Past events

When	Description	Location
23 March 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Mehdi Aminrazavi	Online Only
16 March 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Matthew L. Keegan	Online Only
9 March 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Professor Samuel Hodgkin	Online Only
2 March 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Yuka Kadoi	Online Only
23 February 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Michael Cook	Online Only
18 February 2026	Visiting Speaker Event with Professor Rosabel Ansari	IAIS Building/LT2
11 February 2026	Visiting Speaker Event with Professor Andrew Marsham	IAIS Building/LT2
2 February 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: James E. Montgomery	Online Only
19 January 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Gabriel Said Reynolds	Online Only
8 December 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Alireza Doostdar	Online Only
1 December 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Pranav Prakash	Online Only
24 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Safa Mahmoudian	Online Only
17 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Edith Szanto	Online Only
10 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Godefroid de Callatay and Laura Tribuzio	Online Only
3 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Michael Shenkar	Online Only
27 October 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Badr Tachouche	Online
13 October 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Said Reza Huseini	Online Only
6 October 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: John L Esposito	Online
2 June 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Abdel-Meguid	online
20 May 2025	CSI / DAME Workshop : The Secret Leaven of Sufism: Locating New Approaches to the Study of Islamic Visual Cultures	IAIS Building/LT1
19 May 2025	CSI Monday Majlis :Youssef Belal	online
12 May 2025	CSI Monday Majlis : Cole Bunzel	online
5 May 2025	CSI Monday Majlis : Amir Saemi	online
24 April 2025	Postponed: CSI Workshop: Visual and Material Culture in the Muslim World (see details for workshop May 20th)	Digital Humanities Laboratory
23 April 2025	A Language of One's own: Literary Arabic, the Palestinians and Israel	Online
24 March 2025	CSI Monday Majlis : Dustin Klinger	online
17 March 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Kecia Ali	online
13 March 2025	POSTPONED: CSI: Visiting Speaker Seminar	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
10 March 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Sari Hanafi	online
3 March 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Cyrus Zargar	online
24 February 2025	CSI Monday Majlis:Vernon Schubel	online
17 February 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Saadia Yacoob	online
10 February 2025	CSI Monday Majlis : Tehseen Thaver	online
27 January 2025	CSI Monday Majilis: Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism, and the New Age	online
9 December 2024	CSI Monday Majlis : APPROACHING TALIBAN IDEOLOGY THROUGH LAYERS OF TIME	online
2 December 2024	CSI Monday Majlis : WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOD芒鈧劉S LAW GIVES YOU UNJUST RESULTS?	online
25 November 2024	CSI Monday Majlis : A SOMALI VILLAGE IN COLONIAL BRADFORD (1904) - A (COUNTER) ARCHIVAL STUDY	online
18 November 2024	CSI Monday Majlis: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM PAPYRI FROM KHIRBET MIRD, PALESTINE: AN ARCHIVE FROM THE 7TH AND 8TH CENTURIES	online
11 November 2024	CSI Monday Majlis : DEBATING VEGANISM IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD: A DEBATE BETWEEN AL-MA脢驴ARR脛陋 AND THE SHIITE MISSIONARY AL-MU脢戮AYYAD F脛陋 L-D脛陋N AL-SH脛陋R脛鈧琙脛陋	online
28 October 2024	CSI Monday Majlis: WHAT IS SHI芒鈧劉ISM? FACTIONALISM AND UNIVERSALISM IN ISLAMIC STUDIES	online
14 October 2024	CSI Monday Majlis: Women fighting the enemies of Muhammad and converting to Islam before their husbands: The Abbasid-era stories of Umm Fad脤拢l and Umm Hak脛芦m	online
7 October 2024	CSI Monday Majlis: On Animals, Stones, and Alphabets: The 14th-Century Egyptian Alchemist Aydamir al-Jildak脛芦 and His Natural Encyclopaedia	Online
3 June 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	and Online
27 May 2024	Monday Majlis: The Qur脢戮脛聛n and Its Masculine God: A Historical Feminist Analysis	Online
20 May 2024	Monday Majlis: The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam	Online
15 May 2024	CSI Monday Majilis (This week it is on a Wednesday) : Zahra Ali Syed	online
6 May 2024	CSI Monday Majlis: Arabic Christian Notions of Human and Divine Free Will: In 脢驴Amm脛聛r al-Ba谩鹿拢r脛芦芒鈧劉s Kit脛聛b al-mas脛聛脢戮il wa-l-ajwiba	online
29 April 2024	CSI Monday Majilis: Text and Stone: A history of Christian Symbols in Mamluk Architecture in Cairo (1250-1517AD)	online
18 March 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	online
11 March 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	online
6 March 2024	CSI Special Event	IAIS Building/LT1
