Statement BY IRIC in Condemnation of the Martyrdom of High School Girls in Afghanistan

May 16, 2021

“We belong to Allah, and to Him shall we return” [The Holy Quran] The horrific and gruesome news about the martyrdom of more than 50...

American Muslim groups boycott White House Eid celebration

May 17, 2021

A number of prominent Democrats and Muslim American groups pushed back against the timing and fanfare of the event, as fighting between Israelis and Palestinians continues to rock the...

Muslims and Catholics in Orange County to unite for Eid al-Fitr prayers

May 12, 2021

Leaders at the Islamic Center of Fullerton, a growing congregation in Orange County, feared they would go a second year without gathering in person for Eid-al-Fitr prayers that mark the...

The Virtues Symposium

May 21, 2021

The Virtues Project explores ways that classical traditions of virtue, rooted in the transcendent, might serve as a potent antidote to the plummeting consensus in America on what it means to pursue the common good. Without ignoring or trivializing theological differences between Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the project seeks to foster a shared sense of...

Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 30, 2021)

By Justin K. Stearns
Demonstrating the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco, Revealed Sciences examines how the natural sciences flourished during this period, without developing in a similar way to the natural sciences in Europe. Offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between religious thought and the natural...

Conference: “Esotericism and the Qur’an”

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: June 25, 2021

The objective of this conference is to take stock of these esoteric uses of the Qur’an and to examine how they relate to each other and to non-esoteric traditions and methods, to set them in the broader context of Muslim uses and interpretations of the Qur’an. We invite...

“Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an?”

June 2-4, 2021 | University of Strasbourg / Online

This conference intends to investigate the evolution and place of the Qur’anic text in early Islam within a specific spatial and temporal context: the central region of Syria and Palestine (Bilād al-Shām) under the Umayyad caliphate dynasty (661-750). The colloquium will be...

Diploma in Usul al Fiqh & Fiqh Studies

By Cambridge Islamic College

The main emphasis of this course is that for one to be competent in jurisprudence he or she has to be constantly researching, thinking and exploring, and that it is not enough to be just relying on certain set of books to formulate jurisprudential rulings. This is illustrated by the...

Common Moral Commitments in an Age of Individual Autonomy

June 17-19, 2021 | JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes, FL, USA

This event is the first in a series of student academic colloquia entitled, “Foundations of Religious Liberty: Scholarly Seminars for Serious Students” devoted to understanding the...

4 PhD Positions - Empires: Dynamic Transformation, Temporality and Postimperial Orders

University of Freiburg, Germany |Application Deadline: July 7, 2021

The Research Training Group 2571 funded by the German Research Council (DFG) invites applications for 4 three-year PhD Positions....

Call for Book Chapters: “Islam and Politics in the 21st Century”

Call for Book Chapters | Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2021

This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its...

“Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: June 13, 2021

This workshop seeks to explore the contours of the politics around cultural heritage and the ways it is enmeshed with the religious-secular dynamics in societies past and present...