Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of...
Read More »Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus
From 24-26 June 2020, the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS), will host a conference on the...
Read More »Book: Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology
The present volume is dedicated to the study of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641–1731), an outstanding religious scholar, sufi thinker and man of letters from...
Read More »Call for Papers: Navigating the Non/Confessional in University Islamic Studies
A three-day international conference funded and organised by the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, in partnership with the...
Read More »Call for Applications: Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
Brown University invites applications at the level of Associate or Full Professor from a historian of art and architecture with a primary research interest in the study of any region of the...
Read More »Between Hadīth and Fiqh: the “Canonical” Imāmī Collections of Akhbār
As an example of the processes at work in the collection and presentation of akhbār, the writer examines the issue of tayammum, ritual purification by...
Read More »Call for Papers: Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
The Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World aims to be a new reference for field archaeologists, (art) historians, anthropologists, curators, and scholars and students of the...
Read More »Book: Narrators and Narrations: A Beginner’s Guide to Rijal and Dirayah
In this book, the author expertly presents an introduction to Rijal and Diraya subjects and discusses their main topics in the form of thirty-four lessons...
Read More »Principles of Emulating a Jurist (Taqlid)
A believer should be very keen on learning the Islamic rulings that are relevant to them, especially rulings on acts of worship....
Read More »Book: Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence for Beginners
Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence for Beginners is an English translation of al-Mujaz fi Usul al-Fiqh...
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