Previous Events
Over the past years the Centre has run many events, talks, conferences and seminars. These pages showcase a few of them:
For other events please see below – and for videos of past talks please go here: http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/videos-and-podcasts/
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Living Well, Dying Well
On Saturday 27 October the Centre co-hosted an event with ‘Dying for Life’ at the Keynes Hall in Kings College. The event challenged members of the public and our panel […]
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Ryan Williams, Cambridge University United Nations Association talk
Over the weekend of 15 September the Cambridge University United Nations Association in cooperation with the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) held a diplomatic conference for hundreds of […]
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Dr Mehrunisha Suleman contributed to a collection of views on legal limit for embryo research
Dr Mehrunisha Suleman attended the Nuffield Council meeting on Bioethics and contributed to a collection of views on legal limit for embryo research, 25 years after UK’s first fertility legislation came […]
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Values in End of Life Care: Caring for Muslim patients
On June 29th 2017 the Centre of Islamic Studies hosted an interdisciplinary meeting of healthcare practitioners, academics, spiritual leaders and policy makers. The seminar brought together UK wide experts in […]
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Congratulations to students completing ‘The Good Life and the Good Society’!
On April 26 we celebrated the achievements of our students who took part in a course on Theology and Religious Studies on ‘The Good Life and the Good Society’. The […]
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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence, 27 March 2017
We are delighted to announce that Dr Mehrunisha Suleman, a research associate at the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, was awarded […]
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Narratives of Islamic Civilisation: Questioning the Model of Golden Age and Decline
This one-day seminar, organised by the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, took place at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge on […]
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Perspectives on Islam, Croydon High School for girls
The Croydon High School for girls welcomed 14 external schools to the Religious Studies Conference on Islam, giving them 160 delegates. The programme consisted of seven speakers featuring academics from […]
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Perspectives in End of Life Care: Caring for the Muslim Patient
SICM Mahfil Ali 20th Januray 2017 Perspectives in End of Life Care: Caring for the Muslim Patient Led by: Dr Mehrunisha Suleman, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of […]
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Health diplomacy: A new approach to the Muslim World
Oxford-Amsterdam Winter School, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford January 18th 2017 – Teaching Room, New Richards Building, Old Road Campus Health diplomacy: A new approach to the Muslim World Led […]
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UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (7-11 November 2016)
UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (7-11 November 2016) Co-Led by: Dr Mehrunisha Suleman, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge http://en.unesco.org/events/ethics-teacher-training-course-12 Dr Mehrunisha Suleman, research associate […]
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas – October 19th 2016
Cambridge Festival of Ideas – October 19th 2016 Led by: Dr Mehrunisha Suleman, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/entrusting-life-muslim-perspective The Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, […]
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Call for Papers: Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium 12-13 May 2017
Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium, University of Cambridge, 12-13 May 2017 Organised by the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge […]
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Perspectives on End of Life Care: Caring for the Muslim patient
7th February 2017, Institute of Public Health, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Campus Perspectives on End of Life Care: Caring for the Muslim patient Presenter: Dr Mehrunisha Suleman, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic […]
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Global Muslim Encounters Conference, Cambridge
The Centre of Islamic Studies co-sponsored and participated in the Global Muslim Encounters conference held in Cambridge between 9-10 December. The two-day inter-disciplinary CRASSH conference aimed to both compare and […]
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Annual research day, Cambridge
A research symposium day took place at King’s College, Beves room, Cambridge on Tuesday 6 December 2016 which brought together members of the CIS community, including visiting scholars (Ahmed Izzidien), visiting fellows […]
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Narratives of Conversion to Islam: Male Perspectives – Report Launch, Cambridge
The launch discussed and reflected on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ research project on Conversion to Islam that focused on the experiences of nearly 50 British men of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths (or no faith) – who have all converted to Islam.
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Prince Alwaleed Centers Convene at the University of Cambridge with Senior Policy Makers, Diplomats and Experts to Share Research and Insights
A series of meetings on Muslim engagement with the western world took place at the University of Cambridge and was attended by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewics, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and the six Alwaleed academic Centres.
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Narratives of Conversion to Islam: Male Perspectives Report Launches
The Centre of Islamic Studies’ launches its report ‘Narratives of Conversion to Islam in Britain – Male Perspectives’ at SOAS and at the University of Cambridge.
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Symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
Julian Hargreaves, Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies, presents a Symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime on 16 June 2015.
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A Talk, Reading and Q&A with Carla Power on ‘If the Oceans Were Ink’
A talk, reading and Q&A with Carla Power, author of ‘If the Oceans Were Ink – An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran’
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Visiting Scholars Meeting
The Centre of Islamic Studies held a research meeting for its visiting academics. The afternoon event was an opportunity for new scholars to share their research with staff of the Centre and invited guests.
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Symposium on Religious Conversion
The Symposium provided a platform for leading academics, experienced practitioners and postgraduate students to present their work in the field of religious conversion from different faith perspectives, disciplines and time periods.
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Yonatan Mendel on Arabic in Israel
Dr. Mendel and Professor Yasir Suleiman provide an unusual view of the Arab-Israeli conflict: through the lens of language studies.
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“Social Media Reconsidered” Symposium
The “Social Media Reconsidered” Symposium is the fifth in a series of symposia articulating a comparative academic perspective between the UK and Morocco.
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Migration to Morocco and the UK: Past, Present and Future/ Between Policy and the Everyday
The fourth in a series of symposia on Morocco. The papers brought together a fascinating plurality of perspectives from the cultural to the jurisprudential via the socio-anthropological and the economic.
