Inaugural OIBI Conference

19 – 22 August 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Oxford Institute for British Islam (OIBI) is a brand-new think tank and academic facility promoting a Qur’an-centric faith that is rooted in and relevant to the United Kingdom. It champions an erudite, egalitarian, and enlightened Islam in conformity with pristine scriptural tenets.

Open to those of all faiths and none, OIBI seeks to be the premier forum for the scholarly articulation of a liberal, forward-looking and progressive Islam through rigorous intellectual analyses and a forensic application of contemporary Qur’anic hermeneutics.

OIBI holds its inaugural conference at St John’s College in the University of Oxford from 19th – 21st August 2022. This scholarly convention seeks to disseminate rigorous cross-disciplinary research and study covering the full spectrum of issues relating to Islam and Muslims in Britain as well as building a truly epistemic community transcending existing philosophical and pedagogical boundaries.

This academic gathering furnishes a nationwide and global platform for established experts, upcoming researchers, emerging scholars, and graduate students to share research findings with authoritative specialists in their respective fields. Paper proposals will be evaluated based on originality, research depth, and pertinence to the conference’s objectives. The best submissions will be published in a collection of essays in conjunction with a leading scholarly publisher.

At this, its inaugural event, OIBI’s first conference will revolve around its core mission:

BRITISH ISLAM: THE VISION FOR THE FUTURE

Contributions and presentations are sought from every pertinent field of inquiry, addressing the following key themes:

THEME 1 – THEOLOGICAL AND TEXTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF BRITISH ISLAM

THEME 2 – DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF BRITISH ISLAM AND UK MUSLIMS

THEME 3 – BRITISH MUSLIMS – DIFFERENCES, DISADVANTAGE & DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH, EDUCATION, LEGAL PROCESS, ETC.

THEME 4 – GENDER AND FEMINISM – PATRIARCH, SEXISM, MISOGYNY, POLYGAMY

THEME 5 – LAW, POLITICS, AND GOVERNMENT – RADICALISATION, TERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, SHARI’AH COURTS

THEME 6 – ECOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMICS – CLIMATE CHANGE, FAMILY, BANKING, INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS, AND TRANS-RELIGIOUS INTERACTION

THEME 7 – ARTS, CULTURE, AND ECOLOGY – MUSIC, LITERATURE, POETRY, ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

THEME 8 – BRITISH ISLAM AND THE GLOBAL UMMAH – THE MIDDLE EAST, INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT, AND WIDER WORLD

The programme will group together submissions along similar subjects to facilitate knowledge diffusion as well as community-building.

The closing date for presentation proposals is 15th July 2022.

Submissions for the conference, including paper title and abstract (300 words), should be emailed to: info@oibi.org.uk