Publications
The Centre of Islamic Studies is committed to informing public debates. As part of this commitment, the Centre publishes plain-English reports arising from some of our major activities and events. These are free and available to download below.
- CIS Annual report
- CIS Thematic Reports
- Staff & Fellows Academic Publications
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Annual Report 2021-22
The 2021/22 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2020-21
The 2020/21 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2019-20
The 2019/20 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2018/19
The 2018/19 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2017/18
The 2017/18 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2016/17
The 2016/17 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2015/16
The 2015/16 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting […]
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Annual Report 2014/15
The 2014/15 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting academics and partner organisations activities.
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Annual Report 2013/14
The 2013/14 annual report is a comprehensive report on the Centre of Islamic Studies’ activities throughout the preceding year.
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Annual Report 2012/13
2012/2013 was a packed year for the Centre with the publication of our major research project on conversion to Islam, the development of new ties to universities around the world and a full programme of seminars and outreach activities. The annual report provides information about the Centre’s activites throughout the year.
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Annual Report 2011/12
The year 2011/12 saw the Centre develop and deepen its key initiatives. The 2011/12 annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting academics and partner organisations activities.
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Annual Report 2010/11
The annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting academics and partner organisations activities.
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Annual Report 2009/10
The 2009/10 annual report provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting academics and partner organisations activities.
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Annual Report 2008/9
The annual report 2008/9 provides information about the Centre’s research, events, visiting academics and partner organisations activities.
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Muslims in the UK and Europe VI
Nov 2022 This volume presents the papers given at the sixth postgraduate conference, “Muslims in the UK and Europe” organised by the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of […]
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Muslims in the UK and Europe V
(2019)
The papers in this volume showcase some emerging postgraduate work on Muslims in the UK and Europe. They are expanded versions of papers presented at the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies’ fifth Annual Postgraduate Symposium held on 6-7 June 2019. -
Muslims in the UK and Europe IV
(2018)
The papers in this volume showcase some emerging postgraduate work on Muslims in the UK and Europe. They are expanded versions of papers presented at the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies’ fourth Annual Postgraduate Symposium held on 12-13 May 2017. -
Unpacking Radicalisation in a Prison Environment
(2017)
Transcript of a meeting held in Cambridge in January 2017 that brought together prison officers, police officers, academics and civil servants, to consider the challenges involved in managing issues around extremism in prisons. -
Muslims in the UK and Europe III
(2017)
The papers in this volume provide a snapshot of emerging postgraduate work on Muslims in the UK and Europe. They are expanded versions of papers presented at the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies’ third Annual Postgraduate Symposium held on 13-15 May 2016. -
Learning Talk: Ethics and Sociality in a Muslims Convert Support Network
(2016)
Philip Rushworth completed his Master’s degree at the University of Cambridge in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in 2015 with the support of a Centre of Islamic Studies Studentship. His dissertation, published by the Centre, is about the ethics of sociality for converts to Islam in a support network in Manchester, UK. As a space for learning Islam and a site that was often described as a refuge from the challenges and complications of everyday life, the convert support environment was a space where converts participated in the transaction and exchange of pious sociality. -
Muslims in the UK and Europe II
(2016)
The papers in this volume provide a snapshot of emerging postgraduate work on Muslims in the UK and Europe. They are expanded versions of papers presented at the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies’ second Annual Postgraduate Symposium held on 29-31 May 2015. -
Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
(2016)
This report introduces a wave of recent British research studies that have examined anti-Muslim hate crime in the UK. These studies share a common characteristic in that they have each explored issues around anti-Muslim hate, discrimination and prejudice using an evidence-based approach to generate their findings and support their conclusions. -
Narratives of Conversion to Islam in Britain: Male Perspectives
(2016)
Based on an extended set of conversations held at the University of Cambridge in 2014/5 with male converts to Islam, this project provides a platform for male converts from diverse socio-economic, geographical and denominational backgrounds to articulate their experiences and perspectives on matters they have identified as significant. -
