Tag Archives: Islamic Studies

International Conference on Historicity and Islamicity: Perceptions of Early Islamic History in Contemporary Muslim Thought will be held at the Center for Islamic Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am...

The aim of the International Round-Table Conference “the Qur’an in its Milieu of Possibilities of the Historical Reconstruction of the Qur’anic Revelation” in 2019 is to establish a vivid international discourse as well as to create an...

Monotheism constitutes one of the central doctrines of Islam. The notion is again and again voiced in the Qurʾān, thus for example in sūra 112 (entitled “Sincere Religion”) which, in the translation of...

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....

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...

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...

This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe...

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...

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...

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...