When Aminah McCloud plies the halls of DePaul University’s religious studies department, her curly gray hair hidden beneath a colorful cap, there are no clues the professor is a Muslim. So students ...
The University of Minnesota has taken the first steps to roll out an Islamic studies program following pressure from some members of the Religious Studies (RELS) program. Currently, students can ...
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 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 ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Political allies are condemning a few of President Trump's latest tweets. They were re-tweets of anti-Muslim videos posted by the leader of a far-right extremist party in Britain.
The State Board of Education approved an early draft of social studies changes, setting up a vote in June that will determine ...
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 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 ...