The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) invites scholars, including advanced doctoral students, to submit paper proposals for its 2020 spring meeting, which will be....
Read More »Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today
Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in...
Read More »Book: The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...
Read More »Article: Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe+PDF
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe...
Read More »Call for Papers: Narrative and Ethics: The Morals of the Qurʾanic Stories and Beyond
The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) College of Islamic Studies Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar has called for research papers to a closed three-day seminar on...
Read More »Call for Participation: Theological, Legal and Political Responses to Salafism
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, opens a call for participation at an international workshop on theological, legal and political responses to...
Read More »Book: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
This book puts forward a reinterpretation of early Islam as a movement strongly inflected with values of peacemaking that was reacting against the slaughter of the decades-long war and...
Read More »‘Islamic Law and Theology in Context’ Conference to Be Held in Germany
An International Conference titled ‘Islamic Law and Theology in Context - The Treatise-Literature (rasāʾil) as Documentation of Socially Relevant Discussions in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies (13th - 19th Centuries)’ will be...
Read More »Book: Gender, Governance and Islam
The book “Gender, Governance and Islam” Analyses the links between gender and governance in contemporary Muslim majority countries and diaspora contexts. Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis …
Read More »Muslim Endowments in Asia: Waqf, Charity and Circulations
Waqf is a complex institution which has been employed by Muslims for over 1000 years to sustain various projects, ranging from private homes, cemeteries, libraries, mosques, schools, to...
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