Center for Islamic Studies extends a warm welcome to all new and returning students, instructors, staff and visiting scholars for the academic year 2019-2020!
We are honored to welcome Dr. Eva Kepplinger who is Research Assistant and Chair for Islamic Religious Studies with a Systematics Focus at Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. We are delighted that Carol Bier, Historian of Islamic Art, will continue her work with the CIS/GTU as Research Scholar. Both our scholars will present their research at a symposium on Thursday, Sept 19 at the GTU Library Board Room, 12-2pm. For more info: gtu.edu/cis or contact: mdhala@gtu.edu
Congratulations to Carol Bier who was invited to Uzbekistan as one of the world's leading global scholars on Islamic art, textiles and geometry. From August 22-27 she participated in the conference, "Preservation of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage," and also attended Heritage Week, "Uzbekistan - The Intersection of Great Roads and Civilizations: Empire, Religion, Culture.
Congratulations to alum, Sarah Mohr, who will be presenting her recently published work on Liberation Psychology from an Islamic Perspective at the 7th Biennial Cambridge International Conference on Mental Health, and also at the Global Muslim Mental Health Conference, in Cambridge, UK, September 5-6.
Congratulations to Huzaifa Shahbaz for his work at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC where he spent the summer researching and writing on the US military budget. His works analyzed discretionary spending within the Pentagon budget. He also has a published op-ed in Foreign Policy in Focus Magazine.
CIS/CJS joint Madrasa-Midrasha Program will be holding an event at Stanford University on Sept 26 at 7:30pm, on Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on HospitalBased Spiritual Care. Details forthcoming at gtu.edu.