On the 19th of December AMI Research hosted its second research seminar of the semester led by Professor Ali Paya. Professor Paya’s paper offered a critical analysis of the epistemological status of the ‘function’ of the jurist. Through distinguishing between …
AMI Faculty and students participate in University of Exeter conference “Responsibility, Autonomy and Truth in the Public Sphere: Christian and Islamic Approaches”. The conference, held on the 16th-17 December 2013 at Exeter University’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, was …
AMI Outreach Officer Farhana Kapasi attended Scriptural Reasoning at the University of Cambridge on 28th August, 2013. This session was organised by Cambridge University Interfaith Programme which brings together an international group of students from Islamic, Christian and Jewish backgrounds, for …
AMI Outreach Officer Farhana Kapasi attended ESRC funded roundtable discussion on Sunni-Shia dialogue and its impact on Islamic Education on Britain on Tuesday 27th August 2013. The discussion was part of a project of the University of Derby – “Collaborative …
Once again during the Holy Month of Ramadhan, Shaykh Arif Abdulhussain of Al-Mahdi Institute delivered lectures at the IUS Manchester Majaalis programme started on Saturday 27th July 2013 for 7 nights where he shared his knowledge through the lectures as well as Q & …
The Al-Mahdi Institute hosted Rev. Yoshinobu Miyake Sensei, the chief Shinto Priest from Japan and the staff and members of International Association of Religious Freedom (IARF) on Saturday, 6th July’13. IARF has over ninety affiliated groups, spread over twenty countries, with a wide …
The Re-Appearance from Christian’s and Muslim’s views was the title of the Al-Mahdi Institute’s first outreach event in Switzerland. It was held in Uitikon near Zürich on the 23rd of June 2013, the 13th of Shaban 1434, two days prior to …
On Wednesday 19th June 2013, the Al-Mahdi Institute held an innovative seminar in conjunction with Dr Chris Hewer to consider the current perceptions of Islam that exist in society today, and to explore the ways in which a more accurate and …
On 30th May 2013 and 6th June 2013 the Al-Mahdi Institute invited Sheikh Abbas M M Jaffer to give a series of two public lectures at the AMI Selly Oak Campus on modern day issues facing Qur’anic studies. Sheikh Abbas Jaffar is a part …
On Saturday 25th May 2013, the Al-Mahdi Institute in conjunction with Imamia Medics International (IMI) held a conference entitled ‘Moral Dilemmas in a Medical Context from an Islamic Perspective’. IMI is a global medical professional organisation that derives its inspiration from …