Abdulaziz Sachedina was born into an Indian Muslim family in Tanzania in 1942. He received BA degrees from Aligarh Muslim University (in Islamic Studies) in Aligarh, India, and Ferdowsi University (in Persian language and literature) in...
Read More »A Review on the Islamic Seminary of Najaf
The seminary of Najaf is by far one of the most important institutions of academics and ijtihad in the history of academia and Shi‘a culture.
Read More »Full Professorship for “Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective” (W3)
The Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology invites applications for a full professorship for “Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective” (W3) starting 1st October 2019 and initially limited to a 5-year...
Read More »Book: Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam, Past and Present
This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Shiʿi Islamic world, reflects on the roles that women have played in exercising religious authority across time and...
Read More »Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception
Whereas most of the theological works by al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) have been preserved and are now available in critical editions and have partly been studied, only some of the kalām writings by his most prominent student, the Shaykh al-ṭāʾifa Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067), are...
Read More »Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority+PDF
Throughout Shiʿi history, scholars (ʿulamāʾ) have been trying to answer the following question: in the absence of the Prophet and the Imams, how is sure knowledge (ʿilm) derived?...
Read More »Shi’i Doctrine, Mu’tazili Theology: al-Sharif al-Murtada and Imami Discourse+PDF
In this book, the writer provides us with a rigorous, detailed account of aspects of the theological enterprise of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 1044), the famous Shiʿi theologian, littérateur, jurist, and....
Read More »Call for Papers: McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium 2019
The organizing committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium invites abstract submissions to their ninth annual symposium, to be held on April 4-5, 2019 at...
Read More »Job Opening: Assistant Professor Position in Islamic Studies (specialization in Persian/Iranian Studies)
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in Islamic Studies, with a specialization in....
Read More »Full Professorship for “Islamic Intellectual History of the Post-Classical Period (1200-1800)
The Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology invites applications for a full professorship for “Islamic Intellectual History of the Post-Classical Period (1200-1800)” (W3) starting 1st October 2019 and...
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