Previous Islamic Studies events

26th January - Masters Opportunities in Philosophy, Theology and Religion Webinar

30th March - Language as law: how an 8th century jurist approached the language of Qur'an and Hadith

23rd March - Myth making and gender construction among Islamist violent extremist groups in Pakistan

9th March - Moral reasoning, animal slaughter, and the ironies of contemporary Shi'i jurisprudence

16th February - The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyya on the Gospels relation to the Torah

2nd February - The dinner table prejudice: a new survey on Islamophobia in contemporary Britain

24th March - Perennialism and Politics

10th March - Islam and Gendered Subjectivities

3rd March - Islam, Gender and Tradition

11th February - Re-Calling the Caliphate

26th-27th April - Sufism and Philosophy: Historical Interactions and Crosspollinations

4th December - Abul Ala Maududi's theo-democracy: Locating sovereignty in colonial and post-colonial states

20th November - Elephants, pomegranates, and the attributes of God: The Quranic worlds of Ignazio Lomellini and Lodovico Marracci

16th November - Elements of Displacement workshop at DaDa Festival

23rd October - The political impact of the self during the Islamic Revolution

9th October - Muslim feminist methodologies and the reform of Sharia Councils in Britain

1st June - Muslim Women and Radicalization

9th May - The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Forum 2nd Annual Post-graduate Symposium

16th-17th April - Europe's new migrants: marriage practices and policies

19th March - Islamic studies – scientific or confessional? A contested university subject

5th March - Market Islam and organising Hajj-going in late modern Britain: tour operators, pilgrim welfare and UK governance

19th February - Gendering prophecy in the Islamic tradition

29th January - Untold stories: Arab media provision for children

25th January - Forbidden Fruit: Translating the Qur'an in early modern Europe

15th January - The obligation to migrate and the impulse to narrate: forced migration from the Caucasus to Ottoman lands in the Soviet literary imagination

5th December - Islamophobia, literature and culture

23rd November - Muslim Societies and Islam

21st November - Body and spirit in early Islamic theology

7th November - Funding research on transnational Islam: the ALTERUMMA project

25th October - Theology and Religion Research Project Seminar

17th October - The complexities of "talking back" - How Dutch Muslims claim a public voice in the face of the racialisation of Islam

3rd October - Academic freedom and free speech in a time of 'terror'

27th March - Exploring Radicalisation and Securitisation

21st March - Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Problem of Truthmaking in Medieval Arabic Thought

14th March - Seeing the Face of the Divine: Conceptions of God and the Cosmos in early Medieval Shiʿi Thought

7th March - Scriptural hermeneutics as philosophy: al-Shahrastani's Mafatih al-Asrar

28th February - Jewish Materials (isrāʾīlīyāt) in the Qurʾān and the 'Anxiety of Influence': Reflections on a Religious Debate

21st February - On European Islam: New Pathways beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism

7th February - Contesting Ibn Taymiyyah: the debate between Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhāb and his brother Sulayman

31st January - Publicly Funded Islamic Education in Europe: an opportunity for equal rights or a way to control Islam?

24th January - I give you my word: Law and Medieval Islamicate Societies

17th-30th January - Objects of Knowledge in Kalām

10th-30th January - From Banning Burkinis to Halal Hysteria: constructing Islamophobia in the social and political spaces

6th December - Ibn Taymiyya's uses of Ibn Rushd on God's attributes

29th November - Questions in the history of Muslim education

22nd November - Is there a crisis in Muslim masculinity? Exploring the construction of Muslim masculinity in contemporary times and the impact of this

8th November - The legal status of Muslims in Switzerland

25th October - A jurist among judges: The role of the mufti in South Asia

18th October - Can the idea of a British Islam be rescued? Using the example of institutional change to trace British Muslim integration

11th October - The School of Ra'y: Legal rationalism and its place in the early classical Hanafi school

4th October - Using the 'other': Morisco 'borrowings' from Christian authors

5th May - Arabic and Persian printing history and culture

15th March - Points on translation and interpretation of the Qur'an

8th March - Muslims Living in non-Muslim Lands: Anti-Sharia Movements in the West in Light of Traditional Islamic Jurisprudence

23rd February - Understanding gender in the apocalyptic and utopian thinking of so called Islamic State

9th February - From Europe to the Gulf: religious rituals among Shia women in London and Kuwait

2nd February - Muslims living in non-Muslim lands: anti-Sharia movements in the West in light of traditional Islamic jurisprudence

26th January - The Houthis: their history, ideology and impact on the future of Yemen

19th January - Hermeneutics of a justice orientated reading of Shari'a in Shi'i thought

8th January - Will the real Ibn Taymiyya please stand up? Hunting for Ibn Taymiyya's theological ethics.

8th December - The Hidden World of Islam in Britain: Tawiz, Sihr and Exorcism

1st December - The Mosque in the Qur'an

24th November - The Houthis: their history, ideology and impact on the future of Yemen

17th November - Hermeneutics of a justice orientated reading of Shari'a in Shi'i thought

10th November - The Minimalisation of Christianity under Islamic rule.

27th October - Abrogation in the Qur'an: History and Myths

20th October - Islam in Europe: Retrenchment and Renewal

13th October - Mutahhari, the Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution.

2nd-25th October - The Birmingham Qur'an Manuscript Exhibition

4th June - Scholars of Islam workshop

4th February - Said Nursi's notion of sacred science: Its function and application in Hizmet High School education

21st January - How can we research Islam properly in the current climate?

10th December - The Arabic-Afrikaans manuscript tradition: Its material production and theological impact on South Africa's Muslims

3rd December - Living without why. A Muslim's attempt to authenticity

27th June - Collaborative partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions: dismantling the roadblocks

23rd May - Collaborative partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions: dismantling the roadblocks

15th May - Postgraduate workshop: Improving your writing skills

18th March - Introducing Christian-Muslim Relations: a bibliographical history

19th February - Sufism Islamic mysticism or is it just an essential aspect of Islam?

5th February - Islamism and the empowerment of women in Syria

15th January - Kitab al-Majdal in the 11th century Historical setting