Applications for Al-Mahdi Institute full-time study (starting September each year), can be submitted from the 1st of June of each year...
Read More »A Modern History of the Islamic World +PDF
A Modern History of the Islamic World provides a clear overview of the ways in which twentieth century modernism affected the societies of the Islamic world and how modernism was developed from an...
Read More »Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, with a starting date of...
Read More »Visiting Fellowships with Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change
Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change invites applications for Visiting Fellowships for the 2019-2020 academic year....
Read More »Seminar: The Qur’an in English: Challenges and Choices for Surat an-Nisa
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...
Read More »Article: Hanafi Fiqh in India during Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526)
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...
Read More »An Interview with Abdulaziz Sachedina on His Life and Scholarship
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 »