Islamophobia in American Public Schools

March 22, 2022

A CAIR report on Muslim bullying details that nearly 50% of Muslims in California schools are being bullied by students, teachers, and other school personnel, and more than 55% of Muslim students feel unsafe as at school. The unfortunate reality is that administrators are...

UN sets March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia

March 16, 2022

The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Tuesday setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The resolution, adopted by consensus by the 193-member...

Study: Christians, Jews and Muslims encounter workplace discrimination differently

March 16, 2022

While Muslims and Jews say they’ve felt targeted by anti-Islamic and antisemitic rhetoric, it’s most often in the context of being seen as part of a...

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Publisher: Brill (June 24, 2021)

Edited by: Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack
The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and...

A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire

December 8-10, 2022 | Leiden University, Netherlands

For the final conference of the Embedding Conquest: Naturalizing Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) project we will...

The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Morifs

Call for Papers | Abstract Deadline: May 6, 2022

The three-day international conference pioneers in its focus on the relationship between the Qurʾān with Syriac Christianity. The event will bring together an international group of...

Online Short Course: Islam and Creativity in Popular Culture

12, 19, and 26 September 2022 | Online (via Zoom)

This is a three-day online course that addresses the many new expressions of mass mediated creative arts that make reference to Islam. These expressions may be motivated by a wish to...

PhD Studentship in Arab and Islamic Studies

University of Exeter, UK | Application Deadline: May 3, 2022

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is seeking applications for three PhD studentships for excellent doctoral students whose area of specialization fits and complements the research interests of our academics. We are looking for PhD proposals in humanities and social...

ICIS 2022: International Conference on Islamic Studies

April 21-22, 2022 | London, United Kingdom

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference...

Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
CSoC was founded by Prof. Haim Hames in 2012 as an inter-university I-CORE project. In 2018, CSoC became a BGU center in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and has...