Encyclopedia Iranica is a great resource to bookmark. Farhad Daftary received his Ph.D. from the…
Category: Islam
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The Algerian philosopher and reformist thinker Mohammed Arkoun, a man who crossed cultural borders and…
“There are certain groups that are unable to come to terms with the reality that…
Earlier this week, the world lost one of the most influential minds in contemporary Islamic…
Professor Mohammed Arkoun, one of the most prominent and influential figures in Islamic Studies, passed…
For more than fourteen hundred years, Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about many…
In the spring of 2010, Harvard University, for the first time in its history, offered…
Ramadan is the holy month in which Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his…
The Ismaili Video: Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi delivers the Yawm-e Ali lecture at the Ismaili Centre, London
The 2010 Yawm-e Ali Lecture at the Ismaili Centre, London was delivered on 14 July…
The Quran is a compilation of utterances by the Prophet Muhammad which all Muslims hold…
The school of philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century CE, based on the…
This war of words between President Obama and General Petraeus has profound implications on the…
The 2010 Gerda Henkel Prize, worth € 100,000, goes to the Berlin-based expert on Islamic…