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Cambridge Qur’an Seminar
The CQS will present the University of Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Collection in its wider codicological and historical context, while showcasing the distinctive features of particular manuscripts.
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The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Cultural Productions in Morocco
The conference explores the role played by literature, cinema, and music among other genres of cultural products in revealing the complex social and political tensions in a society aspiring to freedom.
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We’re not just talking about Islam
2 July 2012 Sharon Memis, Director of the British Council in the United States For the last decade, discussions of Islam in the UK, the US, and much of continental […]
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Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism, Arab Spring
Nicholas Burns, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and Ali Asani participated in a panel on Islamophobia, anti-Americanism, and the Arab Spring at Loeb House
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Contemporary Economic Policy in Morocco
This workshop will explore how economic policy can bring about job creation in the future, especially for younger Moroccans below forty years of age.
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Morocco: From World War Two to Independence
An international group of scholars will explore the roots of Morocco’s political landscape in a foundational, but little understood, period of its modern history at an event this week.
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Workshop on North Africa
This workshop will examine, from a North African point-of-view, the nature of the complex phenomena of radicalism and extremism in North Africa.
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Conference on Radicalisation
In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed by policy-makers and academics towards ‘radicalisation’, as the sum of the processes by which individuals are persuaded into such courses of action.
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Annual Meeting of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Academic Centres
The event reflected on the current state of the relationship between the World of Islam and the West, as seen from diverse locations of the Prince Alwaleed centers.
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Yasir Suleiman lectures at AUS on Contextualizing Islam in Britain
Professor Yasir Suleiman gives a thrilling lecture at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) exploring the challenges Muslims are facing and are posing in British society.
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Intertwined Worlds
A conference which aims to establish wider recognition for a “Judaeo-Islamic tradition”; the shared, cultural past common to Muslims, Arabs and Jews, will take place in Cambridge this weekend.
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Scholar of culture and language to visit Indiana University
Professor Yasir Suleiman discusses language and its importance for identity as individuals or members of social, ethnic or national groups.
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Royal Opening for the Centre
During the ceremony at Cambridge, Princess Ameerah, vice chairwoman of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, was greeted by the Chancellor Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Vice-Chancellor, professor Leszek Borysiewicz.
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A new perspective on the Arabic language
Professor Yasir Suleiman reviews his activities as Sultan Qaboos Chair and what he considers to be the potential benefits of meeting the other Sultan Qaboos scholars during a symposium at SQC in Muscat.
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Graduation ceremony for young British Muslims
A graduation ceremony will today mark the end of the Al-Azhar Cambridge Programme, created to train the next generation of Islamic leaders.
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Should the NHS employ hospital chaplains?
The conference seeks to understand how in Judaism and Islam ideas attached to death generate meanings for the living.
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Agents of Change
An international summit which aims to give young Muslims the skills, ideas and inspiration to become “agents of change” in their own communities begins in Cambridge this weekend.
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Cambridge launches Al-Azhar partnership to train young Muslim faith leaders
An intensive professional training course has been launched for some of the young British Muslims most likely to become the faith’s next generation of spiritual leaders.
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Watching Religiously
A new survey of the boom in religious broadcasting in the Middle East reveals how the small screen is becoming an increasingly important battlefield in the struggle for people’s hearts and minds.
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Islam’s besieged moderates are making themselves heard
To say that Islam and the Muslims of Europe and North America are under pressure is an understatement. In fact, the Muslims feel under siege.
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Conference shines new light on Arab Jews
The conference will examine the cultural repercussions of the absorption process of Arab Jews by the State of Israel, the impact this has had on Arab Jewish literature, and the reactions which followed in Palestinian literature.
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Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities announce new Centres for Islamic Studies
The University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh and HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Abdulaziz Alsaud (pictured), Chairman of the Kingdom Foundation have announced plans to create two new research centres for Islamic studies.
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Lost in translation?
“Modern” China is still disconnected from the West by confusing and complex cultural exchanges that prevent each from understanding the other, academics will suggest at a Cambridge University conference this week.
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Henry Stubbe and the Prophet Muhammad: A Flash from the Past
Neither an Orientalist nor a theologian, Henry Stubbe approached Islam as a historian of religion, perhaps the first in early modern Europe, arguing that the study of another religion should rely on historical evidence derived from indigenous documents, and not on foreign accounts.
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In the Eye of the Storm: Life and Writing in Contemporary Egypt
A Talk by three leading Egyptian writers: Khaled AlKhamissi, Ahmed Mourad and Ahmed Khaled Towfik.
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Europe and the Near East: the Presence and Absence of Metals
Organised by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS UK), the Democracy and Islam Programme, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and the Centre of Islamic Studies.
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The Sudan Referendum: Cause for Celebration or Concern?
Tim Niblock will seek to address some of the issues facing the recent referendum in Sudan, on the basis of a recent visit to Sudan (North and South) and of his earlier work on the country.
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Bioethics and Bioethical Issues in Muslim Societies
This talk will discuss whether Muslim societies are able to have an Islamic bioethics and even whether it is desirable.
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Invisible War – The United States and the Iraq Sanctions
Provocative and sure to stir debate, this lecture discusses a book that lays bare the damage that can be done by unchecked power in our institutions of international governance. The talk will be followed by Q & A and a reception.
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Al Azhar Programme
The Azhar-Cambridge Programme 1 March – 20 May 2010, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 7 – 25 June 2010, University of Cambridge The Cambridge Component of Study 1. Academic component – Muslims […]