An international online conference on Russia and the Muslim world: Through the Lens of Shared Islamic Identities took place on Thursday 18 March and Friday 19 March 2021

Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. 950) is one the most celebrated philosophers in world history. Hailing from Central Asia, he lived and travelled throughout the Middle East and North Africa, leaving virtually no field of knowledge in his day untouched.

An international conference on 'Islamic Studies Today' celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of the Journal of Islamic Studies. Click for details.

In May 2018 the Centre hosted a two-day forum, in partnership with the Muslim World League (Makkah), exploring the value of peace in Abrahamic faiths, as part of its commitment to improve understanding between different cultural, religious, and intellectual traditions.

The 8th Waqf Jurisprudence Issues Forum was held at the Centre on 27-29 April 2017. Participants were addressed in the opening session by the General Secretary of the Awqaf Public Foundation HE Mohamed Abdullah al-Jalahmeh, the President of the Forum's Scientific Committee Dr Khaled Al Mathkour,…

The Centre hosted a two-day international conference in Oxford on the political economy of the private sector in the Middle East on 5-6 June 2015. Jointly organised with the Cairo-based Economic Research Forum (ERF), the conference attracted leading scholars in the field from the Middle East,…

Under a partnership with ISESCO, the Centre convened a roundtable discussion in Oxford on Teaching Islam: Curricula and Resources for RE in British Schools, on 20 May 2015. The broad aim of the Roundtable was to inform dialogue on strategies to encourage social cohesion by looking at different ways…

From 31 October – 2 November the Centre hosted an international colloquium on ‘Security in the Arabian Gulf ’, the second in an annual series organised in cooperation with the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Conference participants and invited guests gathered in London on 30…