Sentences with phrase «islamic studies»

Saarah is a graduate of The School of Oriental & African Studies in London, UK, where she earned a BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

His interests lie in service delivery, diversity and multiculturalism, as well as Muslim and Islamic studies, terrorism and radicalisation, and Islamic psychology.

BA, History — Middle East Concentration — Minor: Middle Eastern / Islamic Studies — 2008 University of Ohio, Oxford • OH

Early Learning Childhood Training (60 Hrs) Two Years in College (English, Arts, Punjabi, Islamic Studies)-- Pakistan High School Diploma — Pakistan

She received her Bachelor of Arts in history with a minor in Islamic studies from the University of Kentucky.

Dena is a Ph.D. candidate in the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department, Culture and Representation track with a focus in Arts Politics at New York University.

Video and audio guides will be available of interviews and discussions with Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Peter J Chelkowski, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, taking the two paintings by Mousavi as a point of departure to discuss issues of history, context and politics.

The exhibition also includes video and audio interviews with Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and Peter J. Chelkowski, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, that place the two paintings by Mousavi in historical and political perspective.

Philip Kennedy, the university's Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, told me he was satisfied that there was intellectual freedom on campus, even if he took care to avoid offending the university's Emirati funders.

Khalidi holds the Sheikh Zayed Chair for Islamic Studies at American University in Beirut and his wealth of knowledge relating to the Qur «an has made him a leading scholar of this ancient and holy text.

Despite having no teaching qualifications, Umar Haque had taught an Islamic Studies class and been allowed to supervise pupils aged between 11 and 14 at the Lantern of Knowledge Islamic school.

He had taught an Islamic Studies class and supervised pupils aged between 11 and 14 at the school, despite having no teaching qualifications.

Now local and national media have published allegations from former staff over dress codes, girls being forced to sit at the back of classes and an over-emphasis on Islamic studies, to the detriment of national curriculum subjects.

Greensboro Islamic Academy says in its fundraising video that it uses the same curriculum as Guilford County schools, in addition to offering Islamic studies, Arabic language classes and Quaranic memorization.

Used in conjunction with Edexcel Islamic studies Text Book

Journal of Islamic Studies, 16:1

Outspoken journalist and author Hadani Ditmars and Chair of Huron University College's Islamic Studies Program Ingrid Mattson headline an internationally renowned collection of keynote speakers scheduled to appear at the Islam and Democracy Conference, hosted by Western University

Morrison has contributed the chapters on Islamic astronomy to the New Cambridge History of Islam and the Cambridge History of Science, and in 2009, his book Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al - Din al - Nisaburi (Routledge, 2007) was selected as one of Iran's 2009 International Books of the Year in Islamic Studies.

In September 2014, for example, Muhammad Shakil Auj, who was the dean of Islamic studies at the University of Karachi in Pakistan and was seen as an outspoken and progressive academic, «was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen... while en route to a reception that was to be given in his honor,» the report says.

Guest Speaker, Professor Abdul - Hafeez Oladosu of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan, urged Muslims to participate in process of electing leaders and advise them to get their permanent voters card.

Baraje, who spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, on the sidelines of the graduation of pupils of Baraje Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ilorin, said Adeboye's visit to Buhari also proved a political point.

The executive secretary however, said efforts were «in top gear» to print the Christian religious knowledge and Islamic studies curriculum separately to clearly define their distinct features.

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University, and is President of the European Muslim Network in Brussels.

Elisabeth Kendall, senior research fellow in Arabic and Islamic studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, recently travelled to Yemen's remote and dangerous Mahra region to carry out the first ever survey of the local people's hopes, fears and political aspirations in post-revolution Yemen.

He is also currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambrdige.

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, has written in an Al - Jazeera English Opinion piece that federalism is the only solution which would be in fitting with Libyan history.

A prospectus highlighted by the British Humanist Association said: «If and when teachers are required by the curriculum to convey teachings that are totally against Islam (Darwinism, for example), the director of Islamic Studies will brief the relevant teachers and advise accordingly.»

The Wapakoneta Middle School gives parents the option of pulling their children from an Islamic studies lesson.

He is teaches and lectures across the United States and Canada, while conducting research and writing on Islamic studies and related fields.

Ayman S. Ibrahim is postdoctoral fellow of Middle Eastern history at Haifa University and assistant professor of Islamic studies and senior fellow for the Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Acknowledging those differences is key, wrote David Cashin, an intercultural and Islamic studies professor at Columbia International University.

Paul Martindale, a professor of Islamic studies and cross-cultural ministry at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary, agreed.

Different understandings of God might be compared to different understandings of Jesus, wrote Mark Hausfeld, president of Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and professor of urban and Islamic studies.

Those who want to penetrate deeper into the study of Islam go to a pesantren, a residential school for Islamic studies.

So seriously is it believed at McGill University that a Western student is not being offered adequate facilities for the study of Islam and for a degree in Islamics unless he has Muslims available from whom to learn, that it is formal policy at its Institute of Islamic Studies that half of the teachers and half of the students be Muslims.

Note C. A. O. van Nienwenhuijze, «Frictions between Presuppositions in Cross-cultural Encounters: The Case of Islamology» («Institute of Social Studies Publications on Social Change,» No. 12 [The Hague, 1958]-RRB-, pp. 66 - 67: «We must persistently remain aware of our own presuppositions in our Islamic studies.

Ayman S. Ibrahim is postdoctoral candidate in Middle Eastern history at Haifa University and assistant professor of Islamic studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

The following extracts from the regulations for the degree of Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at McGill University illustrate one attempt to formalize this kind of consideration.

Speaking of what the Institute of Islamic Studies here regards as the inadequacy of a doctorate's only applying the form of the latter to the substance of the former, the memorandum goes on to say: «Its ambition would be to encompass something of the substance of both Western and Islamic traditions, and also something of the form of both....

Editor's note: Akbar Ahmed is professor and Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington and the former high commissioner from Pakistan to the United Kingdom.

We succeeded in getting two new posts in Islamic studies, as well as a new post in New Testament and a new endowed post in theology and natural science.

Gabriel Said Reynolds is a professor of Islamic studies and theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Anthony McRoy, author of From Rushdie to 7/7: The Radicalisation of Islam in Britain (Social Affairs Unit), who lectures in Islamic Studies for Wales Evangelical School of Theology, spent considerable time at the Olympic venues in discussion with Muslim evangelists.

David A. Kerr is professor of Islamic studies and director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian - Muslin Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.

Ayman S. Ibrahim, PhD, is Bill and Connie Jenkins Chair and Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dawub Tauhidi, founder and principal of the Crescent Academy International in a suburb of Detroit, is a Euro - American convert to Islam with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of Michigan.

Tauhidi responded, «We have a hard enough time getting a good curriculum in Islamic studies together.

«We don't know that (bin Laden) was ever exposed to orthodox Islamic teachings,» said Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of religion and Islamic studies at Duke University.

John Azumah is a leader in the area of Islamic studies and will briefly explain Islam.

In a speech to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), he said: «There has perhaps never been a greater need for cultural connectivity.