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UCLA College Magazine Featured Story: Charting a Course for Islamic Studies at UCLA

As part of outreach efforts, the Islamic Studies Program has partnered with the Fowler Museum to launch the new Community Bridges Residency, where civic leaders engaged with the Muslim community can connect with UCLA students and faculty and benefit from research resources.

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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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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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