The first session of the Masterclass Series “The Past and Future of Islamic Studies” will take place on July 7. The theme for this session is “Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Islam and of Islamic History” and the speakers are dr. Edmund Hayes, prof. Aaron Hughes and prof. Christian Lange. Please see the program below. For…

The Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) in Doha, Qatar and Leuven Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LCSICS) are organizing an online summer school Online Summer School “Islamic Ethics and the Covid-19 Pandemic” from 9-12 August 2020. The registration deadline is July 20. Please click here for more information about the…

On June 30, Andrei Tirtan will defend his dissertation “Contrasting visions and purposes of Muslim unity: Pan-Islamism(s) and Muslim political activism in Interwar Europe.” The defense will start at 14.00 and will take place online. For more information, please click here.

The ENIS/MIDA Summer School starts in less than two weeks! The full program is now available here. Keynote lectures will be given by Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen), Suad Joseph (University of California, Davis), Hilary Kalmbach (University of Sussex), Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield), Arshad Muradin(Leiden University) and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton University). Furthermore, there will be a masterclass by Albrecht Fuess (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam): “What is Islam?” Definitions and…