Muslims in the UK and Europe I
(2014)
This edited collection presents a range of topical essays on Islam and Muslims in Europe. The product of the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies’ first graduate symposium, it tackles issues ranging from burial rituals to the halal economy, minority fiqh to hip-hop, psychological therapy to hate crime. -
Narratives of Conversion to Islam in Britain: Female Perspectives
(2013)
This report is exclusively about female converts to Islam in Britain. Female conversion to Islam in particular challenges the binaries of tradition versus modernity and faith versus secularism, by combining in the person of the convert – and her body – both the insider and outsider, and doing so in a way that has the capacity to dilute the rough and ready distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’. -
Contextualising Islam in Britian – Executive Summary
(2012)
In this first report, the project participants set out to answer a central question: what does it mean to live faithfully as a Muslim in Britain today? They did so by considering Muslim views in relation to secularism and the secular nation state, citizenship as a form of political and civic engagement, pluralism, human rights and the Islamic Sharia as a path of moral living. -
Contextualising Islam in Britian – Phase II
(2012)
The Centre of Islamic Studies seeks to develop a constructive and critical understanding of Islam in the modern world. -
Building a Shared Future: Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere
(2012)
Controversies have erupted over the wearing of the hijab, the construction and location of mosques, halal food in schools and public displays of religious belonging. These rows have provoked deep questions about balancing individual and collective religious rights in increasingly secular societies. -
Building a Shared Future: Islam, Knowledge and Innovation
(2012)
Despite the pioneering breakthroughs of Muslim and Arab scholars in these fields, the history of ‘Western’ achievements is often written with hardly any reference to the influence of other societies. The working group focusing on Islam, knowledge and innovation discussed these incomplete views of history whilst attempting to answer how such reductionist misconceptions could be addressed. -
Building a Shared Future: Citizenship and Identity
(2012)
Whether provoked by practices of religious observance in France or proposals to require citizenship tests for Arabs in Israel, questions of citizenship and identity have very real implications for twenty-first-century Muslims. -
Building a Shared Future: The Power of Words and Images
(2012)
Report from a conference in which one of the key objectives was to help fill the gap between academic expertise and public knowledge of cross-cultural relations involving Muslims. -
Reforms in Islamic Education
(2011)
What is Islamic education? What is the reality behind the heated debates over the role of “madrasas”? Does Islamic education lead to greater segregation, or does it further the cause of genuine pluralism? This is the report of a conference which tackles these fundamental questions. -
Language, Conflict and Security
(2010)
Based on an international conference held at the University of Cambridge, this report highlights the manifold ways in which language becomes involved in the specific processes of conflict and management of security interests. -
Certification of Halal Meat in the UK
(2010)
Through interviews with the leading figures of the Halal Food Authority and Halal Monitoring Committee, as well as the use of other sources, this report explains and analyses the work and differing perspectives of these two main certification bodies. -
Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
(2010)
Report offering a synopsis of a conference held at Cambridge University focusing on the discourses of a selection of Islamic, Christian and Jewish religious broadcasting channels, as well as the wider factors and structures that sustain them. -
Contextualising Islam in Britain: Exploratory Perspectives
(2009)
The overall vision of this project is to create an opportunity for different parts of the British Muslim community to come together to discuss what it means to live faithfully as a Muslim in modern Britain.
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Elderly and End of Life Care
Dr Mehrunisha Suleman worked with colleagues from the Muslim Council of Britain to produce this comprehensive report into ‘Elderly and End of Life Care for Muslims in the UK’. Download […]
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Ethical and Racial Studies published by Dr Julian Hargreaves
(2016)
This article presents findings from a survey of British Muslims communities. It employs the research frameworks of risk, hate crime and grounded theory to examine ‘everyday’ experiences of victimization and discrimination and the perceived complicity of the British media in creating adverse social conditions for Muslim communities. -
The Conversation: Why both sides are wrong in the counter-extremism debate by Julian Hargreaves
(2016)
The Centre of Islamic Studies Research Associate Julian Hargreaves comments how the counter-extremism debates has reached an impasse in The Conversation. -
British Journal of Criminology paper published by Julian Hargreaves
(2014)
Julian Hargreaves is published in The British Journal of Criminology with a paper entitled ‘Half a Story? Missing Perspectives in the Criminological Accounts of British Muslim Communities, Crime and the Criminal Justice System’. -
Journal of North African Studies paper published by Samar Samir Mezghanni
(2014)
Samar Samir Mezghanni has published a paper entitled ‘Reinforcing Citizenship through Civil Society and Media Partnerships: The Case of Community Radios’ in the Journal of North African Studies’ in the Journal of North African Studies.