This Special Issue "Representations of Islam in Germanophone Literature: Cultural Perspectives from the Enlightenment to the Present" invites contributions with a focus on intercultural relationships by using the example of religion, an indispensable element in discourses of...
Read More »Specialized Course: Methodology of the Qur’an’s Responses to Non-Muslims’ Doubts
Center for studies and responding to religious debates (Islamic Seminaries) in Cooperation with Baqir al-Olum University will present an Specialized Course on Studying and Responding to Religious Doubts, Methodology of The Qur'an's Responses to....
Read More »15th Annual Muslim Mental Health Conference (2023)
The 15th anniversary Muslim mental health conference is hosted by the Muslim Mental Health Consortium at Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Psychiatry...
Read More »Call for Papers: Rethinking Arts and Aesthetics in the Muslim World
The biennial ILEM International Summer School aims to serve as a forum for discussion of major issues concerning the Islamic world by bringing together academics, researchers and artists from diverse...
Read More »Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Islamicate Research
This Special Issue focuses on issues and challenges pertaining to the praxis of Digital Humanities (DH) in non-Western geographical contexts, countries, and cultures, especially, though without being limited to...
Read More »Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy
Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy examines what it is like to study and teach the Qur'an at academic institutions in the Muslim world, and how politics affect scholarly interpretations of the text....
Read More »Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas: Conceptualizing the Global Ummah
This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the...
Read More »Call for Papers: Comparative Philosophy of Religion
The Journal of Philosophical Theological Research (JPTR) has called for papers for the subject of its special issue on "Comparative Philosophy of Religion"....
Read More »A Reconsideration of the Number of the Prophet’s Wars
The important question that arises is whether there were actually eighty-five clashes and conflicts between the Prophet and his companions on the one hand and his enemies on the....
Read More »Understanding Islam: Positions of Knowledge
Bryan S. Turner, in this book, argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events – the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump – leading to western intellectuals and...
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