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Life at IMES ( Islamic – Latest News, Events, Announcements from IMES Staff, Students & Alumni

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The early Islamic period remains one of the most debated and fascinating chapters in Islamic history. ... 🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Andreas Görke. Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Project – Welcome to the Caliphal Finances Blog

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The Abbasids were the second longest ruling dynasty in Islamic history (750-1258). ... Work Package 6 Writing a history of Abbasid fiscal practice in Islamic Late Antiquity.

Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Islamic Law and surviving the crisis of Covid-19 – Teaching Matters

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/spotlight-on-remote-teaching-the-sharia-and-surviving-the-crisis-of-covid-19/

Spotlight on Remote Teaching: Islamic Law and surviving the crisis of Covid-19. ... With training in Islamic theology and law, he served as Imam of Edinburgh Central Mosque.

DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE – Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments

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Digital Islam across Europe’. Welcome to the official website of the multi-country research project ‘Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments’. ... This ambitious project explores the social

Arabic Beginnings: For God and Empire – The Middle East at Edinburgh

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Watt remained the dominant figure in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Edinburgh until the end of the 1970s when he retired. ... Arabic and Islamic Studies that would help secure the future of the field at the University.

Blog Contributors – Edinburgh Gifford Lectures Blog

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Ach Fatayillah Mursyidi is a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. ... Michael Harris is a 1st year PhD student in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at New College,

Tuesday, 23 March 2021 – Architectural Conservation Masterclasses

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Installing Islamic Art: Interior Space and Temporal Imagination. With the establishment of new cultural institutions in the Middle East  and Africa, major Islamic art collections have relocated across the  globe during ... Yuka Kadoi. YukaKadoi, PhD

Christopher Wilton-Steer – Alumni profiles

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/alumni-profiles/2025/08/27/christopher-wilton-steer/

At Edinburgh, as part of my Art History degree, I studied Islamic Art for one year. ... He’d travelled extensively across the Islamic world and written dozens of books on Islamic art and architecture.

Symposium 1 Report: Textual and Material Sources and their Performativity (Reykholt, Iceland, 29-31 May 2023) – A Viking in the Sun

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hardrada/2023/07/09/first-symposium/

Marek Jankowiak (University of Oxford): A Viking and the Crescent: Harald Hardrada’s Islamic encounters. ... 15.30–16:00: Coffee Break. 16.00-17.00: MATERIAL CULTURE AND LEGACIES 1. Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh): On Visualising

Elite and Mass Political Behaviour – This blog presents posts that tackle practical problems relating to political behaviour using knowledge from academic research. It showcases the best blog posts written by students on the honours-level Elite and Mass

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With 50 people being killed between 2014 and 2018 due to extremist incel violence, comparable to the approximately 72 deaths resulting from Islamic extremists, many argue […]. Joe Greenwood-Hau 19 June