CGIS spotlights and promotes research and scholarship in interdisciplinary, comparative Islamic Studies. The Center sponsors an annual lecture series with visiting scholars, and an array of campus events (musical performances, workshops, and conferences). A 2016 international conference on Islam in Southeast Asia hosted by CGIS led to the publication of an edited volume: Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam: Beautiful Behavior (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019). The Center organized another conference in April 2022, culminating in a second edited volume entitled, Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022).
List of Recent Publications
Uğur Zekeriya Peçe Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World (Stanford University Press 2024) Learn More >
Bruce Whitehouse Enduring Polygamy: Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis (Rutgers University Press 2023) Learn More >
Robert Rozehnal (Editor) Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age (Bloomsbury 2022) Learn More >
Allison Mickel Why Those Who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor (University Press of Colorado 2021) Learn More >
Khurram Hussain The Muslim Speaks (Bloomsbury 2020) Learn More >
Khurram Hussain Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury 2019) Learn More >
Robert Rozehnal Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience (Oneworld 2019)
Robert Rozehnal (Editor) Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam: Beautiful Behavior (Bloomsbury 2019)