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The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies is the central hub at Stanford University for the study of Islam and Islamicate societies & communities.

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Changing the Narrative on Suicide in Muslim Communities

With American Muslims twice as likely to have attempted suicide compared to the national average, psychiatrist and Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellow Rania Awaad has sought to address the taboo in many Muslim American communities by conducting…
  • Courses

Introducing a New Course for the 2025 Spring Quarter

We are pleased to announce the new course, Gender and Politics in the Middle East (19th and 20th Centuries), which will be taught by Dr. Gizem Sivri, Marie Curie fellow and visiting postdoctoral scholar at Abbasi, in the spring quarter. Seminar…
  • Grants & Fellowships

Abbasi 2025 Summer Research & Travel Grant Program is now open!

2025 Program application deadline is Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:59 pm PST. The Abbasi Program invites proposals from continuing undergraduate, co-term, and graduate students for projects related to the study of Islam, as well as Muslim-…

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April
22

Date
Tue April 22nd 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location
Faculty Club
439 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Redwood Room

Keynote: “Gender Apartheid: The View from the Biden/Harris…

April
22

Date
Tue April 22nd 2025, 4:00pm
Location
Building 360
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
CCSRE…
with Rushain Abbasi, Abiya Ahmed, and Alexander Key. Chaired by Anna Bigelow.…
April
23

Date
Wed April 23rd 2025, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Levinthal Hall

Ash'arism has been widely perceived in the West as  Islam's theological orthodoxy.  And for decades, the standard view in the Western…