Arabic and Islamic Studies has been a part of the Department of Russian & Eastern Studies at the University of Kentucky since the early eighties and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures for over 10 years...
Read More »American Islamic College
American Islamic College (AIC) is a private, not-for-profit Islamic madrasa institution of higher education in Chicago that offers BA and MA degrees in Islamic Studies, and a Master of Divinity in Islamic Studies (MDIS) and accepts students from all...
Read More »Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture
the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a unique international graduate program designed to promote, sustain, and increase the teaching of architecture of the Islamic world...
Read More »Allama Tabatabaei’s Note on Alcoholic Beverages
The only religion that has strongly banned alcoholism in the world is Islam, and it is thanks to this principle that the toxic effects of this poisonous drink are not manifest among the followers of Islam, said Allama Tabatabaei in his note to the congress on fighting alcoholic beverages at the request of the...
Read More »Call for Application: Halal Business Awards 2018
This year the global Halal industry is to going to have a new awards called Halal Business Awards with an aim to recognise the best entrepreneurs, products and services in the Muslim world and to showcase real inspiring role models for...
Read More »Russia’s Largest Bank to Offer Islamic Banking
Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, considers a possibility to launch a pilot project to accept population deposits in accordance with the rules of Islam...
Read More »The History of Material Cultures and Visual Arts in the Islamic Lands
The Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology and the University of Strasbourg invites to the 14th colloquium of the Society that will be held at the University, July 5–7, 2018...
Read More »Book: The Islamic Scholarly Tradition
The book “The Islamic Scholarly Tradition: Studies in History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook “contains highly original articles on Islamic history, law, and thought, each either proposing new hypotheses or readjusting existing ones...
Read More »Article: ‘We the Jurists’: Islamic Constitutionalism in Iraq +PDF
This article examines the implications of incorporating Islamic law in a modern democratic constitutional context. The new Iraqi constitution's designation of Islamic law as "a source of law" placed the issue of Islamic law's role in new democracies at the...
Read More »Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Scholarships
These scholarships have been established by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies to allow graduates to pursue study of benefit to the Muslim world...
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