4 March 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	online
26 February 2024	Monday Majlis: The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in 脢驴A谩鹿颅谩鹿颅脛聛r芒鈧劉s Man谩鹿颅eq al-谩鹿颅ayr	Online
19 February 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	IAIS Building/LT1
12 February 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	online
5 February 2024	CSI Monday Majilis	online
29 January 2024	Monday Majalis: All under the Heavens芒鈧� and the Heavens, Too: Universal History and Astrology in Mongol Iran	Online
22 January 2024	Monday Majlis: Sufi Movements and Contestable Periodization Schemes
15 January 2024	CSI Monday Majlis	tba
11 December 2023	CSI Monday Majlis	Online
4 December 2023	CSI Monday Majlis	Online
27 November 2023	CSI Monday Majlis	Online
20 November 2023	CSI Monday Majlis	Online
13 November 2023	CSI Monday Majlis:	Online
30 October 2023	CSI Monday Majilis	online
16 October 2023	CSI Monday Majilis	online
11 October 2023	Hafsa Kanjwal, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation. Visiting Speaker Lecture
9 October 2023	CSI Monday Majilis	online
4 October 2023	Visiting Speaker lecture	online
2 October 2023	Online Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam	Online
12 June 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Nebil Husayn	IAIS Building/LT1
5 June 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis : Hassan Abbas	Online
29 May 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Helen Pfeifer	Online
22 May 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Steven Judd	Online
15 May 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Han Hsien Liew	Online
8 May 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Ay脜鸥e Baltac脛卤o脛鸥lu-Brammer	Online
27 March 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis:Hayrettin Yucesoy	Online
20 March 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dunja Ra脜隆i脛鈥�	Online
13 March 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Elizabeth Urban	Online
6 March 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dwight Reynolds	Online
1 March 2023	Nezami Ganjavi's "The Seven Portraits"	IAIS Building/LT1
27 February 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Theodore Samuel Beers	Online
20 February 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Johannes Stephan	Online
13 February 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Beatrice Gruendler	Online
6 February 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Livnat Holtzman	Online
30 January 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Massimo Ramaioli	Online
23 January 2023	Accusations of Magic against the Religious 芒鈧淥thers芒鈧劉 in the Late Antique Persianate World	IAIS Building/LT1
16 January 2023	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Hugh Kennedy	Online
14 December 2022	CSI Research Seminar	IAIS Building/Seminar 1
14 December 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
12 December 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Kamran Talattof	Online
5 December 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Martin Nixon	Online
21 November 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Aurora Magliozzi	Online
16 November 2022	Wednesday CSI seminar : Mustafa Baig	IAIS Building/LT2
14 November 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Letizia Osti	Online
9 November 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
7 November 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Nikola Pantic	Online
31 October 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Alexandra Hoffmann	Online
24 October 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Isabel Toral and Jens Scheiner	Online
19 October 2022	Decolonising Islamic Studies	IAIS Building/LT1
17 October 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Rahim Gholami	Online
12 October 2022	Wednesday CSI seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
10 October 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Mehdy Shaddel	Online
5 October 2022	Wednesday CSI Seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
13 June 2022		Online
8 June 2022	CSI Wednesday Seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
6 June 2022		Online
1 June 2022	CSI Wednesday Seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
30 May 2022		Online
25 May 2022	CSI Wednesday Seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
23 May 2022		Online
18 May 2022	Wednesday CSI Seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
16 May 2022		Online
11 May 2022	Wednesday CSI seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
9 May 2022		Online
8 April 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
1 April 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
30 March 2022	CSI Research Afternoon	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
29 March 2022	Visiting Speaker: Professor G. Rex Smith (University of Leeds)	IAIS Building/LT1
28 March 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University Doha)	Online
