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Through its Publications Programme, AKU-ISMC aims to respond to the urgent need for representative scholarship about Muslims and Muslim civilisations by creating a platform for dialogue about contemporary Muslim contexts.
The Institute’s publications bring to the fore, various intellectual discourses, innovative thinking and important discussions that are taking place within and between Muslim societies. By creating access to academic literature that is produced within alternative frameworks, students, scholars, and the general public can benefit from the insight of locally generated perspectives. Consequently perspectives and subjects that have hitherto escaped attention can be introduced into the international arena of research and scholarship about Muslim civilisations.
Through its publications, the Institute hopes to add important voices to the larger global debates about Muslim civilisations, and in so doing, to highlight the dynamic processes of intense self scrutiny and self renewal currently taking place across various Muslim contexts.
On 15th October 2009, the Institute hosted a major event to launch 3 new series of academic publications. Held at the British Library in London, the event was well attended by people from various locations across the UK, along with several international visitors.
Guests included several academics, such as professors Robert and Carol Hillenbrand, noted authorities on scholarship about Islam, cultural attachés such as the Honorary Khalid Nadeem, Director of South Asian and Middle East Forum, multilaterals and diplomats from the Commonwealth Secretariat and elsewhere, members of the media such as Hamid Ismailov, Head of Central Asia and the Caucasus department within the BBC World Service and leadership from various Muslim communities, among others.
In addition, the CEO and senior management of the Edinburgh University Press were also present, as the publishers for these books in partnership with AKU-ISMC.
Speakers at the event included Firoz Rasul, President of the Aga Khan University, Professor Carole Hillenbrand from Edinburgh University, and finally, Dr. Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director of ISMC.
Published in partnership with Edinburgh University Press, the four volumes are now available across the United Kingdom in all major bookstores and online at www.eupjournals.com/page/IslamicStudies.
AKU-ISMC plans to expand the Publications Programme to include a range of publications which will seek to act as a forum for discussions about Muslim cultures.
Previous Publications
 Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World, Gerhard Endress (ed), E. J Brill, Leiden, 2006 The volume is based on the proceedings of the 2003 conference, Organising Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim World, held at the Institute from 14 - 16 November 2003.
Organising Knowledge: Encyclopeadic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World was published as a volume of the Brill publication series Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies.
Further Information
For further information about the AKU-ISMC Publications Programme please contact Sikeena Karmali Ahmed, Assistant Manager, Publications and Editing.
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