The summer school is open to doctoral students enrolled in any country, in any discipline, as long as their dissertation subject and the proposed talk are related to the theme of the...
Read More »Call for Papers: Leadership through Service, Development through Learning, Cooperation through Dialogue
The British Board of Scholars and Imams is an apolitical national assembly of imams, traditional scholars and religiously learned academics formed to facilitate scholarly intra-Muslim research and dialogue and...
Read More »Job Opening: Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam
Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam (chaired by Prof. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab) examines the emergence, flourishing and lasting appeal of non-conformist movements in Islamic intellectual history from the...
Read More »Book: The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the...
Read More »Call for Applications: Scholarships and Places in the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten PhD fellows to its three-year doctoral programme, which is to begin on 1 October 2022....
Read More »Islamic Philosophy Conference to Be Held at Harvard University
The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context....
Read More »Online Short Course: Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East
This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East....
Read More »Online Short Course: Education and Networks of Learning in Islamic History
The course will introduce historical sources and archival material on which our knowledge of pre-modern learning and knowledge transmission is based....
Read More »PhD Candidate in Islamic History and Culture
The Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion invites applications for a PhD research fellowship in the field of Islamic history and culture, relating to the topic of Islamic...
Read More »A Brief History of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, the Founder of Fiqh al-Jafariya
One of the well-known Muslim schools of thought, also known as the 12er Shia school of thought, is the Jafari school of thought. The word ‘Jafar’ in ‘Jafari’ refers to the sixth blessed Imam of the Prophet’s family (AhlulBayt), peace be upon all of them. The martyrdom of...
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