As a Jewish woman studying Islam and Arabic, I inevitably get one of two reactions from my community when I reveal my academic interests: The majority of people are kind and interested, and make it ...

Richard Hoffman, chairman of the history department at San Francisco State University, has been asking for years for money to hire an Islamic studies professor. Before Sept. 11, it was an uphill ...

The past decade has seen Islamic studies take on a new prominence in academic circles. Governments are demanding increasing amounts of research to inform foreign policy towards the Islamic world and ...

The world’s fifth wealthiest man, Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, is donating $20 million to Harvard to expand Islamic studies, the University announced yesterday. The ...

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).

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 first specialized academy of higher learning in Uzbekistan devoted exclusively to Islamic studies has been registered by the Justice Ministry in seemingly more evidence of a growing embrace of ...

Last year when the Federal government announced $8-million in funding for a new Islamic Study Centre based at Melbourne University, Parliamentary Secretary, Andrew Robb predicted the centre would ...