Dr. Wahid M. Amin, Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Al-Mahdi Institute, recently presented a paper at the Medeniyet University in Istanbul during a three-day international symposium (18-20 November 2016) dedicated to the 17th-century Ottoman scholar Ṭāshküprīzādah. Although western scholarship has known …
On Thursday 19th January 2017, Al-Mahdi Institute held a Research seminar on the topic of; “Lost in Translation: Taqlid and Marja’iyya in Shiite Islam” conducted by Dr Mohammadreza Kalantari of Royal Holloway, University of London. The seminar was attended by AMI students, faculty and …
Congratulations to AMI graduate Mahdiyah Abdulhussain who was awarded a one year studentship by The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS) at Royal Holloway, Universtiy of London. During this studentship she will be pursuing further research on ‘Organ Donation in …
On 26 November 2016 AMI faculty member and lecturer in Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Dr. Wahid M. Amin, participated in the Second Finnish Medieval Philosophy Workshop on the theme of Rationality in Perception at the University of Helsinki, Finland. This one-day workshop …