New guidance produced for journalists covering Muslims and Islam

November 13, 2020

New guidance has been issued for journalists reporting on Muslims and Islam. The Independent Press Standards Organisation has produced the guidance, which outlines key...

HBKU’s College of Islamic Studies faculty recognized on list of Islamic finance influencers

October 28, 2020

The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) ability to frame contemporary debates on Islam in a global...

CIS webinar joins dots between Islamic social finance & UN Sustainable Development Goals

October 11, 2020

The potential for Zakat financing to fill funding gaps for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals was the opening subject of a three-part...

Macron accuses English-language media of 'legitimising' violence in France

November 16, 2020

Facing protests in the Muslim world over his response to terror attacks in France, President Emmanuel Macron phoned a New York Times...

Religious intolerance is 'bigger cause of prejudice than race', says report

November 15, 2020

How We Get Along, a two-year study of diversity by the Woolf Institute, is due to conclude that most people are tolerant of those from different ethnic or national backgrounds, but many have...

It took a century to open a mosque in Athens. Then came the pandemic.

November 14, 2020

The mosque that took more than a century to open, surviving legal, political and financial challenges, has closed in less than a week, a temporary victim of the coronavirus pandemic...

French Muslims, stigmatized by attacks, feel under pressure

November 1, 2020

The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest...

MIDA/ENIS Summer School 2021

July 5-9, 2021 | Catania, Sicily, Italy

The main objective of this school is to investigate the image–text relations in Muslim traditions by applying to different genres of images and texts and by thinking about how they are affected by translation or interpretation. The Summer School will bring together advanced academics and...

Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the 20th Century: Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents

Call for Papers | Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2021

When Ignaz Goldziher passed away on November 13, 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific correspondence of over 13,000 letters from...

Christianity in Iraq at the Turn of Islam: History & Archaeology

Call for Papers | Submission Deadline: February 28, 2021

An international round table organized on May 4 and 5, 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of...

Euro-Islam – news and analysis on Islam in Europe & North America

This project is led by Professor Jocelyne Cesari and is supported by the University's Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion. Euro-Islam is a network of scholars who conduct comparative research on Islam and Muslims in Europe and North America, and...