AKU-ISMC holds a range of research related activities including workshops, seminars and conferences throughout the year. These have included two series of seminars on pluralism in Muslim contexts, a conference on cosmopolitanism, a seminar on governance and development and a conference on higher education in developing countries.

• Conferences and Workshops
• Research Fellowship Programme Seminars
• Discussing Cities Discussion Forum
• Possibility of Pluralism Seminar Series

Conferences and Workshops

• Workshop on Islamic Norms and Legal Processes: The Interactions of Legal Practices and Theoretical Formulations
  July 2009, London
• Reconsidering Dubai: New perspectives for cities in the Middle East?
  June 2009, London
• Cities: Understanding Socio-cultural Transformations
  October 2008, Istanbul
• Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Models from the Past, Questions for the Future
  June 2008, Vancouver
• Seminar on Governance and Development
  March 2008, London
• Theory and Practice of Law in Contemporary Muslim Contexts
  November 2005, London
• Higher education in developing countries: with a focus on Muslim contexts
  February 2005, London
• Organising Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim World
  November 2003, London

Research Fellowship Programme Seminars

The Research Fellowship Programme Seminars seek to introduce the Research Fellows and their projects, as well as raise questions related to the development of a collaborative research project for the fellows.

• First Research Fellowship Programme Seminar
  4 December 2008
• Second Research Fellowship Programme Seminar
  25 February 2009
• International Workshop
  6 May 2009

Discussing Cities Seminar Series - Forum on Urban Spaces

Discussing Cities is a space for thinking, research and discussion of the issues of lived and built environments. Discussing Cities is co-organised by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC).

2008/2009 Academic Year

• Discussing Cities Autumn Term Forum
  11 December 2008

2007/2008 Academic Year

• Discussing Cities Spring Term Forum
  12 June 2008
• Discussing Cities Winter Term Forum
  21 February 2008

Pluralism Seminar Series - The Possibility of Pluralism in Muslim Contexts

With the objective of encouraging engagement with the notion of pluralism and its specific relevance to Muslim societies, AKU-ISMC has held two seminar series in London and Karachi.

• Approaches to Pluralism
  2003 - 2004
• The Possibility of Pluralism
  2005 - 2007

The seminars covered a range of themes including: the negotiation of private and public spaces in Muslim contexts; civil society; historiography of arts in muslim contexts; and multiculturalism, secularism and pluralism.