The Hoya

New Islamic Studies Minor to Offer Courses in History, Culture

The Georgetown University department of Arabic and Islamic studies will inaugurate an Islamic studies minor beginning in the Fall 2025 semester, members of the department confirmed to The Hoya Feb. 13 ...
SFGate

Islamic studies on the rise / Colleges responding to increased interest

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 ...
Eurasianet

Uzbekistan Opens Islamic Studies Academy

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 ...
Brandeis University

Bachelor of Arts in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The interdepartmental program in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) has been discontinued and returned to a track (Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS). The ...
Connecticut College Arboretum

Majoring in Global Islamic Studies

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 ...
Chronicle

Mbaye Lo Named Director of Duke’s Islamic Studies Center and Middle East Studies Center

Mbaye Lo has been appointed director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center, effective Aug. 1. Lo, a professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore

Singapore College of Islamic Studies advisory panel holds first meeting

SINGAPORE: The advisory panel for the Singapore College of Islamic Studies (SCIS) gathered for its inaugural meeting on Tuesday (Jun 24), bringing together scholars from global institutions. The panel ...
Brandeis University

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Program

The interdepartmental program in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) has been discontinued and returned to a track (Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS).
Minnesota Reformer

Hamza Dudgeon

Hamza Dudgeon is a doctoral candidate of Islamic Studies at Emory University and a published scholar of Islamic intellectual ...
The Christian Century

The Dominican friars whose library is transforming Islamic studies

Almost a hundred years ago, Antonin Jaussen, a Dominican friar, was sent to Cairo to set up a small priory. The plan was for him to establish a center of study in Egyptian archaeology. But Jaussen ...
Princeton University

Michael Cook awarded Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies

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 ...