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Fatimids and Umayyads | The Institute of Ismaili Studies

AMI Quarterly Update (April – June 2016)

NOW ENROLLING FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES & ARABIC..

Al-Mahdi Institute is now enrolling for Islamic Studies and Arabic available for full-time and part-time study, starting on 19th September 2016. Students can choose to study in-house at the institute, virtually online or virtually offline at any time and location around the world.

Tuition-fee waivers and full-time scholarships are also available.

Find out more about more here… http://www.almahdi.edu/four-year-hawza-programme-sub-menu

TO APPLY, please click here.. www.almahdi.edu/apply-online

Deadline for Applications is 30th August 2016. For any further queries, please email rukhsana.bhanji@almahdi.edu

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Call for Papers

The Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam is pleased to announce that an international Ismaili Studies Conference will take place on March 9 and 10, 2017 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. It will build on the remarkable success of the Ismaili Studies Conference: State of the Field held at the University of Chicago in 2014. These multidisciplinary gatherings are a progressive endeavour to provide opportunities for the presentation of research as well as for academic discussion and debate on the scholarly endeavour termed broadly as Ismaili Studies. They provide a pluralist locus for scholarship on the various entities and communities that are related to, have emerged from or are associated in other ways with Ismaili expressions of Islam in the past and the present. The conference also addresses these communities’ relations within the wider Shia, Muslim and other societies. Also of interest are the engagements across religious boundaries and the articulations of thought and faith in between dominantly defined religious and cultural domains. This multidisciplinary intellectual space includes but is not limited to the critical analysis of the histories, migrations, and institutions as well as of social, economic, political and cultural expressions. It is also inclusive of all geographical regions. Such an approach provides for a robust and integral understanding of a broadly situated Ismaili Studies.

Proposals for papers and panels are invited in the following areas,
but are not limited to:
 Art and architecture  Education  History  Institutional development  Inter-faith/inter-cultural relations  Khoja Studies  Literature  Media and communication  Migration, diaspora, transnationalism  Music  Philosophy and theology  Politics  Policy  Religious practice  Socio-economic development  Values and doctrines

Abstracts should be sent by July 8, 2016
to: Professor Karim H. Karim – karim_karim@carleton.ca
Director, Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam

Shia Muslim Studies – Centre for Islamic Shia Studies CISS

The 3rd issue of the Shi’a Studies Journal is available at:
http://shiastudies.org/docs/pdfs/shia-studies-e-journal-issue-3–27-june-2016.pdf?Status=Master&sfvrsn=2

CISS look forward to all feedback as we endeavor to make future editions enriched with thought provoking articles written by our future academic researchers. Graduate students, researchers and academics are invited to submit essays, book reviews and articles on Shi‘a Studies.

Arabia Saudí ante sus desafíos

Spanish-language VANGUARDIA Dossier on Saudi Arabia (No. 61, July-September 2016).

Contributors: Paul Aarts, W. Lippman, Andrew Hammond, David Commins, Toby Matthiesen, Mansoor Moaddel, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Jean-Francois Seznec, Caroline Montagu, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rodger Shanahan, Kenneth Weisbrode, and Rami Khoury.

http://www.lavanguardia.com/vanguardia-dossier/20160615/402521191134/vanguardia-dossier-arabia-saudi-desafios.html

Deconstructing Minorities/Majorities in Parliamentary Gulf States (Kuwait and Bahrain)

Contested modernity: divided rule and the birth of sectarianism, nationalism, and absolutism in Bahrain

Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies new issue: Vol IX – Issue 1