Uzair Ibrahim 🍉

I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book Rethinking Islamic Modernism: Religious Identity and Community in Colonial North India, which came out earlier this year in the McGill-Queen's University Press series on Modern Islamic Thought, edited by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and Humeira Iqtidar.

Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Alrighty, let’s do this! For the price of lunch you can help some sweet Syrian kids stay in school this year.

Y’all helped me raise $115 yesterday, let’s do it again today! C’mon click that button and donate, it'll feel great!

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We're delighted to share the next lecture in the Shii Studies Network's Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series to take place on 2 February 2026.

Something to look forward to in the New Year: the next talk in our Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series!

Karen Ruffle will be giving a talk on 12 January 2026 entitled "Making Shiʿism “Matter”: Bringing Material and Sensory Cultures to the Study of Shiʿism."

Winter Lecture Series January 28 February 25 March 25 Virtual, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (CT) Free; registration required Details: hmml.org/events

Celebrate HMML’s 60 years of preserving & sharing manuscripts in the upcoming Winter Lecture Series, held virtually at 11 a.m. (CT) on January 28, February 25, & March 25.

Join HMML staff and curators on a journey of partnerships & preservation. Free and open to the public; RSVP at hmml.org/events.

I’m nearing the end of my PhD and looking for postdoc opportunities in the UK, preferably in or near London. If you come across any opportunities in Islamic/religious studies, South Asian history, intellectual history—please direct them my way. RT for visibility and don’t hesitate to get in touch.

We are delighted to announce the second lecture in our Reflections on Shiʿi Studies lecture series by Dr Elvire Corboz, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and the Middle East at the University of Edinburgh.

Further details and registration can be found here: www.shiistudies.net/events/corbo...

Colleagues attending the ECSAS at Heidelberg this year, please join us for our fantastic double panel on Thursday, 2nd Oct., 2-6.30 pm, co-convened by Francesca Chubb-Confer, Brannon Ingram and myself!

Title: Orientalism’s ‘Other’: Islamic Studies, European Thought, and South Asia

I am pleased to announce the call for papers for a workshop Edmund Hayes and I are organising as part of the Embodied Imamate project: "The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam," to be held between 11–12 June 2026 at Leiden University.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

The first session in our seminar series will be taking place on 20 October featuring @kontny-wendt.bsky.social and Ebrahim Mansoor. Further information can be found here: www.shiistudies.net/events/semin....

Presenting next week (on 23 Sep) with friends and colleagues at the inaugural Ginan Studies Conference put together by the Association for the Study of Ginans with The Institute of Ismaili Studies and @soasuni.bsky.social. All times in BST. Hybrid and open to all. Registration: asginans.com/events

So delighted to be part of this!

New study finds that using ChatGPT to write essays led to reduced brain activity & memory compared to writing without tools or using a search engine. While ChatGPT made writing easier, it also caused cognitive offloading, weakening learning and engagement over time.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Thrilled to announce another London showing of our film Songs Of The Sufi.

This time we welcome the qawwals Najmuddin Saifuddin & Group, who are the focus of the film, to the panel Q&A…followed by a qawwali concert!

This is one NOT to miss!

SOAS, 12 June, 6pm 👇

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Honoured to be presenting at this conference next week with many amazing friends/colleagues/teachers! Come along for the excellent presentations and if, for whatever reason, you wanna hear me talk about jinn and gender. Entire conf hybrid.
Details and registration: www.iis.ac.uk/events/devot...

Honoured to be presenting at this conference next week with many amazing friends/colleagues/teachers! Come along for the excellent presentations and if, for whatever reason, you wanna hear me talk about jinn and gender. Entire conf hybrid.
Details and registration: www.iis.ac.uk/events/devot...

I'll be presenting virtually at the New Generations/Jil Jadid conf at the CMES, UT Austin tomo at 1:15 pm CST/7:15 pm BST. Sad to not be able to attend in person but if you are around, do join us at utexas.zoom.us/j/94026515084. Full programme and details here: liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/graduate...

Thanks

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Graphic promoting Panel 1 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Imperialism” featuring Mariam Durrani, Professorial Lecturer, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University; Hafsa Kanjwal, Associate Professor, South Asian History, Lafayette College; and Anna Storti, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University with moderator Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center

Graphic promoting Panel 2 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Humanity” featuring Manu Chander, Associate Professor, English, Georgetown University; Gabrielle Cornish, Assistant Professor, Musicology, Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin; and Steven Weitzman, Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania with moderator: Jacob Myers, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania

Graphic promoting Panel 3 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Aesthetics” featuring Sa'ed Atshan, Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore University; Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, Art History, University of Pennsylvania; and Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Associate Professor, Art History, Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture, Southern Methodist University with moderator Jeremy Steinberg, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania

Graphic promoting the keynote lecture of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Redefining the Political: Persianate Sociability and its States” by Mana Kia, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University with moderator Maryam Athari, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center

As we gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ book "“Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society,” scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts gather on 2/21 for the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 interdisciplinary symposium “Keywords.”

Do we have to register for the livestream?

Ivory colored manuscript page with a vertically aligned inset illustration depicting a rocky outcropping in a muted rainbow of colors with twisting trees. Behind the outcropping is a golden sky with scrolling clouds. Near the top center is an image of a seated man wearing animal skins and a domical crown. He gestures to his left toward another seated male figure as a young man stands on his right. Animals, plants, and humans surround the central figures, and abundant vegetation grows. Shahanameh of Shah Tahmasp, folio 20v, Iran, 16th c., Aga Khan Museum

What is Islamic art? lol glad you asked my friend but guess what? It's almost impossible to define. Yet that semiotic fluidity is what makes it so endlessly fascinating.

Every Monday, I'll post an object from my class History of the Medieval Islamic World in 100 Objects. It'll be funnn come along!

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South The Opportunity

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on!
www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

CfP! My colleague Razak Khan and I are co-hosting the panel "Unfamiliar. Family, Law and Democracy in South Asia" at #ECSAS 2025. We're especially interested in changing parental rights and child custody. ecsas2025.com/panel/23-unf...

It’s here, a *start* of an Islamic Studies Starter Pack. Please spread the word. This is a work in progress… Scholars of Islam in all regions and periods, let me know, and I’ll happily add you.
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