US study criticizes marginalizing Muslims in media and cinema

January 20, 2023

The ‘Los Angeles Times’ published a detailed article on Muslims in the United States of America, in which it indicated that Muslim immigrants suffer from abuse in the media, in...

Encouraging diversity, Muslim cycling group features in BBC documentary

January 9, 2023

A Liverpool cycling group aimed at promoting cycling among Muslim mothers, asylum seekers, and people from across the wider community is...

Human Rights in Islamic Societies: Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

Publisher: Routledge (January 9, 2023)

By Ahmed E. Souaiaia
This book compares Islamic and Western ideas of human rights in order to ascertain which human rights, if any, can be considered universal. This is a profound topic with a rich history that is highly relevant within global politics and society today. The arguments in this book are formed by bringing William Talbott’s Which Rights Should Be Universal? (2005) and Abdulaziz Sachedina’s Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (2014) into conversation...

Reporting Islam: Muslim Women in the New York Times, 1979-2011

Publisher: I.B. Tauris (January 26, 2023)

By Suad Joseph
Reporting Islam examines the coverage of Muslim women in the New York Times from 1979-2011. The analysis addresses the nature of the coverage; whether there are parallels in the depiction of Muslim women from the Middle East and South Asia and with the US government policies toward these countries; and the relationship between feminism in the US and the representation of Muslim women in the US. At a time when women often become...

Anglophone Islam: A New Conceptual Category

By Abdul-Azim Ahmed

The field of ‘Islamic Studies’, like ‘Religious Studies’, is a broad-church. It includes a number of epistemological and ontological positions associated with a range of disciplines. The diversity inherent in a category such as ‘Islamic Studies’ is challenged by a bifurcation of two...

CFP: Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule

Call for Papers | Publisher: Brill

The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and...

Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations Research Seminar

Spring 2023 | Online & University of Edinburgh

The seminar takes place on Tuesdays, 16:10 GMT at the School of Divinity. The talks are online and in person. Those wishing to attend online should contact srassi@ed.ac.uk. The schedule is as...

Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations Program

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations program, housed within the School of Divinity at The University of Edinburgh draws on the strengths of one of the most distinguished centers of religious and theological studies in the UK. It offers a deep and broad study of the rich intellectual traditions of Islamic law, theology and philosophy in...

Hussaini Association of Calgary

Hussaini Association of Calgary (HAC) is a registered Charitable organization in Canada. It was established in 1982 in Calgary. Hussaini Association of Calgary is committed to providing opportunities and facilities for all its members, in following Islam and promoting the true teachings of Islam in accordance with Fiqh-e-Jaffaria...