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Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen is Curator responsible for the Arab World collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is a specialist in the Islamic Mediterranean, especially al-Andalus and the Maghrib, during the…

New Open Access resource available online

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

https://brill.com/view/db/lhom

 

 

The lecture places the portraits in historical and art historical context, and show how the evolution of Mughal painting produces greater accuracy in the depiction of material culture. The portraits then become an important source of information…

The latest issue of the Journal of Islamic Studies contains articles by Essam Ayyad, on An Historiographical Analysis of the Arabic Accounts of Early Mosques: With Special Reference to Those at Madina, Baṣra and Kūfa, Liana Saif, on Ikhwān…

 

The lecture examined selected treasures from the Society’s collections to make some suggestions about the approach of British Orientalists to the study of religion; how this related to eighteenth-century Enlightenment…

September’s issue of the Journal of Islamic Studies contains articles by Ahmed Abdel Meguid, on Al-Kindī’s Argument for the Finitude of Time in His Critique of Aristotle’s Theory of the Eternity of the World in the Treatise…

Celebrating the Merdeka Scholarships: In July 2018 the Centre and Yayasan Khazanah celebrated the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Khazanah-OCIS Scholarship Programme.

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…