UN: Anti-Muslim hatred at ‘epidemic’ proportions

March 5, 2021

In response to security threats due to horrific acts purportedly carried out in the name of Islam, some states have responded by adopting measures that disproportionately target Muslims, the leading UN expert on freedom of religion said Thursday. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special...

UK Muslim leaders urge ‘respect for Islam’ after school incident

March 28, 2021

British Muslim leaders will warn UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the country “could become like France” amid controversy over a school teacher sharing a picture of Prophet...

CIS Journal of Islamic Ethics first to be accepted for Scopus-indexing in Qatar and the Middle East

March 31, 2021

First academic journal on Islamic ethics globally now included in prestigious academic database. The Journal of Islamic Ethics, established by...

France targets the hijab again while denying 'Islamophobia' exists

March 31, 2021

A dizzying array of anti-Muslim policies is now becoming a regular feature of French politics. The French parliament is set to ban Muslim women from attending their children's school trips...

Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst

Publisher: Equinox Publishing (March 24, 2021)

Edited by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Carl W. Ernst devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally, typically within the intellectual context of Religious Studies. His work has focused on how Islamic concepts have travelled across time and space, and his influence on Islamic Studies and Religious Studies is far-reaching. This volume features contributions from long-standing colleagues, scholars...

BRAIS 2021 Online Series

March-July 2021 | Online (via Zoom)

The Alwaleed Centre is the Management Hub of the British Association for Islamic Studies. In this capacity, the Centre is delighted to be hosting the BRAIS 2021 Online series which will see over 50 cutting edge academic papers delivered via 15 online panels between March and July 2021. BRAIS was forced to cancel its 2020 Annual Conference, scheduled to take place at the...

Conference: Wellbeing, Harm, and Religion

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021

Specific ideas about what constitutes harm and wellbeing have been historically shaped by different religious traditions considerably. Throughout the history of the human species, illnesses, injuries, and diseases were often dealt with through religious rituals, as evidenced...

The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān 1924; Texts, Histories & Challenges

Call for Papers | Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2021

This conference offers an historical reflection on the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān made under the authority of al-Azhar committee in 1924 and also known as the “King Fuʾād’s edition”...

Book Launch: Islam and the Liberal State

April 22, 2021 | Online

You are warmly invited to the launch of Stephen H. Jones’s book ‘Islam and the Liberal State’, published by IB Tauris in November 2020. In the book Jones narrates a gradual but, he argues, decisive shift in British Islamic institutions since Muslims settled in the UK in large numbers in...

International Intensive Academic Course on Shi’i Studies

July 12-31, 2021 | Online (via Zoom)

This workshop will bring together case studies and theoretical reflections on the study of religion as an object of historical and social scientific inquiry in different academic contexts in the...

Islamic Course: Essential Fiqh for Modern Times

By Cambridge Islamic College

This program deals with the most challenging questions of jurisprudence and practice in the modern world. The world is becoming evermore complex with many new forms of economic, social and technological phenomena imposed on the lives of people. The sad reality is that some...

Islam and Constitutions. The Law and Politics of Sharia Provisions

May 12-26, 2021 | Online

Introducing the foundations of constitutional law, the articulations of contemporary State-Islam relations and models of sharia provision. Why all the hype about Islam when drafting a...