Psychological Journeys into the Experience of Religious Conversion/Deconversion

Wednesday 18th May 2022 between 15:00 – 16:00

Aziz Foundation are offering scholarships for MA Islam and Sustainable Development.

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Online Information Session

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Centre for the Study of Wellbeing

Launch event on Tuesday 10 May 2022 between 10 – 12.30pm

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MIHE Centre for the study of Wellbeing Launch – May 2022

On May 10th, the Markfield Institute of Higher Education welcomed students, alumni, practitioners and academics to the launch of the Centre for the study of Wellbeing (CSWB). Delegates joined both in person and online, with opportunities to network afterwards. The...

Challenging Islamophobia: Strategies for Change

On Tuesday, 29th March 2022, the Markfield Centre for Contemporary Islam (Markfield Institute), Centre of Ethnicity and Racism Studies (University of Leeds) and the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre (De Montfort University) teamed up to run a workshop developing...

To Be a Talib: The Benefits of a Madrassah Education

Sheikh JanMohammad gained the unusual distinction of being the first Western alim to graduate from the Deobandi madrassah in Northern India becoming a religious scholar – a talib. Here, he received a classical Islamic education attributed to opening the doors to...

Teaching and Research Methods for Islamic Economics and Finance – Book Summary

Research and teaching are of fundamental importance to the sustained development of Islamic Economics and Finance. This text offers the findings of cutting edge research on a wide range of interrelated topics in this field within its 22 chapters. Two of the...

Spiritual Abuse: Identifying and Addressing Risk – One day course

"Being able to acknowledge and validate that this issue exists and needs to be addressed" (was of most benefit to myself). It was really beneficial to "deconstruct spiritual abuse". "Excellent learning opportunity" and "comprehensive overview". Above is some of the...

Muslim Identity Politics: Activism and Agency in Securitised Times

Drawing upon a range of historical examples Dr Khadijah Elshayyal commenced her presentation by commenting on the long history of Muslim activism in the UK that encompassed causes, campaigning, organisation and the search for justice. She touched on responses to...

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Spiritual Abuse: Identifying and Addressing Risk for Faith Organisations

Registration and Induction Day 2022

Registration is an essential step in becoming a student. Although the process requires students to authenticate the documents and certificates we offer lunch and refreshments throughout the day. All students will most likely have completed the online registration by...

Career Planning and Employability Skills Workshop Review

We delivered eight 2.5 hour workshops between 09 January to 27 March 2022 covering a range of topics on Career Planning and Employability skills. The workshops were designed to raise the participants’ awareness of essential employability skills sought in the...