The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen offers a three-year scholarship to complete a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies...
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The thesis titled “Al-Qawa'id al-Fiqhiyyah (Islamic Legal Maxims): Concept, Functions, History, Classifications and Application to Contemporary Medical Issues” analyses al-qawa'id al-fiqhiyyah (Islamic legal maxims), one of the significant disciplines of Islamic legal thought...
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This book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to...
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Al-Mahdi Institute is now enrolling for Part-time Islamic studies starting from Monday 26th February 2018. Modules available include “Islamic Mysticism” & “Hadith & Rijal Studies”, which are available to study both in-house at the Institute or via..
Read More »Call for Applications: Senior Lecturer for Teaching Quran Arabic
The Department of Islamic-Theological Studies at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Faculty of Vienna University seeks to fill the position as soon as possible of a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Islamic Studies...
Read More »Dhaka to be Recognized as Islamic Tourism City
The aim of this year's Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers (ICTM) is to showcase Bangladesh’s Islamic cultural heritage to the Muslim countries across the globe...
Read More »Self-Identity and Otherness: Shia Approaches to Religious Pluralism
The Self-Identity and Otherness: Shia Approaches to Religious Pluralism panel is an examination of the history of Shia views of other religious traditions as well as the contemporary legal-theological reflection about religious pluralism...
Read More »Sixth International Course on Shi’a Islamic Studies
The Shi’a Intensive Course endeavors to enhance scholarly attention to Shiʿi Islam and offer an original and insightful understanding of its history, doctrines and practices. Combining the classical Shiʿa thought and the..
Read More »Three Reasons why the Islamic Revolution of Iran Was a Miracle
For 25 years, millions of Iranians were held hostage by the United States. That’s right: from August 19, 1953 to February 1, 1979—9,037 days in all—over 17 million Iranians were essentially hostages of the ṭaghut (evil, corrupt and deviant) government of the United States. That these hostages managed to free themselves from U.S. oppression due to the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran is indeed a miracle...
Read More »Call for Papers: Muslim Women’s Religious Leadership & Authority in Europe & North America
This interdisciplinary workshop, will be held in 13 September 2018, aims to facilitate a dialogue and scholarly exchange on the topic of Islamic female scholarship and leadership...
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