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Michael Cooperson Wins Sheikh Zayed Award
Michael Cooperson has won the 2020/21 Sheikh Zayed Award Translation Prize for Impostures, his Arabic to English translation Al-Hariri's Maqamat.
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Applications now open for 2025-2026 Community Bridges Residency
The UCLA Islamic Studies Program (ISP) is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Community Bridges Residency, a unique opportunity for community leaders, scholars, artists, and other professionals who engage with Islam, Islamic Studies, and Muslim communities in southern California and beyond.
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Postcards from UCLA Library Special Collections’ on Exhibit
In Spring 2022, librarians and staff of Special Collections generously facilitated a hands-on Islamic codicology and paleography course, taught by Associate Professor Luke Yarbrough.
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Michael Cooperson Wins Sheikh Zayed Award
Michael Cooperson has won the 2020/21 Sheikh Zayed Award Translation Prize for Impostures, his Arabic to English translation Al-Hariri's Maqamat.
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Applications now open for 2025-2026 Community Bridges Residency
The UCLA Islamic Studies Program (ISP) is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Community Bridges Residency, a unique opportunity for community leaders, scholars, artists, and other professionals who engage with Islam, Islamic Studies, and Muslim communities in southern California and beyond.
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About Us
The UCLA Islamic Studies program, founded in the late 1950’s, is among the oldest of such programs in the country. The program is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Islam and global Muslim communities. Students work with affiliated faculty whose regional specializations include North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia and whose interests span the rise of Islam up to the modern period. Islamic Studies courses are offered across academic fields and disciplines including history, law, Arabic, comparative literature, anthropology, sociology, study of religion, philosophy, and art and art history. The Ph.D. program in Islamic Studies is...
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Faculty Publications
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- Al Ma’mun
- Oxford: OneWorld Books, 2005
- Michael Cooperson
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- Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought
- Palgrave, 2013
- Asma Sayeed
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- Reasoning with God
- Rowan and Littlefield, 2014
- Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
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- The Search for Beauty in Islam
- Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
- Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
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- Impostures
- NYU Press, 2020
- Michael Cooperson
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- Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
- Cambridge University Press, 2013
- Asma Sayeed
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- Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
- Indiana University Press, 2013
- Susan Slyomovics
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- The Sword of Ambition
- NYU Press, 2016
- Luke Yarbrough
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- Al Ma’mun
- Oxford: OneWorld Books, 2005
- Michael Cooperson
-
- Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought
- Palgrave, 2013
- Asma Sayeed
-
- Reasoning with God
- Rowan and Littlefield, 2014
- Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
-
- The Search for Beauty in Islam
- Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
- Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
-
- Impostures
- NYU Press, 2020
- Michael Cooperson
-
- Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
- Cambridge University Press, 2013
- Asma Sayeed
-
- Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
- Indiana University Press, 2013
- Susan Slyomovics
-
- The Sword of Ambition
- NYU Press, 2016
- Luke Yarbrough