Sociability & Relations

Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani has called upon Muslim nations to join forces and stand up against Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and provide further support to the residents of the besieged Palestinian coastal sliver....

Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia examines the rise of young preachers of Arab descent (habaib) and their sermon groups in the region and shows how Islam and politics coexist, flourish, interlace, and strive in Indonesia in complex, pragmatic, and...

Recognizing and asserting the dynamism of Islamic philosophy, in both historical and lived forms, this conference seeks to explore its capacity to serve as a resource for thinking through and responding to modern concerns, to shape moral imagination, and to encourage innovative, embodied, or...

The scholarly network Philosophy in the Modern Islamic World organizes the international conference “Philosophy, the Political, and Politics of Translation in the Modern Islamic World” in...

This conference brings together leading practitioners and international researchers in Muslim Chaplaincy Studies thereby creating a dialogue at the interface of research and reflective practice. Important current topics will be discussed and perspectives for the further contouring of the...

Al-Azhar, the world's leading Islamic Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Wednesday the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas' Political Bureau, in Tehran earlier Wednesday describing it as a “heinous crime committed by a treacherous occupying entity”....

One of the stated goals of the Islamic Revolution of Iran led by Imam Khomeini in 1979 was to fight against racism and to support people of color. What did the Islamic Revolution do to prove this...

In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles...

In Reliving Karbala, Syed Akbar Hyder examines the myriad ways that the Karbala symbol has provided inspiration in South Asia, home to the worlds largest Muslim population....

Regarding the tragedy of Ashura, one of the questions that arises is why Imam Husayn (a), knowing that he would have become martyr along with his companions, brought his family with him and what the role of the women in...