A new Islamic Ethics Training Center opened in Thalang, Phuket. The facility, opened on November 30, was developed under the guidance of the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organization (PPAO)...
Read More »Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility in the Middle East...
Read More »Workshop: What is an Imam?
‘What is an Imam?’ is a workshop organised by the ERC Horizon STG Project ‘Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE’...
Read More »Intensive Academic Course on Islamic Philosophy
The International Intensive Academic Course on Islamic Philosophy by Hikmat International Institute will cover the meaning and concept of philosophy in Islam as well as main topics and the current situation of Islamic Philosophy....
Read More »Call for Papers: Global Shi’ism: Migrations, Diasporas and the Islamic Revival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This workshop explores Shi’ism and Muslim confessionalisation from a global historical perspective, with a special focus on migrations and connections across borders and continents. Its main objective is to flip the central dichotomy at the heart of work on global trends in Islam to.....
Read More »Call for Papers: Shīʻism and Sectarian Identities from Pre-Modern to Modern Islam
The convenors of this Autumn School, organised by the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) in collaboration with the University of Leiden, call for papers on all the diverse aspects of Shiism and sectarian relations....
Read More »Call for Papers: Presents and Futures of Islamic Philosophy
Recognizing and asserting the dynamism of Islamic philosophy, in both historical and lived forms, this conference seeks to explore its capacity to serve as a resource for thinking through and responding to modern concerns, to shape moral imagination, and to encourage innovative, embodied, or...
Read More »Postdoctoral Positions in Islamic/ate Art and in Multiple Fields
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland College Park invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Islamic or Islamicate art and architecture (600-1500 CE)...
Read More »Job Position: Postdoc Religious Studies “Muslim Piety and Aesthetic Expressions”
The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen invites applications for a 2-year postdoc position in Religious Studies affiliated with the project “Pious Practices among Danish Muslims. Diversity, Devotion and Aesthetics” starting on....
Read More »Hawza Online: Specialized Postgraduate-Level Education in Islamic Studies
The Hawza Online Further Studies programme is designed to provide a specialised postgraduate-level education in Islamic studies, building on the foundational knowledge acquired through undergraduate-level Hawza and...
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