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Reminder! 📚 Join us for our upcoming workshop, "Islamic Law, Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Modern State," on Friday, March 28 at 12 PM. This event is open to grad students, postdocs, and faculty. For more information and to register, visit: islamicstudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/workshop-islam…

Join us on Friday, March 28, 2025, at 3 pm (EST) for Hande Gürses’ Book Presentation: Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk, hosted by Seminar in Ottoman & Turkish Studies. More info on the NMC website (uoft.me/SeminarinOttom…). Registration link for online: bit.ly/SOTS-HandeGurs…

Eid Mubarak! Eid Al-Fitr is an occasion of peace, joy and festivity. Newspapers in our collections point to the ways Eid in Canada is celebrated and memorialized. Fardawsa was a Toronto-based Somali and English print publication. Courtesy of Naseer (Irfan) Syed fonds.

Can Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models—ChatGPT-4, Gemini, Co-Pilot, and DeepSeek— apply the principles of Islamic inheritance law accurately, comprehensively, and authentically? Read Prof. Abbasi's recent essay to find out! buff.ly/vmVf7Vu

🚨 Opportunity🚨 The Program in Islamic Law is seeking a Managing Editor to begin as early as June 2025 for a one-year term. All submissions must be made via formstack. Deadline: April 30th buff.ly/FuHIOx1

Can LLMs replace the marjaʿ? Or is there an essential attribute of the marjaʿ that distinguishes it from a machine-generated response? Prof. Takshid explores these questions in her recent essay in the Roundtable on AI and Islamic Law! buff.ly/S2GkBmZʿ/

Join us Wednesday for the first lecture in the CSRS summer series. CSRS faculty fellow Zaheera Jinnah will be in conversation with incoming CSRS director Rachel Brown. UVic Social Work

Join us on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 10 am (EST) for Gönül Bozoğlu’s talk “Official and Major to Personal and Minor Heritages in Turkey”, presented by Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies. For more information, visit the NMC website (uoft.me/SeminarinOttom…).

New update from Seemore Foundation & the Usul platform, which relies on OpenITI texts. It is great to see the reuse of work by the KITAB and OpenITI project teams + Shamela. Their motto: 'Building for The AI Age'. usul.ai. Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him), Maxim Romanov SHARIAsource

What are the possibilities of analyzing metadata of Islamic manuscript collections to better understand Islamic legal history? Dr. Sohaib Baig reflects on this in his recent essay in the Roudntable on AI and Islamic Law! buff.ly/iTD3cYi

On May 29, MiCA will be hosting Bouchra Mossman, a researcher examining how religious practice intersects with migration, concepts of space and place, and processes of belonging and community-building in the Canadian northern setting. Learn more: eventbrite.com/e/muslims-in-t…

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In 2010, Emmanuel College launched the Canadian Certificate of Muslim Studies, growing into today’s Muslim stream of the MPS program. On May 12 at EC Alumni/ae Day we'll celebrate this interfaith milestone — then prepare to cheer on the Class of 2025 at #ECGrad2025 on May 15!

🌍 Governing Diversity: Engaging with a Complex World – A face-to-face Short Course How have societies managed diversity throughout history? Join AKU’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations AKU-ISMC (UK) for an immersive short course in Toronto & London, in

May 19, 2025 marked 100 years since the birth of Malcolm X. The legacy of el Hajj Malik el Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X, is widely honoured by Muslims across Canada. We’re pleased to share archival materials that shed light on his impact. Read more: muslimsincanadaarchives.ca/en/posts/honou…

Happening next week at Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA)! Register now: eventbrite.ca/e/muslims-in-t…

On the centennial of Malcolm X's birth, the latest Muslims in Canada Archives (Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA)) blog takes focus on celebrations of Malcolm's life among Muslim Canadians: muslimsincanadaarchives.ca/en/posts/honou…

This weekend, Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) is hosting their very first open house! Visit and explore histories of Muslims in Canada: toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/…