Learning & Education

Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change invites applications for Visiting Fellowships for the 2019-2020 academic year....

This seminar will highlight elements of interest from several verses. Some concern women's status and rights, but others look at family relations more broadly, as well as to...

The period of Delhi Sultanate was a bright era of Indian history which witnessed revolutionary changes in education, sciences, architecture, fine arts, administration etc. The Islamic sciences, especially, fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) flourished and...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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?...

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....

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...