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Professor Leila Ahmed's book, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (1992) was published in a time in which there was little scholarship on the history of women in Islam. Over the years, it became a classic and was re-published in...

Former Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Fellows 2015 - 2016 Armaan Siddiqi Ph.D. candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ms. Siddiqi has cross-disciplinary interests in early modern Islamic intellectual history...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about how the health crisis, government-imposed lockdowns, and economic recession would affect religious faith and behavior. While many social scientists expected it to strengthen religiosity as people...

In this episode, Dr. Hussein Rashid talks about his recently published volume, Islam in North America: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2024), which he co-edited with Huma Mohibullah and Vincent Biondo. Hussein discusses his trajectory as a scholar and how...

In the first podcast episode of our "Climate Change and Muslim Societies" series, Dr. Safouan Azouzi discusses his research on Design for Social Innovation. Design, historically rooted in Eurocentric perspectives tied to capitalism and overconsumption...

We talk to Professor Teren Sevea, scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, about the importance of Southeast Asia and the broader Indian Ocean world to Islamic studies and why the region has been treated as peripheral in the...

Annual Conference We aim to explore the concepts and realities of toleration in the Islamic tradition with a focus on contemporary work, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the United States. Dates: March 1st & March 2nd Location: 1730 Cambridge Street -...