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...
Read More »CIWAS Annual Conference 2018: Islam, the West, and Radicalism
The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London invites the researchers and scholars to the 2018 Annual CIWAS Conference on the theme of ‘Islam, the West, and Radicalism...
Read More »Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies
The Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies is a forum for discourse and presentation of papers by scholars who have a particular interest in the study of religion. Canon Brian Mountford MBE, former Vicar of St Mary’s Church and Fellow of St Hilda’s College in the University of Oxford, will host …
Read More »London Muslim Lifestyle Show Wins Event of the Year
London Muslim Lifestyle Show was named Event of the Year in the 6th annual British Muslim Awards. The ceremony took place in the great Yorkshire city of Bradford on the 31st of January 2018...
Read More »4th International Conference on Arts, Music, Literature and Islamic Studies to be held in UAE
Fourth International Conference on Arts, Music, Literature and Islamic Studies will provide opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration...
Read More »Al-Mahdi Institute Research Bursaries for Doctoral Project
A number of small grants and bursaries are available to encourage the development and publication of research in line with the aims and objectives of Al-Mahdi Institute...
Read More »Article: Islam and the Challenge of Democracy+PDF
The question which writer deals with here is whether concurrent and simultaneous moral and normative commitments to Islam and to a democratic form of government are reconcilable or mutually exclusive...
Read More »Iranian Mark 39th Anniversary of Islamic Revolution
In their millions, Iranians have filled the streets countrywide to relive the day 38 years ago when the nation’s hard-fought Islamic Revolution against the former US-backed regime became victorious...
Read More »Summer Courses on Shi‘a Studies to be Held on July
Al-hikmah institute of Al-Mustafa International University organizes a summer program which provide a format for introducing and discussing Shi‘a history, thoughts, beliefs, demography, Shi‘a governments, education system, branches and denominations, as well as ideological roots of Islamic revolution in...
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