21 March 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Junaid Quadri (University of Illinois at Chicago)	Online
18 March 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
16 March 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
14 March 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Drs Kenny Schmitt (Al-Quds Bard College) and Mohammad Ghosheh (Amman)	Online
9 March 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
7 March 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Drs Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)	Online
4 March 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
2 March 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
28 February 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield)	Online
21 February 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Samer El-Karashawy (Cairo)	Online
18 February 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
16 February 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
11 February 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
9 February 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
7 February 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University)	Online
4 February 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
2 February 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT1
31 January 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Christian Lange (Utrecht)	Online
26 January 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
24 January 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma)	Online
21 January 2022	Exeter-Habib Seminars: Decolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
19 January 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
17 January 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Michael Cooperson (UCLA)	Online
12 January 2022	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar:	IAIS Building/LT2
10 January 2022	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Miriam K脙录nker (M脙录nster Institute for Advanced Study)	Online
10 December 2021	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
8 December 2021	CSI Research Afternoon :Digital Islamic Studies: Projects and Prospects	IAIS Building/LT1
1 December 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
29 November 2021		Online
29 - 30 November 2021	Workshop: Medicine, Magic and Healing	Hotel Du Vin Exeter
26 November 2021	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
24 November 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
22 November 2021		Online
15 November 2021		Online
12 November 2021	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
11 November 2021	Lecture: Professor Yossef Rapoport (QMU),	IAIS Building/LT2
10 November 2021	Lecture: 芒鈧揑slamic Ethics of Pandemics: From the Theological Discussions on Contagion to the Bioethical Deliberation on Vaccination芒鈧�	IAIS Building/LT1
10 November 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/Seminar 2
8 November 2021		Online
3 November 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
1 November 2021		Online
29 October 2021	Exeter-Habib Conversations: Conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualities	Online
27 October 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
25 October 2021		Online
20 October 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
18 October 2021		Online
15 October 2021	Exeter-Habib Conversations: conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualties	Online
13 October 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT1
8 October 2021	Exeter-Habib Conversations: conversations in Postcolonial Islamic Spiritualties	Online
6 October 2021	Inaugural Lecture: Professor Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University)	IAIS Building/LT2
6 October 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT2
4 October 2021		Online
30 June 2021	CSI Research Afternoon	IAIS Building/LT1
24 June 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dard Neuman (UC Santa Cruz)	Online
16 June 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
15 June 2021	A talk By Dr Mohammed Hashim Ghosheh (recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 2020)	Online
10 June 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Margrit Pernau (Max Planck, Berlin)	Online
2 June 2021	Wednesday CSI seminar	Online
27 May 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Akbar Hyder (Texas)	Online
26 May 2021	CSI Evening Lecture	Online
20 May 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Nur Sobers-Khan (MIT)	Online
19 May 2021	Arabic Text Seminar	Online
12 May 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
6 May 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Sarah Waheed (Davidson College)	Online
5 May 2021	Arabic Text Seminar	Online
29 April 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Anand Vivek Taneja (Vanderbilt)	Online
28 April 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
