Global Islamic Studies Center
We are the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan. We promote the understanding of global Islamic culture and Muslim societies worldwide.
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Muslims in the Digital Age: AI and Muslim Piety on TikTok A Lecture by Dr. Christoph Günther
Halaloween Special: Jinn & Legends: Stories from Palestine
Halaloween: Muslim Horror Film Festival Interview with Nayla Al Khaja. Director of Three (2024)
9th Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture: Motaz Azaiza
Muslim Women's Rulings: Issuing Fatwas in Indonesia by Dr. Nor Ismah
Palestine & Free Speech Activism, Advocacy, and Law
Halaloween: Muslim Horror Film Festival Interview with Cairo Conspiracy Director, Tarik Saleh
Halaloween: Muslim Horror Film Festival Interview with Tiger Stripes Director, Amanda Nell Eu
Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling by Charlotte Karem Albrecht
A Religion & Feminism Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean
Politics and Culture in the Muslim World. Muslims in the Balkans: On the Edges of Islam and Europe
Halaloween 2022 Roundtable: Muslim Horror in the 21st Century
Afghanistan's Bleak Future Under the Taliban Rule
Islamic Chaplaincy in North America and Mantle of Mercy Book Launch
Black Muslim Revolutions: From the Masjid to the World: Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller
Black Islam in the Americas Series: Two Gods Filmmaker Q&A with Zeshawn Ali, Aman Ali, & Razi Jafri
Muslim Women in the Digital Age: Misha Euceph, Emmen Ahmed, and Aint Afraid
Afghanistan Series Part 3: A Conversation with Sonita Alizadeh & Cara Cruickshank
Halaloween Roundtable: Muslim Horror in the 21st Century
Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence: Queering War in Afghanistan by Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim
Muslims in Comics: Superheroes and Scapegoats (Updated Video)
DISC Distinguished Lecture - Eboo Patel, "American Muslims in the Era of Islamophobia"
The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum
Unraveling the Arab Spring: Egypt since 2011
Investigating Islam: A Community Forum
Human Rights, Gender, and Sexuality in the Islamic World
DISC Distinguished Lecture: Gender and Sexuality in the Islamic Culture
Intro to Islam
American Qur'an
Qur’anic Paradigms and Analogies in Caliphal Rhetoric