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 ...

Nowhere in the Islamic tradition is knowledge understood as a human production. In fact, we can say quite the opposite. That ...

In a conversation with Middle East expert and Israel Today correspondent Edy Cohen, Dr. Muhammad Rahouma, now a devout ...

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 ...

Islamic studies are a wide umbrella term covering a number of areas of interest. It broadly refers to the study of Islam and its philosophy as well as the various aspects of academic knowledge that ...

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 ...

For many decades, social scientists of every disciplinary stripe have placed themselves in the forefront of the battle against bigotry. On the basis of that record, one might expect to find ...

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 program’s ...