8 April 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Najeeb Jan (Habib)	Online
31 March 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg)	Online
25 March 2021	MOVED TO 31st MARCH: Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism:	Online
24 March 2021	CSI Research Afternoon	Online
17 March 2021	Arabic Text Seminar	Online
12 March 2021	Exeter - Tokyo University Joint workshop	Online
11 March 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ali Altaf Mian (Florida)	Online
11 March 2021	Exeter - Tokyo University Joint workshop	Online
9 March 2021	Exeter - Tokyo University Joint workshop 9th 11th and 12th March	Online
3 March 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
25 February 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Furst (Vermont)	Online
24 February 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
17 February 2021	Arabic Text Seminar POSTPONED	Online
11 February 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Mana Kia (Columbia)	Online
10 February 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
3 February 2021	CSI Arabic Text Seminar	Online
28 January 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Farah Mihlar (Exeter):	Online
27 January 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
20 January 2021	CSI Arabic Text Seminar	Online
14 January 2021	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr. Samia Khatun (SOAS, London)	Online
13 January 2021	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Online
10 December 2020	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Layli Uddin (kings College, London)	Online
9 December 2020	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
2 December 2020	CSI Research Afternoon : Islam In China	Online
26 November 2020	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ebrahim Moosa (Notre Dame)	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
25 November 2020	Arabic text reading convened by Professor Robert Gleave	IAIS Building/LT1 / Online
18 November 2020	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT1 / Online
12 November 2020	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: professor SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall)	Online
11 November 2020	Arabic text reading convened by Professor Robert Gleave	IAIS Building/LT1 / Online
4 November 2020	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT1 / Online
29 October 2020	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Norman Baig	Online
21 October 2020	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar	IAIS Building/LT1 / Online
15 October 2020	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Bowdoin College)	Online
14 October 2020	Arabic text reading convened by Professor Robert Gleave	IAIS Building/LT1 / Online
12 October 2020	Exeter-Tehran-Conversations in Philosophy: Sajjad Rizvi and Mohsen Feyzbakhsh (Tehran): What is Philosophy in Iran	Online
9 October 2020	Exeter-Tehran-Conversations: Professor Muhammad Legenhausen (Imam Khomeini Institute on Ethics	Online
7 October 2020	Wednesday CSI Lunchtime Seminar
5 October 2020	Exeter-Tehran-Conversations: Professor Zahra Moballegh (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies): on Feminist Philosophy	Online
1 October 2020	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism	Online
29 January 2020	From the Maghrib to the Mashriq through al-Andalus and Norman Sicily. The sacrifice of she-camels among the Fatimids and Safavids	IAIS Building/LT1
11 December 2019	CSI Research Afternoon: Lived Islam	IAIS Building/LT2
27 September 2019	Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion	RAMM, Exeter Library, Exeter Phoenix
11 - 12 July 2019	Professor Rob Gleave (Exeter) and Dr Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster) present "Menstruation and Menopause in Islamic Legal Cultures"	IAIS Building/LT1
13 May 2019	Professor Richard Foltz (Concordia University) presents "What is the meaning of 'Tajik'?"	IAIS Building/LT1
20 - 21 March 2019	Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford) presents the talk "Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World"	IAIS Building/LT1&2
19 March 2019	Dr Imam Mamadou Bocoum and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on "Finding the Hope"	IAIS Building/LT2
18 March 2019	Making Sense of the Qur芒鈧劉an in Translation	Northcote House Council Chamber
6 - 7 March 2019	Professor Adam Sabra (University of California at Santa Barbara) presents the talk "Household and State in Ottoman Egypt: The Case of al-S脛聛da al-Bakr脛芦y"	IAIS Building/LT1&2
27 February 2019	Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke University & Honorary Research Fellow, Exeter) presents "Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience and the Syrian Revolution"	IAIS Building/LT1&2
23 March 2018	Centre for the Study of Islam Research Seminar "Centre and Periphery in Muslim Minority Studies"	Knightley
17 January 2018	The Ash'ari creed in Southeast Asia across the Centuries	IAIS Building/LT1