UK Muslim Student Association celebrated 50th Anniversary on campus

April 17, 2022

The University of Kentucky Muslim Student Association held its 50th Anniversary Celebration Banquet and fast-a-thon on April 16 in the...

80 U.S. Muslim groups call for federal investigation into anti-Muslim group’s ‘spying’

February 5, 2022

A letter signed by more than 80 Muslim organizations has been sent to the U.S. Department of Justice urging it to launch an...

Morrisons removes Ramadan calendar listing Al-Aqsa Mosque in Israel

March 31, 2022

The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain has withdrawn a Ramadan calendar from its stores that list the Al-Aqsa Mosque as located in Israel. The calendar was being sold on Morrisons’...

Call for inclusion of Muslims in debate on stem cell ethics

April 9, 2022

Voices of faith communities, especially Muslims, are relatively silent in the global discourse on stem cell ethics, experts in the field of stem cell research say as they call for the inclusion of...

Nation States and the Qur’an: Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022

We invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop that will deal with late Soviet and post-Soviet tafsir and Qur’an translation activities...

Workshop: Early Islamic Agriculture and Water Management: Talking about a “Revolution”

April 28, 2022 | Online (via Zoom)

In the workshop, three archaeological case studies which relate to agriculture and/or water management during Early Islam will be...

LUCIS Summer School 2022: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World

August 23 – September 2, 2022 | Leiden University, Netherlands

This Summer School is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers with an interest in handwritten sources, text editing, and the...

Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1, 2022

This conference brings together academics, civil society members, and activists from around the world. It explores Muslim experiences of pacifism and nonviolence while exploring prospects for their theorization. It moves past popular tropes of Islam as (or other than) 'a religion of peace'...

Call for Papers: “Muslims in America” a panel at “SAMLA 94”

November 11-13, 2022 | Abstract Deadline: June 29, 2022

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, performers, filmmakers, and visual artists. We welcome submissions that examine...

The Mosque in Transformation

30 June – 2 July 2022| Casa Árabe, Córdoba, Spain

The mosque, in its diverse architectural and visual expressions and as an institution, is considered one of the most significant manifestations of Islamic cultures. Over recent decades many questions became more complicated or persist unanswered. The formal...

BRAIS 2022: Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

June 6-7, 2022 | University of Edinburgh, UK

We are delighted to announce that the provisional program of the 2022 Annual Conference of the British Association for...

Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam

May 12, 2022 | Lipsius Building, Leiden, Netherlands

The study of the Islamic occult sciences has developed rapidly with impressive outcomes in the last 10 years. In addition to ground-breaking research, these include critical editions of...

Visiting Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in Islamic Studies, to begin August 2022. Teaching load is six courses for the academic year, three per semester. Teaching responsibilities include...