In France, a Jewish historian is tried for "anti-Muslim remarks"

December 27, 2016

Georges Bensoussan is the editorial director of the Memorial de la Shoah and one of the greatest scholars of anti-Semitism in France. The Movement against Racism and for Friendship...

Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath

December 26, 2016

It was here, in this midsize college town in the dead center of Tennessee, that a right-wing effort to ban Islamic law found one of its first sponsors. Here, too, a congressman cosponsored a plan to “defund Muslim ‘refugees’” and local residents sued to block construction of the only...

Desire of the Aspirant

By ICAS Press

ICAS Press are pleased to announce the latest publication ‘Desire of the Aspirant: On the Etiquette of the Teacher and the Student’ is now available for sale. The classical Islamic scholarly tradition is characterised by an emphasis on the teacher-student relationship. Learning is not simply seen as a material acquisition of knowledge, but rather as a means of induction...

Launch meeting Leiden Islam Academy: gathering knowledge and meeting people

December 8, 2016

The launch meeting of the Leiden Islam Academy on 7 December in the Academy Building drew just the right audience: a diverse group of...

Muslims in Scotland: The Making of Community in a Post-9/11 World

By Stefano Bonino | Edinburgh University Press (November 2016)

The experience of being a Muslim in Scotland today is shaped by the global and national post-9/11 shift in public attitudes towards Muslims, and is infused by the particular social, cultural and political Scottish ways of dealing with minorities, diversity and integration. This book explores the settlement and development of Muslim communities in Scotland, highlighting the ongoing changes in their structure and the move towards a Scottish experience of being Muslim. This experience combines a sense of civic...

RFP Announces 2017 Doctoral Research Fellowship Program

Studies on the Causes and Consequences of Religious Liberty

The Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs is offering summer Ph.D. dissertation fellowships for students exploring...

From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide

February 23-24, 2017 | The Manchester Museum, UK

The conference is part of a wider project to catalogue and research collections of Islamic art and material culture across the Manchester...

Call for Papers: Political Legitimacy in Islam

Journal of Islamic Ethics | Submission Deadline: 15 Feb 2017

The Center for the Study of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is pleased to invite interested academic researchers to submit their contributions to a special thematic issue of its Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE) dealing with “political legitimacy in Islam.”...

Imam Zakariya Academy

In Depth Study of Subjects Such as Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh and Their Principles
Alim Course
The aim of the Alimiyyah curriculum is to produce Ulama (scholars) and leaders who are competent in the Islamic sciences such as Tafsir and Hadith possessing the professional skills necessary to serve, guide and lead the Muslim community with excellence.