LibGuides: Islamic Studies: Islamic Studies Program @ AUB

AUB's MA program in Islamic Studies is an interdisciplinary program with the goal of providing students with the background to expand their knowledge and understanding of classical and modern Islamic religious thought, context and textual traditions. more ...

For any questions about the Islamic Studies program, check the Graduate Catalog or contact CAMES the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (email: cames@aub.edu.lb)

For information about alumni theses, check this list:

“The discussion of the soul is difficult” – the soul as an incorporeal and simple substance in the Thirteenth Night from Abū Ḥayyān Aṭ-Ṭawḥīdī’s Kitāb Al-Imtāʿ Wa-L-Muʾānasa / by Christian Ludwig Thiele.
Colloquy and soliloquy in the Arabo-Islamic heritage : three religious interlocutors / by Dima Ahmad El-Mouallem.
Slaves and matrimony in the legal cultures of the late Sasanian and early Islamic empires / by Tobias Scheunchen.
The formation of paradisiacal notions in the early Muslim community : influences and innovations / by Rawan Afif al-Kayat.
Origin, emanation and return in al-Fayd al-Kāshānī’s ʿAyn al-Yaqīn / by Wissam Iman Nuwayhid

Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut aims to support research, increase awareness, and encourage greater interest in the study of Islamic religious thought, Quranic studies, Belles-Lettres, Sufism, history, literature, grammar, lexicography, philology, law, and other aspects of the Arabic-Islamic civilization.

The Chair offers MA and PhD scholarships in Arabic and Islamic Studies, and sponsors international academic conferences, public lectures, research forums, film screenings, workshops, and roundtables to promote Arabic and Islamic studies in the region—and reinvigorate the humanities at AUB.

Sample AUB Lectures

Nubuwwa in Islam and Our'anic Image of Maryam

The idea of Islam today: Towards Non-Orientalist Genealogies


Islam and Literature	Feminism in Crisis: Islamic Feminism contemporary Frameworks

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AUB Press

- Arabic and Islamic Texts and Studies Series. This series is comprised of volumes of texts, translations, commentaries, and
studies of important works of Arabic and Islamic studies from the premodern and modern periods. more ...

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Sample Books, Essays, Conference Papers, Essays, etc.

God and man in contemporary Islamic thought by Charles Malik (Editor)
Call Number: J 291:P568ga
Publication Date: 1972
Proceedings of the Philosophy Symposium held at the American University of Beirut, February 6-10, 1967. The papers presented here are in the original languages in which they were delivered: eight in English, three in Arabic and one in French. A wide variety of subjects are covered, from Islam in Africa and Islamic law and contemporary issues, to Sufism and Muslim Art.
Studia Arabica et Islamica: Festchrift for Ihsan ʿAbbas on his Sixtieth Birthday by Wadad al-Qadi (Editor)
Call Number: J 909.04927:S933q
Publication Date: 1981
Major academic contributions on the subjects of classical Arabic literature and Arab history were published in honor of the eminent Arab scholar Ihsan ʿAbbas on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Fifty-six papers by distinguished scholars from many countries make up the volume.
Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences by Edward S. Kennedy
Call Number: J 509.176:K35s
Publication Date: 1983
This compilation of articles by E. S. Kennedy, many of them joint publications with his students at AUB, covers a wide range of topics within the fields of Islamic astronomy, astrology, and mathematics.
In the house of understanding by Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn, Tarif Khalidi, Suleiman A. Mourad (Editors)
Call Number: J 956.92044:I356a
Publication Date: 2017
A collection of twenty-three papers, written in Dr. Salibi's honor and memory, similarly covers a range of subjects that touch upon his interests. Papers are arranged in four sections: (a) Kamal Salibi as Teacher and Historian; (b) Lebanese, Ottoman, and Arab History; (c) Islamic Studies; and (d) Syriac Studies.
Byzantium in Early Islamic Syria : proceedings of a conference organized by the American University of Beirut and the University of Balamand June 18-19, 2007 by Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Shaun O'Sullivan (Editors)
Call Number: J 956.9:M992tA:2007
Publication Date: 2011
It is divided into two parts comprising two respective chronological eras, – the early Islamic period, from the Islamic conquests of Syria until the fall of the Umayyad dynasty (632–750), and the period of Byzantine reconquest of Syria (969–1084).
Radical Islamic fundamentalism : the ideological and political discourse of Sayyid Qutb by Ahmad S. Moussalli
Call Number: J 297:Q677mo
Publication Date: 1992
Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) was the chief spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s. His books provided Islamic fundamentalism with its most important intellectual base. The author presents an in-depth discussion of Qutb's life and writings, and focuses on the political and intellectual foundations of fundamentalism.
Quest for understanding : Arabic and Islamic studies in memory of Malcolm H. Kerr by Samir Seikaly, Ramzi Baalbaki, Peter Dodd (Editors)
Call Number: J 956:Q5q
Publication Date: 1991
This volume is a collection of essays in the memory of Dr. Kerr whose own scholarship centered on the politics and history of the Middle East and Islam. The studies are divided into three parts: Lebanon, past and present; the politics of the modern Middle East; and Islamic legacy.
The image of the Word : a study of Quranic verses in Islamic architecture by Erica Cruikshank Dodd and Shereen Khairallah
Call Number: J 745.61:D639i (2 volumes)
Publication Date: 1981
In Islam, the concept that the Word was revealed to man in its highest and final form in the Qurʾan has made it the foundation of all Muslim artistic expression. The authors of this study present a collection of published transcriptions of Qurʾanic inscriptions on Islamic monuments from Jerusalem, Cairo, and Damascus. The study is limited to the world of medieval Islam.