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 ...
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 ...
In a formerly segregated school in rural Virginia, an Islamic college has been reconnecting its mostly Black American Muslim ...
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 world’s fifth wealthiest man, Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, is donating $20 million to Harvard to expand Islamic studies, the University announced yesterday. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Political allies are condemning a few of President Trump's latest tweets. They were re-tweets of anti-Muslim videos posted by the leader of a far-right extremist party in Britain.