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- Weds 18 May – our Director, Prof. Khaled Fahmy, will be at the Newnham Pavillion to discuss issues arising from his last book ‘In Quest of Justice‘
- Thurs 19 May – CIS Public Talks – Dr. Petra Sijpestein on ‘Petitioning government officials in early Islamic Egypt’
- Fri 20 May – CIS Research Associate Taushif Kara will speak at St Antony’s College Oxford – ‘Don’t call yourselves Asians! Uganda’s Indians and the problem of naming’
- Fri 20 May – CIS Research Associate Vivek Gupta co-hosts the latest DHF series talk – ‘The Vīraśaivas / Liṅgāyats of 12th century Karnataka: Conflict, Transformation, and the Genesis of a New Creed‘
- Fri-Sun 20-22 May – an international workshop in Kavala, ‘Greece on Mediterranean Embroideries’, organised by CIS Fellows Deniz Turker and Elizabeth Key Fowden includes a public keynote – Lecture by Dr. Anna Ballian “Art and material culture in Ottoman Greece” at the Imaret
- Mon-Tue 23-24 May -CIS Research Associate Emanuelle Degli Esposti hosts a workshop on ‘The Creation of Shi’a Identity: Religion, History, and Community from the 16th to the 21st century‘ at the Woolf institute in Cambridge.
CALL FOR PAPERS – MUKE 2022
We are delighted to announce that our annual ‘Muslims in the Uk and Europe’ conference will take place on 5th July 2022. For information on how to apply please click here.
Great to see that our Teaching Associate, Yomna Helmy has just had her new paper “Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘a From Islamic Modernism to Theorizing Authoritarianism” published in the special issue of the American Journal of Islam and Society. It’s available on this link: From Islamic Modernism to Theorizing Authoritarianism | American Journal of Islam and Society (ajis.org)
One of our Visiting Researchers at the Centre, Dr. Monika Lindbekk, was recently interviewed at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research investigates Egyptian courts’ adjudication of Muslim marriage and divorce law before and after the 2011 uprising. The study aims to contribute to the growing scholarly literature on the implementation of shari’a-based family codes by describing and analyzing the gender implications of religiously inspired judicial activism. A further aim is to shed light on the intersection between law and religion in this field and how legal reasoning is shaped by a modern, positivistic conception of law. At the core of this study was an analysis of judicial practices at five Cairenese family courts. To investigate how Cairenese family courts integrate various social classes into what they regard as the essence of Islam, Dr. Lindbekk drew material from five family courts in different neighborhoods in Cairo from 2007-2015.
Here is a link to the interview: Interview with Monika Lindbekk | CanCode: Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts | UiB
The keynote from our joint workshop (The study of Islam at the end of Empire ) with the Institute of Ismaili Studies (held at the Aga Khan Centre in London on 25th March) – Prof. Faisal Devji on “The Proper Name’‘ – is now available on our videos-and-podcasts page.
About the Centre
The Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge is a research and outreach centre that aims to promote a constructive and critical understanding of the role of Islam and Muslims in wider society. One important focus of our work is Muslims in the UK and Europe, although we are also interested in Islam and Muslim communities in other parts of the world. We aspire, through rigorous research and dynamic public outreach, to disseminate knowledge and facilitate informed discussion between academics, policy-makers, the media, business and the public with an interest in Islam in the contemporary world.
The Centre of Islamic Studies is part of the University of Cambridge and is supported by a generous donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies.
