Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce the call for papers for its upcoming two-day conference on Monday 22nd April to Tuesday 23rd April 2024, titled: ‘The Oneness of Being (Waḥdat al-Wujūd): Interpretation, Reception, and Implications’ convened by Dr Zoheir Esmail. The …
The first round of the AMI Doctoral Scholarship has been awarded to three young scholars of Imāmī Shīʿism whose research sheds new light on the tradition from a variety of perspectives. The scholarship was set up to promote and encourage …
Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce the call for papers for their upcoming two-day conference, running from Monday, 12 February until Tuesday, 13 February 2024, titled: ‘Compiling a Tradition: The History and Development of the Early Imāmī Hadith Corpora,‘ convened by …
On the 8th July 2023, Al-Mahdi Institute celebrated its Graduation and 30-Year Jubilee. The day was an opportunity to reflect on AMI’s achievements over the last three decades, to celebrate the success of its graduates, and honour our distinguished honorary …
We are delighted to share the new AMI Insights magazine with you. Here, you can read about what AMI has been up to over the last year and what our plans are for the future.
We are delighted to announce the commencement of a brand new course taught at Al-Mahdi Institute by Dr Laurens de Rooij on the sociology of Islam. This will be a live course taught online on Wednesdays at 8pm, starting on …
Al-Mahdi Institute’s Lecturer in Arabic, Shaykh Muhammed Reza Tajri, has been involved in the translation of yet another important text, into the English Language. Having previously brought a number of successful translations to publication, Shaykh Tajri’s most recent work on …
We are delighted to announce the publication of the second volume in the Collected Writings of al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī series. The volume entitled ‘The Way of Nobility: Knowledge of the Imam’ is a translation of Ḥillī’s ‘Minhāj al-karāma fī maʿrifat al-imāma’ …
AMI is delighted to welcome Dr Nebil Husayn, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Global Black Studies at the University of Miami, as a visiting fellow between the 29th May and the 20th June …
Al-Mahdi Institute held a two-day international academic conference, marking a new chapter in the Institute’s commitment to promoting research and scholarship in various Islamic disciplines. This event was the first in a series of conferences devoted to examining aspects of …