Al-Mahdi Institute’s Research Seminars are a platform that brings together academic researchers, postgraduate students and other practitioners from different institutions for the dynamic exchange of ideas and research. The key objective is to showcase, develop and encourage cutting edge research in those areas of the study of Islam and Muslim societies that corresponds to the overall goals and aspirations of the Institute.

The Institute invites and facilitates renowned academics to present their research papers in a unique forum, which includes the Institute’s faculty and post-graduate students, alongside practitioners and experts from across a wide institutional base. The aim is for participants to gain information regarding the latest research in a variety of fields, as well as being given the opportunity to contribute to the further development of the research ideas presented.

Research Seminars are held at 3pm on Thursday afternoons, for further information and registration details email sakina.jaffer@almahdi.edu.

Upcoming Research Seminars for 2016:

• 24^th November 2016: Professor Mohammed Iqbal Asaria (CASS Business School – City, University of London)

“Re-Thinking Economics Post the Global Financial Crisis – An Islamic Economics Perspective”

• 15^th December 2016: Professor Timothy Winter/ Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (University of Cambridge)

“The Second Vatican Council and the New Catholic Theology of Islam”

• 19^th January 2017: Dr Mohammadreza Kalantari (Royal Holloway, University of London)

“Lost in Translation: Taqlid and Marja’yya in Shiite Islam”

More information at: www.almahdi.edu