Ilkka Lindstedt is Senior Lecturer in Islamic theology at the Faculty of Theology, Helsinki. He holds a PhD and title of docent in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Helsinki. He specializes in early Islam, Arabic historiography, and Arabic epigraphy.
A New Introduction to Islam, 4th Edition
A globally expanded, critically engaged introduction to Islam thoroughly updated Now in its Fourth Edition, A New Introduction to Islam combines...
Jonathan Berkey
I teach the full range of Middle Eastern history since the rise of Islam, and I participate in Davidson's Humanities Program. My research and writing focus on Islamic religious culture and medieval Egypt and Syria.
Shari Lowin - International Quranic Studies Association
Shari L. Lowin is Professor of Islamic and Jewish Studies in the Religious Studies Department of Stonehill College. Her research centers on the interplay between Islamic and Jewish texts in the early and early medieval Islamic periods, focusing mainly on exegetical narratives. She is the author of The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic
Shari L. Lowin
Biography My research centers on the interplay between Judaism and Islam in the early and early medieval Islamic periods, c. 800-1200 CE, focusing mainly on the development of Jewish and Muslim exegetical narratives. I am particularly interested in…
“If you want to pray to Mercury, wear the garments of a scribe:” <i>kuttāb</i> , <i>udabāʾ,</i> and readers of the <i>Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm</i> in the court of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III
This work addresses the question of the intended audience of the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, the famous Andalusi treatise on magic, better known by its Latin moniker, Picatrix. I propose that a substantial po...
Islam by Karen Armstrong: 9780812966183 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression,...
Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Troels Engberg Pedersen is a Pauline theologian, author, and professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.[1]
Zellentin Holger, Prof. Dr.
Holger Zellentin is an award-winning scholar of Late Antiquity, with a focus on Talmudic and Qur’anic studies. He combines literary, legal and historical approaches in order to understand shared and diverging patterns within Jewish, Christian and early Islamic cultural traditions.He has received funding from the European Research Council, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). He has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2014), an ERC Consolidator Grant, The Quran as a Source for Late Antiquity (2020-2026) as well as an Opus Magnum grant of the Volkswagen Foundation, Jesus and the Original Law in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2026-2028). From 2020 to 2025, he served as the chair of the board of directors of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), and from 2012-2019, he was a member of the steering committee of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS). In 2019, he joined the University of Tübingen, where he now works, climbs and cycles.
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint, an enlightened man. He is less frequently described as a Muslim.
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IIb: Cracks in the House of Islam
This is the back half of the second part of a four part series (I, IIa, IIb, III, IV) examining the historical assumptions behind the popular medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings III, made b…
The Quran
A resource for anyone looking to understand the Sacred Text of Islam; the world's leading online source of Quran translation and commentary. Explore, read and search publications in many languages.
Aile Baskısıyla Tesettüre Girmek: Niyet, İrade ve Riya - Parrhesiastes Apertus
İslam'da niyetin önemli bir yeri vardır. Bir davranışın dinî ve ahlaki değerini değerlendirirken yalnızca ne yapıldığına değil, hangi niyetle ve hangi koşullar...
Shia clergy
The Shia clergy are the religious leaders of Shia Islam, who are educated in hawzas. Shia Islam places great importance on the guidance of clergy, and each branch of Shi'ism maintains its own clerical structure. The most well-known Shia clergy belongs to the largest branch of Shia Islam, Twelver Shi'ism. As in other branches of Islam, Shia scholars are collectively known as the ulema. Individual clerics are referred to as mullah or ākhūnd, but because those terms have developed "a somewhat pejorative connotation" since at least the 1980s, the term rūḥānī has been "promoted" as an alternative, "especially by the clerical class itself".
English – Kopimistsamfundet
About this website: This website is not run by the Missionary Church of Kopimism. The domain kopimistsamfundet.se has changed owners, and the site is now maintained by an independent editorial team that describes the church and Kopimism. According to Kammarkollegiet, the church is still a registered religious community (October 2026), but we do not know how active it is today. This site cannot accept members and does not offer pastoral care or confession.
‘Islamic State’ mystery: The anti-history of a historic phenomenon
The IS phenomenon is ahistorical and raises questions about its rapid geopolitical expansion despite lack of enthusiasm for its cause among ordinary people
Journal of the Council for Research on Religion
Interdisciplinary Journal