Tag Archives: Islamic Studies

This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its secular...

The objective of this conference is to take stock of these esoteric uses of the Qur’an and to examine how they relate to each other and to non-esoteric traditions and methods, to set them in the...

This study analyses the following categories of Muslim activists: Islamic religious scholars (ulama), liberal Muslims, and the more conservative-minded...

The post of Lecturer is for the delivery of the College’s BA in Islamic Studies –accredited by the Open University. This is a unique programme that combines an in-depth study of ...

The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, TX and virtually from...

This Article will explore the religious component of post-Islamist discourse. It will argue that, in all probability, the discourse on ijtihad will be replaced by the...

The transmission of knowledge has been a fundamental aspect of the Islamic tradition since the time of the Prophet Muhammad. In the centuries after the ...

This book brings together western and Middle Eastern scholars to explore medieval and modern approaches to the study of Hadith...

In this research area, you can pursue interdisciplinary study of Islamic thought and practice, and of historical, theological, ethical and political encounters between...

This paper, in its endeavours to first examine feminist hermeneutical approaches to Qurʾanic exegesis and to then compare them with traditional Shiʿi approaches, begins with an overview of the main concepts of contextualist theory...