Research Activities

Focused workshops, seminars and conferences are a regular feature of the Institute's research activities. A wide range of topics related to the work of the Institute is also discussed through the Institute's public lecture series. Interested individuals can register to attend the events​​​ ​or join via a webinar. You can also subscribe to receive AKU event alerts.

Examples of they type of conferences, seminars and workshops organised by the Institute: ​

• Reimagining Muslim Pasts​

• Ethnographies of Islam: Describing Religious Practices in the Muslim World, London

• Islamic Norms and Legal Processes: The Interactions of Legal Practices and Theoretical Formulations, London

• Reconsidering Dubai: New perspectives for cities in the Middle East?, London

• Cities: Understanding Socio-cultural Transformations, Istanbul

• Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Models from the Past, Questions for the Future, Vancouver

Recent speakers have included:

• David Goodhart

• Professor Said Arjomand
  

• Dr Asifa Quraishi-Landes
  

• Dr Asem Khalil​
  

• Professor Robert Gleave

• Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh

• Professor Tariq Rahman, 

• Dr Hugh Kennedy

• Dr Venetia Porter