This online workshop will explore how scholars in Islamic studies engage with the Digital Humanities in order to confront the question of how repositories of digital surrogates together with computational methods are changing the meaning of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. 

Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research covers the intellectual history of modern Islam, Sufism, Twelver Shiism and Muslim minorities in Europe. He is the author of Islam and the Baha’i Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-…

Professor Edward Moad (Qatar University) will speak on the theme of 'Creation' in the second in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series.

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles has been at HSBC since 2013, working as Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive, and more recently heading the Group’s global government and public affairs functions.  He also chairs HSBC Bank Oman. Earlier he spent over 30 years in the British…

Dr Aaron Spevack (Brandeis University) will speak on the theme of 'Divinity' in the first in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series.

Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Iranian History & Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2018 he was elected Hon Vice…

On 28th October the Centre hosted a well-attended Sultan Azlan Shah lecture by the Rt Hon Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, former Chief Justice of England and Wales. The session was chaired by the Centre’s Sultan Azlan Shah Fellow, the Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond. Lord Thomas took as his title ‘The…

Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE PC FBA, known as Lady Hale, served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020. She served as Deputy President of the Supreme Court from 2013 to 2017.