Message of Condolence on the Occasion of Passing Away of Professor Mahmoud Ayoub

November 1, 2021

Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, a prominent Shia scholar and Honorary Faculty Associate in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford...

Hijab campaign tweets pulled by Council of Europe after French backlash

November 4, 2021

Europe's top human rights organization has pulled posters from a campaign that promoted respect for Muslim women who choose to wear...

Anti-Muslim hate crimes make almost half of religiously aggravated offences

November 4, 2021

Muslim organizations are working towards tackling Islamophobia and victims of the offences. Muslims have been the target of...

US Muslims gave more to charity than other Americans in 2020

November 5, 2021

Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, we found in a new study. They are also more likely to volunteer, we learned. Only 1.1% of all Americans are Muslim...

A new generation of Muslim American media puts women in focus

November 1, 2021

East London-born Rifat Malik was recently appointed as the editor in chief of a new American publication centering the work of Muslim women journalists. "Muslim women...

Hijab: Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives

Publisher: Gingko Library (September 3, 2021)

By Lloyd Ridgeon
This book provides an overview of the range of seminarian thinking in Iran on the controversial topic of the hijab. During the modern period, Iran has suffered a great deal of conflict and confusion caused by the impact of Western views on the hijab in the 19th century, Riza Shah Pahlavi’s 1936 decree banning Islamic head coverings, and the imposition of the veil in the wake of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Ḥijāb addresses the differences of opinion among seminarians on the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, focusing on three representative thinkers: Murtaza...

Call for Book Manuscripts: The Early and Medieval Islamic World Series

Call for Book Manuscripts

I.B.Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking manuscripts and book proposals for The Early Medieval and Islamic World book...

Summer School for Doctoral Students on “The Qur'an in Inter-Christian Polemic”

June 13-17, 2022 | Nantes, France

How have Christian authors in Europe used and appropriated the Qur’an? We are interested in how the Qur’an was used as a historical and...

Ph.D. in Interreligious Studies

Hartford International University | Deadline: January 31, 2022

Hartford International University’s Ph.D. program provides advanced study in the knowledge and practical application of relations between religious traditions, and in Abrahamic religious studies more specifically (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). Ph.D. graduates gain rigorous...

Theology and Religious Studies Mphil

University of Nottingham, UK

We provide you with the time and support to explore your questions about Theology and Religious Studies. We have particular strengths in the following areas: Theology and Philosophy; Religion, Culture, and Ethics; Science, Technology, and Nature; Biblical Studies;...

Historical Muslim Societies

Research Program at Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society
How did institutions and structures operate throughout the Muslim world from the earliest history of Islam into the early modern period? From officially sanctioned top-down systems to informal bottom-up initiatives, this program...