Rulers could intervene in the production of literary texts indirectly as patrons but also directly as authors of such texts. The aims of the Workshop Rulers as authors in the Islamic world: knowledge, authority and legitimacy are to assess the geographical and...
Read More »Call for Papers: International Journal of Islamic Architecture: Boundaries, Flows, and the Construction of Muslim Selves through Architecture
In this special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture it invites papers that bring critical perspectives to our understanding of the interrelation between the accumulated flows and the evolving concepts of boundary in predominantly Muslim societies, and within the global Muslim...
Read More »Istanbul Conference Discusses Dangerous of Salafism
A three-day conference on Salafism began in Istanbul Friday, where leading academics and experts debated the merits and demerits of the conservative movement in the...
Read More »2nd Annual American Halal Conference and Business Expo
The two-day conference will include a full day of discussions, panels and presentations about the booming global halal industry, and awards ceremony and concert...
Read More »Call for Papers: Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians: History, Theology, Literature
International conference titled “Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians: History, Theology, Literature” will be held with the participation of Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) and Francis Richard (CNRS, Paris), in Paris...
Read More »Workshop: Global Dynamics of Shia Marriages
The workshop focused on various strands of Twelver Shia Islam – defined by doctrinal differences or following different sources of clerical authority, the legal and ethical practices, rituals and everyday lived experience – and investigated how different forms of...
Read More »International Conference on “Social Policy in the Islamic World”
Allameh Tabataba’i University (the largest public university specialized in humanities and social sciences in Iran) will hold the first international conference on ‘Social Policy in the Islamic World’ in May 2018 in partnership with a...
Read More »Call for Papers: 20th International Conference on Halal Research
The conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Halal Research. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for...
Read More »Call for Papers: Muslim Cultures in the Indian Ocean
This conference aims to explore the diversity of Muslim cultures prevalent in the Indian Ocean region where, historically, Muslims have interacted for centuries with each other and with other peoples and...
Read More »The Emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the Authority of Knowledge Conference
Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales announce the holding of its second conference, on the topic of "The emergence of the Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge (4ᵗʰ/10ᵗʰ‒8ᵗʰ/14ᵗʰ centuries)". The conference will take place in Cairo on...
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