As a Jewish woman studying Islam and Arabic, I inevitably get one of two reactions from my community when I reveal my academic interests: The majority of people are kind and interested, and make it ...

Richard Hoffman, chairman of the history department at San Francisco State University, has been asking for years for money to hire an Islamic studies professor. Before Sept. 11, it was an uphill ...

The past decade has seen Islamic studies take on a new prominence in academic circles. Governments are demanding increasing amounts of research to inform foreign policy towards the Islamic world and ...

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Courses in the Islamic Studies Pathway investigate Islam not only as a religion but also as a civilization and as a variety of cultural traditions, which have taken diverse forms in Muslim societies ...

Islamic studies are a wide umbrella term covering a number of areas of interest. It broadly refers to the study of Islam and its philosophy as well as the various aspects of academic knowledge that ...

The International Balzan Foundation has awarded Michael Cook, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, the 2019 Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies. The prize comes with an award ...

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Australian Muslims have spent decades building grassroots religious leadership within civic spaces — these systems, while not perfect, provide accountability and independence that top-down regulation ...