Recent News

It is with great sadness that the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies announces the death of Robert C. Gregg, the Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus and our Program's Founding Director. A prolific scholar and …
The Abbasi Program warmly welcomes Dr. Banu Karaca, Aron Rodrigue International Visitor at the Humanities Center and Director of the Research Group Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge; EUME, Forum…

We are pleased to announce that Rushain Abbasi will join the Religious Studies Department in the Fall of ’23 as an Assistant Professor of Early Islam. Dr. Abbasi comes to this position as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford…

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The Stanford student group, the Turkish Students Association is raising funds for aid via to victims. Donate here. Bridge to Türkiye Fund is…

Stanford faculty, staff, and students mobilized to support those affected by the disaster that has killed tens of thousands and injured many more.

In the aftermath of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in the early…