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  • 28 Oct 2026
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MENACASEA 2026 Symposium Music, Dance and Spirituality in Muslim Contexts

Register for MENACASEA 2026, a hybrid symposium bringing together scholars, artists and practitioners to explore music, dance, performance and spirituality in Muslim contexts.

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  • 26 Jun 2024
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Time for Atoms

Dr David Bennett navigates cause and effect from cosmology to physicality in scientific and Islamic thought.
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  • 11 Jun 2024
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Spirituality - the Inner and Outer Landscape

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  • 29 May 2024
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Theologies of Truth and Salvation in Catholic Christianity and Ash’ari Islam

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  • 15 May 2024
  • AIHLS

From the Alamut period to the modern time: notions of knowledge and authority in the Ismaili context

Dr Saeed Najdi explores the notions of knowledge and authority in the Ismaili context from the Alamut period to today.
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  • 09 May 2024
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Between Zulaykha and Joseph

This lecture explores hitherto unpublished sources of esoteric literature surrounding the story of Zulaykha and Joseph in Surat Yusuf.
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  • 02 May 2024
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Understanding Generative AI and Prompting

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  • 01 May 2024

Book launch: “Women, Households and the Hereafter in the Qur'an”

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  • 26 Apr 2024
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Morality and Religion: Perspectives from Literature, Sociology and Philosophy

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  • 03 Apr 2024
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Historical and Contemporary Migrations of Central Asian Muslims: History, Culture and Identity

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  • 07 Mar 2024
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Book Launch: The Qur'an: A Verse Translation

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  • 08 Dec 2023
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The humanistic approach of Chingiz Aitmatov and his legacy worldwide

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  • 30 Nov 2023
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Thinking and Believing: al-Jāḥiẓ on Religious Knowledge

This talk presents an overview of the intellectual project of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 868-9) as an introduction to the worldview of the Epistemists, while touching on their rise and fall as a theological trend.
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