​Alḥamdulillāh, as part of the Centre for Islamic Knowledge’s ongoing efforts to contribute to the intellectual flourishing of the Umma, we were honoured to participate in the 10th Annual British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Conference, held at the University of Cambridge. Widely recognized as the foremost academic gathering for the study of Islam in Western Europe, the BRAIS Conference convenes leading scholars and emerging voices from across the world.

The conference opened with the CIK-sponsored keynote panel, “The Khaldunian Dialectic: Between Power and Morality,” featuring two distinguished intellectuals: Professor Syed Farid Alatas (National University of Singapore) and Professor Recep Şentürk (Hamad Bin Khalifa University).

In addition, a number of scholars associated with CIK delivered thought-provoking papers, including:

• Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury (Centre for Islamic Knowledge) — The Qur’an’s challenges (taḥaddī) in the age of GPT: Can AI pass the test?
• Dr. Nazir Khan (University of Nottingham) — Ibn Taymiyya’s Theocentric Axiology
• Mohamud Awil Mohamed (University of Pennsylvania) — Sufi-Salafi Rivalries and the Construction of Authority in the Somali Diaspora
• Dr. Mansur Ali (Cardiff University) — Sherman Jackson’s ‘The Islamic Secular’ between Ibāḥa Aṣliyya and Ẓāhiriyya: An exploration of various models of the Sharīʿa
• Dr. Haroon Sidat (Cardiff University) — Angelic Ontology and the Deobandi Maslak: Tradition, Pedagogy and Adaptation in Modernity
• Dr. Salman Younas (Cambridge Muslim College) — The Ḥanafī School in the 3rd/9th Century: The Life, Career, and Contributions of ʿĪsā b. Abān
• Dr. Usaama al-Azami (University of Oxford) — Manufacturing Consent for Genocide: Western Media as Propaganda in the Gaza War
• Dr. Ermin Sinanović (Shenandoah University) — Decolonizing the future: Insights from an Islamic theology
• Dr. Ramon Harvey (Cambridge Muslim College) — Adopted Son of Samarqand: Abū Salama, ‘Māturīdism’ and Popular Sunnī Ḥanafī Creed in 4th/10th Century Transoxiana