The Georgetown University department of Arabic and Islamic studies will inaugurate an Islamic studies minor beginning in the Fall 2025 semester, members of the department confirmed to The Hoya Feb. 13 ...

Ministry of Religious Affairs for the 2025/2026 Academic Session to study abroad and within the country were feted at a Doa ...

Following intelligence failures around October 7, 2023, the IDF is mandating that all intelligence personnel undergo training in both Arabic and Islamic cultural studies. The IDF Intelligence ...

Beginning this semester, all Yale undergraduates have the option to pursue the interdisciplinary certificate in Islamic studies. Led by Director Supriya Gandhi, assistant professor of religious ...

The interdepartmental program in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) has been discontinued and returned to a track (Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS).

This essay explains several aspects of the intellectual and political environment in which Islamic studies came of age and became a field of study in America during the last four decades. It describes ...

The Dominican friars whose library is transforming Islamic studies How a rare books collection in Cairo expanded into a center for scholarship and interfaith conversation ...

The International Balzan Foundation has awarded Michael Cook, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, the 2019 Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies. The prize comes with an award ...

The X account belonging to the Harvard Islamic Studies Program was suspended on Feb. 22 for “violating rules against platform manipulation and spam,” according to Harry Bastermajian, the ...

Amy Singer, a leading scholar on Ottoman history, has been appointed to the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.