Announcements

The edited volume "Beyond Karbala: New Approaches to Shiʿi Materiality" (working title) seeks out to explore materially expressed Shiism, with a renewed focus on non-ʿAshūrāʾ rituals, practices and objects...

This is an opportunity for an outstanding scholar to join the research project Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP), funded by the European Research Council and directed by...

Islam & Liberty Network (ILN) announces 6th International Conference on Islam & Liberty – Building an Islamic Case for Open Markets on 14th-15th November 2018, being held at and supported by Iqbal International Institute of...

The third Warwick Islamic Education Summer School will be focused on issues related to the formation of Muslim female faith and...

This one day multi-disciplinary symposium “Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond” will be held on October 30, 2018, at Brock University in...

This Special Issue of IJIDI will address this gap by offering a combined information and diversity perspective to the study of pilgrimage; shedding light on the approaches and concepts that can enrich our understanding of the pilgrim’s journey and it...

The Department of Theology and Religion of Birmingham University seeks to appoint a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to work on the ERC-funded project ‘Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in...

For the very first time, Islamic Institute for Development & Research (IIDR) is offering a mature exploration of sex and sexuality from a scientific and an Islamic perspective. In this brand new course...

This July IIDR (The Islamic Institute for Development & Research) will be using Dr Jasser Auda’s latest book, Reclaiming the Mosque, to understand the historical lead up to...

The University of Religions and Denominations with its experience of organizing six intensive international courses on Shia Studies in Iran (Qom) and attracting more than a hundred participants from 42 countries, is organizing the...