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Recent News
GISC Summer 2022 Fellowship Spotlight: Liaya Blueford
Liaya Blueford spent the summer interning for Dream of Detroit’s Storytelling Project, looking at the larger histories of African-American Muslims in the city through the development of a website, publicly accessible archive, and documentary film.
GISC Summer 2022 Fellowship Spotlight: Ahmet Barış Ekiz
Ahmet Barış Ekiz spent the summer in Amman, Jordan attending Qasid Insitute’s Arabic summer program. He covered a curriculum consisting of genres of religious literature in Classical Arabic, such as sira and tafsir.
The University of Michigan has extraordinary depth in scholarship and instruction dealing with Islam as a world religion and the study of Muslim peoples and societies. Over 50 faculty members from a wide array of departments and professional schools are currently engaged in work related to these topics. The study of Islam and Muslim societies at U-M is not confined to a few highly specialized departments, but is part of the University's mainstream. Read more.
We strive to support our students and faculty on the front lines of learning and research and to steward our planet, our community, our campus. To do this, the Global Islamic Studies Center needs your support.
