The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...
Read More »British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism
This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself...
Read More »The Legacy of Fatima: The Role of Women in Shia Islam
One-Day workshop on “The Legacy of Fatima: The Role of Women in Shia Islam” will be held in Woolf Institute Cambridge on March 4. This event will bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss the role and legacy of Fatima in Shia Islam. Discussants and moderators include: Father Christopher Clohessy, …
Read More »Call for Applications: Post-doctoral researchers on the “European Qur’an”
The Université de Nantes is recruiting doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars for work on the project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150–1850)” (EuQu). There will be up to four doctoral and twelve post-doctoral positions available. This is an exciting opportunity for early career researchers to …
Read More »The Qur’an in Christian-Muslim Dialogue+PDF
Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than...
Read More »2nd Annual Conference on ‘Islam, the West, and Radicalism’ to Be Held in the UK
The second Annual Conference on ‘Islam, the West, and Radicalism’ will be held by The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the Imam Sadr Foundation (Lebanon)....
Read More »Call for Papers Workshop: Islamic Modernity, Reform and Tajdid (Renovation)
Two-day workshop will be held on 23rd and 24th April 2019 at Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, The Netherlands...
Read More »Two-Day Workshop on Man & Social Relations in Shia Tradition
The Nahj al-Balaghah Research Institute in cooperation with Saadi Foundation and International Association of Dialogue for Peace will host the two-day workshop on Man & Social Relations in Shia Tradition on the...
Read More »Fifth Risalat Summer Course to Be Held in Qom, Iran
In cooperation with the International Institute for Islamic Studies (IIIS), Risalat International Institute (RII) is pleased to host a fifth group of RSC participants in...
Read More »The Creation of Philosophical Tradition
the book “The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography & the Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D.” clearly documents the vitality of the post-classical philosophical tradition as reflected in literary biography, the genres of...
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