The national Shia students conference titled “Ma’rifa 2020: Self-Discovery and Imagination” will be held on February 28-29 in...
Read More »Call for Papers: Thematic Conversation: Constructing Race in Islamicate Societies
This panel seeks new research and pedagogy on the construction of race, origin, and ethnicity in Islamicate societies from the seventh to the...
Read More »Undergraduate Paper Writing Competition: $10,000 Top Prize
Muhammad bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization announces a student writing competition entitled: Muslim Intellectual Life in...
Read More »Call for Papers: The Regulation of Purity (Ṭahāra) and Impurity (Najāsāt) in Islam
The 8th Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop, at the Al-Mahdi Institute, seeks to provide a forum for considering the regulations of im/purity (ṭahāra and najāsā) in Islam, in light of ...
Read More »Call for Papers: Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Authority in Twelver Shia Islam
This conference invites papers on the topic of clergy-state relations in Twelver Shia Islam, from the post-ghayba period (ca. 941 CE) to...
Read More »Call for Papers: Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective
The Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective unit of the Society of Biblical Litrerature invites proposals for both individual papers and pre-arranged panels at the...
Read More »Call for Papers: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World
Muqarnas -An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World- invites papers for its forthcoming volume 38, to be published in...
Read More »Muslim World League to Launch “Islamic Jurispudence Award”
The Supreme Council of the Muslim World League (MWL) has announced the launching of the MWL’s “Islamic Jurisprudence Award,” and the “Holy Makkah Document” prize, with a total...
Read More »Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus
From 24-26 June 2020, the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS), will host a conference on the...
Read More »Call for Papers: Navigating the Non/Confessional in University Islamic Studies
A three-day international conference funded and organised by the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, in partnership with the...
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