Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level

November 15, 2017

The number of assaults against Muslims in the United States rose significantly between 2015 and 2016, easily surpassing the modern peak reached in 2001, the year of the Sep. 11 attacks, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new hate crimes statistics from the FBI...

Czech Republic's tiny Muslim community subject to hate

November 13, 2017

Though no exact figures exist, the Muslim community in the Czech Republic is small, between 5,000 and 20,000, or less than 0.02% of the total population. Just a portion lives in...

The Challenge of Islam in the UK

November 14, 2017

At the last census in 2011, there were 2.7 million Muslims in the UK, or 4.8% of the population. This has risen quite rapidly from only 105,000 in 1960. The previous census in 2001 showed a Muslim population of 1.6 million. Islam was the fastest growing religion in the UK over the...

Workshop: The Study of Ḥadīth Commentaries

30 November - 2 December 2017 | Hamburg, Germany

Ḥadīth commentators carry out an intellectually demanding task: they explain the meaning and scope of a Prophetic tradition by embedding it in the larger context of Islamic scholarship while considering the interdependence of its various disciplines. The genre of ḥadīth commentaries...

Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective: Publics and Performances

February 19-21, 2018 | Kents Hill, Milton Keynes, UK

Bringing historical perspective to the contemporary role of religion in the public sphere, this conference will include contributions from practitioners and 3rd-sector organizations...

Workshop: 'From Oriens Christianus to the Islamic Near East'

December 7-8, 2017 | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

The workshop seeks to shed new light on the crossroads at which the Late Antique world of the Eastern Mediterranean heralded diverse exchanges between Oriental Christendom,...

International Islamic Studies and Civilisations Conference 2017

December 2-3, 2017 | Bangi, Malaysia

The breadth and diversity of research areas concerning Islamic Studies and Civilisations is a testimony of the importance of this discipline especially when it involves more than 1 billion...

The International Institute for Peace and Religions (IIPR)

The International Institute for Peace and Religions (IIPR) was first established in 2011 as “Muslim Christian Interfaith Dialogue” association (MCID) affiliated by Islamic Seminary of the Holy City of Qom (Hawzah Ilmiyya of Qom), then...