against violence and extremism...
Read More »Call for Application: Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interreligious Studies 6 weeks
Intended to contribute to the issues of religious pluralism and intercultural acceptance in a society based on migration and globalization, the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Interreligious studies aims at an international audience of young people (age between 20 and 35 years) interested and engaged interreligious dialogue, religious leaders, students, lay persons and professionals with a suitable level of religious literacy and/or experience in...
Read More »Over 200 UK Mosques to Open their Doors this Weekend
With over 200 mosques across the UK opening their doors this weekend on 18 February 2018 as part of Visit My Mosque Day, this year will have the largest ever number of mosques welcoming in their neighbors at the same time under the theme Open Doors, Open Mosques, Open Communities...
Read More »Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 1
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of...
Read More »Call for Papers: Commentaries Read Horizontally
An international conference titled "Commentaries Read Horizontally: Towards a sociological approach to the Study of Commentaries in the Islamicate world" will be organized and the proceedings edited by Mohammad Gharaibeh, academic coordinator of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamicate Intellectual History, University of Bonn...
Read More »Call for Applications: Understanding Shari’a: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present
"Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice Summer School" project aims to make a contribution to raising the level of public debate around these issues by emphasising the creative and future-orientation of modern Muslim understandings of the past...
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