The Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University was inaugurated on April 1, 2022. Formerly known as the Center for Islamic Studies, the Institute was established in 2006 as a division of the Institute of Asian Cultures, and became a research unit of the Temporary Research Division in 2010. Our goal is to pursue the study of Islam as a global issue by means of area studies based on detailed field research throughout the world. For more information, click here.
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- An in-person Workshop on "The Trends in Pro- and Anti-Sufi Movements" held on Saturday, June 17, 2023, in collaboration with the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University (in English).
- A hybrid Seminar on "Moderate Islam" held on Sunday, June 11, 2023, in collaboration with the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University (in Japanese).
- The Institute of Islamic Area Studies will sponsor a screening of the Uzbek ethnographic film "Guli Armug'on" on Saturday, Jul. 22, 2023 (this link takes you directly to an external site in Japanese).
- A Hybrid Research Lecture by Prof. Rachida Chih on Sunday June 11, 2023 (in English).
- A research Seminar on "Mashriq Society and Politics" will be jointly organized by The Institute of Islamic Area Studies and Kyoto Sangyo Univerisity on Thursday May 25 (in English).
- The Institute of Islamic Area Studies will hold a hybrid research Seminar on "Land Tenure, Inheritance, and Gender in Middle East" on Tuesday May 23, 2023 (in English).
- The Institute of Islamic Area Studies will hold a hybrid research Seminar on "Raqqa, urban society in northern Syria" on Friday May 19, 2023 (in English).
- Online version of Sixteen Year History of the Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University: From 2006 to 2021 Academic Year (SIAS Working Paper 43) was published (in Japanese).
- The Institute of Islamic Area Studies will hold a workshop, "Food Problems in the Middle East and North Africa Today: The Cases of Tunisia, Lebanon, and Egypt," on Friday, February 10, 2023 (in Japanese).
- Online version of Islamic Learning of al-Azhar from the End of 19th Century to the Beginning of 20th Century: Annotated Translation of ‘L’enseignement, la doctrine et la vie dans les universités musulmanes d’Égypte’ by Pierre Arminjon (SIAS Working Paper 41, in Japanese) and Comparative Study of Southeast Asian Kitabs (7): Islamic Books and Learning in Thailand (SIAS Working Paper 42, in English) were published .
