Global religious leaders, scientists join to release “Faith and Science: An Appeal for COP26”

October 4, 2021

Global religious leaders and leading scientists issued a joint statement on 4 October calling on the international community to raise their...

Thomas Jefferson’s Quran to visit Dubai Expo 2020

October 8, 2021

The historic English-language Quran has never traveled outside the United States. A copy of the Quran once owned by former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson will be displayed in the Unites States’ pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, the world’s fair currently underway in the UAE...

University of Bristol exonerates professor accused of Islamophobia

October 12, 2021

The University of Bristol, which recently sacked the pro-Palestine Professor David Miller, has now exonerated another lecturer accused of Islamophobia. In a ruling that has angered the...

Michigan attorney is first Muslim Arab American woman to stand before Supreme Court

October 8, 2021

Fadwa Hammoud’s appearance at the Supreme Court is one of several important firsts for Muslims in the American legal system in recent...

The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe

Publisher: Princeton University Press (June 22, 2021)

By Gábor Ágoston
The image of the Ottoman Turks and their interaction with the Christian West, has undergone many changes in the past: from William Gladstone's famous comment that: “[The Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.” To the more recent revisionist views of the 'cultural exchange' school, who de-emphasize the military conquest, endemic violence and proto-ethnic cleansing...

3rd Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference

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

The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context. The third conference in the series will cover the Islamic Rational Sciences and the Tools of Knowledge as both are tools in the service of sacred...

Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2021

“Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy” seeks to highlight how Islamic philosophy (falsafa/ḥikma) was practiced “in conversation”—between scholars, with various audiences, and with different disciplines, approaches, and rhetoric. Islamic philosophy was composed...

The 3rd Annual Statesmanship & Religious Freedom Seminar

24 Jan-18 Feb & May 18-20, 2022 | Washington DC and Online

The Statesmanship and Religious Freedom Seminar is an annual program for college students co-sponsored by the Museum of the Bible and the Religious Freedom Institute...

Visiting Assistant Professor Middle East/Islamic History

Colby College, USA | Application Deadline: December 1, 2021

The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning September 1, 2022. We are...

Bulliet Chair of Islamic History - Assistant Professor

Columbia University, NY, USA

The Department of History at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor as the Richard W. Bulliet Chair of Islamic History. We especially seek scholars...

The American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology (ASIP&T)

The American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology is a collaborative fellowship of scholars who are dedicated to deep and sustained rationalist [‘aqli] inquiry into fundamental questions of Philosophy and Theology via...