A massive explosion ripped through a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more...
Read More »Call for Papers: 30 years after Richard M. Frank: Al-Ghazali and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam
In celebration of these books and of Richard M. Frank's contributions to the field of Islamic Studies Yale University’s Departments of Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, together with the....
Read More »Call for Application: Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies (Asian Islam)
The Asian Studies program of Hamilton College at Clinton, NY, US invites applications for a one-year visiting position in any discipline on Islam in Asia, including Iran/Persia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, to...
Read More »Call for Papers: Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice
The Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice (MJTILP) is announced the call for papers for its forthcoming Volume 18, 2022....
Read More »World Muslim Women Summit and Exhibition 2022
In the World Muslim Women Summit and Exhibition | WISE 2022 to be held within the institutional framework of the World Islamic Forum, in addition to “Women and Innovation in Future Education“, it is planned to...
Read More »Book Review: Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Fred M. Donner’s history of early Islam, Muhammad and the Believers, is a new, thought provoking work of the Early Islamic movement....
Read More »Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
In Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first evolved....
Read More »Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period
This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal ...
Read More »Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi
In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in...
Read More »The International Union of Muslim Scholars Call for End of Russia-Ukraine War
The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) yesterday called for an end to the Russia war in Ukraine, a statement posted on the union's website said....
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