Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment of the South Urals, who memorized the entire Qur’an at the Mosque of the....
Read More »For the Greater Good: Common Goals and Institutional Sunni–Shiʿa Cooperation in Norway
Under what circumstances do Sunni and Shiʿa organisations enter into institutional cooperation with each other? This article explores this question through a study of Muslim institutional cooperation in Norway from the late 1980s to the late 2010s, based on both archival sources and...
Read More »PhD Thesis: Muslim Populations in a Western Context: Lived Experience of Stigma and Marginalization
This research examined the lived experiences of Muslim populations in Western societies with a focus on stigma and marginalization....
Read More »Call for Papers: Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule
The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and other minoritarian Muslim groups) under majoritarian...
Read More »Book: Islamic Religious Education in Europe
This Book offers a comparative study of curricula, teaching materials, and teacher education in fourteen European countries, and in doing so, explores local, national, and international complexities of contemporary Islamic Religious Education....
Read More »Human Rights in Islamic Societies: Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights
This book compares Islamic and Western ideas of human rights in order to ascertain which human rights, if any, can be considered universal. This is a profound topic with a rich history that is highly relevant within global politics and...
Read More »Call for Papers: Representations of Islam in Germanophone Literature
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...
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