When Aminah McCloud plies the halls of DePaul University’s religious studies department, her curly gray hair hidden beneath a colorful cap, there are no clues the professor is a Muslim. So students ...

The University of Minnesota has taken the first steps to roll out an Islamic studies program following pressure from some members of the Religious Studies (RELS) program. Currently, students can ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...