This two year project addresses how Muslim legal scholars have used the idea of a perfect past to try and change the imperfect present...
Read More »Muftis, Fatwas & Muslims in the UK – A Study of Islamic Legal Advice
The project, Muftis, Fatwas, and Muslims in the UK – A Study of Islamic Legal Advice, will examine the people who make religious judgements in Britain and the context in which their advice is sought, given and interpreted...
Read More »Introduction: The Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Part
While many European universities, Leiden included, have a proud tradition of research into Islamic studies, a topical and thematic focus on Shiʿi Islam in all its dispensation remains a desideratum...
Read More »Call for Papers: The Translation of the Qur’an in Indonesia
International Conference and Workshop titled “The Translation of the Qur’an in Indonesia” Organised by Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Department of Islamic Studies, and Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Graduate School...
Read More »PhD Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for two fees only PhD scholarships in any area within its expertise...
Read More »Call for Papers: Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective
Unit of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) invited proposals for both individual papers and pre-arranged panels at the international meeting in Helsinki, July 30-August 3, 2018...
Read More »Call for Papers: Reading Is Believing? Sacred Texts in a Scientific Age
This multi-disciplinary colloquium will examine ways in which the modern world has posed challenges to the scriptural traditions of Islam and Christianity, and will explore how exegetes and believers within each religious have responded...
Read More »5th Int’l Conference on Islamic Applications in Computer Science &Technologies
The conference aims at providing the most important applications and Software that could contribute to serving Muslims and their religion and community, and aims to encourage scientific research by using IT tools in Sharia sciences...
Read More »Int’l Conference on Arts, Music, Literature & Islamic Studies
The idea of International Conference on Arts, Music, Literature and Islamic Studies (AMLIS-2017) scheduled on Dec. 21-22, 2017 Dubai (UAE) is for the researchers, scientists, scholars, engineers and parctitioners from all around the world to present and share...
Read More »Dar al-‘Ilm Seminary Opens in Najaf +Pics
The Dar al-ilm project was originally a religious seminary founded by the late Grand Ayatollah Khoei in 1973 in Najaf. The former Iraqi regime demolished the seminary in 1990 which is the basis of this new project that has been re-established on a land area of 3320m from the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as)...
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