An interview with Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh by Prof Amina wadud on Spirituality and Gender on 1 November 2020.

Prof. Shaikh and A/Prof. Seedat were interviewed on “The Women’s Khutbah Book” (Yale University Press, 2022) by Pakistani artist, Fatimah Agha o

First launch of “The Women’s Khutbah Book” co-authored and co-edited by Sa’diyya Shaikh, Sa’diyya and Fatima Seedat (Yale U

At the American Academy of Religion in Denver, Colorado on the 19 November, 2022 was the first launch of “The Women’s Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World.” Co-authored and co-e

Andrea Brigaglia analyses Khadh‘ al-waram min al-khawārij al-Shīkawiyya bi-bay‘at ahl al-karam (Slicing off the Tumour of Shekau's Kharijites, in Pledging Allegiance to the Honourable One

On behalf of the Centre for Contemporary Islam (CCI) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, we are pleased to announce the release of our most recent edition of the Annual Review of Islam in Africa (ARIA). T

Funded by the Oppenheimer Africa Project, in cooperation with the Centre for African Studies (UCT), the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project (HUMA, UCT), and the Centre for Contemporary Islam (UCT), This workshop will take place in c

The focus of this conference will be the Islamic manuscripts produced in sub-Saharan Africa, either in Arabic or in local languages written in the Arabic alphabet (‘ajami). The aim of the conference is to gather contributions on the dif

Religion education is a contested field in our changing societies and communities. This project is dedicated to critically examine what is happening in South Africa.

The CCI invites Research Fellows to join its research projects

A workshop planned with East African Scholars of religions in 2013.

Professor Abdulkader Tayob headed to Kenya in March for a special workshop, in which he and a group of Kenyan-based scholars met to discuss the role and status of Kadhis' Courts - presided over by judicial officers who adjudicat