Global Islamic Studies focuses upon the analysis of the cultural, political and religious influence Muslims have in the globalized world by examining their past and present. You study how Islam became ...

Email: [[fmsheikh]] Interests: Comparative Religious Ethics; Ethical Formation; Muslim Ethics; Discourse and Subjectivity Office: Wren 305 comparative religious ethics; Islamic ethics; subjectivity ...

Visiting Scholar Samah Choudhury gave a lecture Tuesday afternoon on the evolution of stand-up comedy’s relationship with the ...

Frank Griffel, who is among the world’s leading scholars of Islamic intellectual history and philosophy, has been appointed the Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Religious Studies, effective ...

The first specialized academy of higher learning in Uzbekistan devoted exclusively to Islamic studies has been registered by the Justice Ministry in seemingly more evidence of a growing embrace of ...

In the mid-2000s, a sense that the Islamophobia brought on by the 9/11 terror attacks had somewhat eased gave rise to a new feeling of optimism among some Muslim ...

Much of the world today follows the Gregorian solar calendar, which has its origins in medieval Western Christianity. Conversely, the Islamic calendar or hijrī, is a lunar calendar. There are 12 ...

After more than a year of debate and negotiation, Harvard Divinity School has agreed to return a gift from a leader of the United Arab Emirates, at the Arab nation’s request. Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan ...

The Bible is a cultural force unlike no other. As a book, it outsells all others combined. As a source of authority, only the Constitution competes with it for influence. But what is the Bible, really ...

The Grand Mufti and Alfa Agba of Ibadanland, Dr Abdul-Baari Adetunji, has called on the government to recruit more teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies in public primary and secondary schools across ...