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Events

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A selection of past Events

In the Presence of the Divine: An Ethnographic Study of Praying among Muslim Women in Iran

Professor Niloofar Haeri (Johns Hopkins University)

Afghan Merchants’ Trading Worlds across Modern Frontiers

Professor Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)

Alliance of Civilisations

Alliance of Civilizations

HE Mr Nassir Abdul Aziz Al-Nasser (UN Secretary General’s High Representative for the AOC)

On Monday 9 June the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies hosted a visit by HE Mr Nassir Abdul Aziz Al-Nasser, the United Nations Secretary General’s High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations (AOC). This was his second visit to speak at the Centre as he lectured in Oxford at the Centre’s…

Jan Eliasson

The New Global Landscape: The UN and the Muslim World Mr Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations

The Centre hosted a lecture on Wednesday 4 June by the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Jan Eliasson. Mr Eliasson also served, in the course of a distinguished diplomatic career, as Swedish Ambassador in Washington and later to the UN, as President of the UN General Assembly and…

Unlocking the World of Muslim Brothers in Egypt

Dr Hazem Kandil (University of Cambridge)

The Elders

Conflict, Dialogue and Peace : Speaking Truth to Power

Panel Discussion with The Elders

On Thursday 29th May 2014 the Centre hosted a Panel Discussion with The Elders on ‘Conflict, Dialogue and Peace: Speaking Truth to Power’ at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. The Panel Discussion (moderated by the Centre’s Director) formed part of a series of events and lectures inaugurated by the…

Representations of Islam and the Issue of Free Speech: A Case of the UK and French Press

Dr Milly Williamson (Brunel University)

The Other Side of the Gift: Soliciting Zakat in Indonesia

Dr Kostas Retsikas (SOAS)