The Battle for the Soul of Islam
James M Dorsey
21 May 2025 14.00 BST
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Islam in the Modern World
Trevor Mostyn is a Lecturer in Middle East History at the University of Oxford teaching a course on “Islam in the Modern World” Writing a book on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I introduced myself to the town councillors of Fujairah in my best classical Arabic. Delighted, they promptly closed down their offices and produced…
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The Persistent Challenge of ‘Islamic Exceptionalism’
Hadi Enayat is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at the Aga Khan University in London. He is a political sociologist specialising in the Middle East with a particular focus on religion, law, political theology and intellectual history. The notion of national or civilisational ‘exceptionalism’ was first used in…
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Muslim Futurisms: Science and the Imagination Across Asia
Professor Jörg Matthias Determann, 3 March 2021, 14.00
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Political Quietism in Islamic Societies: a Neglected Tradition
Dr Saud Al-Sarhan delivers the Hugh Leach Memorial Lecture for 2020, 16 December, 14:00 Dr. Saud Al-Sarhan has been the Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies since 2016. In 2019 he published Political Quietism in Islam: Sunni and Shi’i Practice and Thought. He is a member of the Board of…
