Centre for Islamic Knowledge - CIK

​Dissemination of knowledge about Islam through the revival of the Islamic scholarly tradition.

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We are honoured to welcome Dr. Necmettin Kizilkaya as part of the distinguished faculty for the 2026 CIK Summer Academic Intensive at the Süleymaniye Madrasa in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Dr. Kızılkaya will be teaching ʿAmal and the Formation of Knowledge in the Islamic Intellectual Tradition.

Dr. Necmettin Kızılkaya is the Head of Department and Professor of Islamic Law and Economics at the Faculty of Divinity, Istanbul University, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance. He holds a BA and MA in Islamic Studies and Islamic Law from Marmara University and earned his PhD in Islamic Law from the Institute of Social Sciences at Selçuk University in 2011.

Dr. Kızılkaya has held visiting fellowships at prestigious institutions, including Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge. His scholarly work lies at the intersection of Islamic law, economics, and modernity, with research interests spanning the history of Islamic law, Islamic corporate law, the methodology of Islamic economics, migration, halal food regulation, and other contemporary issues viewed through a legal lens.

He is the author of several books, including Legal Maxims in Islamic Law: Concept, History and Application of Axioms of Juristic Accumulation (Brill, 2021) and Methodology of Islamic Economics: Problems and Solutions (Routledge, 2020). His research has been widely published in leading academic journals and continues to contribute to scholarly discourse in both Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic economics.
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Dr. Kızılkaya serves as a member of the Governance and Ethics Board at the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He is the Editor-in-Chief of both the Darulfunun Ilahiyat Journal and the Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics (TUJISE), as well as an Editor at Iktisat Publishing House.

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We are honoured to welcome Dr. @issameido as part of the distinguished faculty for the 2026 CIK Summer Academic Intensive at the Süleymaniye Madrasa in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Dr. Eido will be teaching Hadith and Islamic Legal and Theological Schools, with Readings from Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī​

Dr. Issam Eido is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He was a former Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Eido's research focuses on the Qur'an and Ḥadīth Studies and Sufism. Prior to the Syrian uprising, Eido served as a lecturer in the faculty of Islamic Studies in the Department of Qur'an and Ḥadīth Studies at the University of Damascus. His doctoral work, 'Early Ḥadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Ḥadīth Criticism,' presented a new understanding of the criteria used by Muslim scholars in accepting or rejecting traditions attributed to the Prophet and the transformations of that criteria from the classical to the modern period. Eido is one of the main students of well-known muḥaddith Shaykh Nūr al-Dīın ʿItr. In addition to Shaykh ʿItr, Eido studied and got traditional ijaza from several well-known scholars such as Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kurdī, Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAwwāma, and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāghūrī, and Shaykh Maḥmūd Maṣrī.

Currently, his research focuses on the question of authenticity and authoritative Islamic texts among Muslim scholars in the Islamic formative period. He has published extensively, including:​
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- Early Ḥadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Ḥadīth Criticism (two volumes)
- A critique on Khadiga Musa’s critical edition of ʿUmdat al‑Nāzir (published in Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion)
- The Rise of Syrian Salafism: From Denial to Recognition in The Syrian Uprising: From Denial to Recognition (Routledge, 2018)
- “Ṣaḥīḥ Al‑Bukhari’s Criteria: An Epistemological Perspective” (Ibn Haldun University Press, 2020)
- “Ḥanafī’s Criteria of Ḥadīth Criticism: The Role of Islamic Legal Maxims” in The Journal of Islamic Sciences, Al‑Fātiḥ University (Arabic, 2020)
- “Confession in the Public Sphere: A Trusteeship Criticism of Foucault’s Concepts of Confession and Power,” in The Theory of Trusteeship of Taha Abdulrahman (Brill, 2020)

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We are honoured to welcome Dr. @NaokiQYamamoto as part of the distinguished faculty for the 2026 CIK Summer Academic Intensive at the Süleymaniye Madrasa in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Dr. Naoki will be presenting on Islam in East Asia and Our Intellectual and Cultural Imperative

​Dr. Naoki Yamamoto is an Assistant Professor at the International Islamic University of Science and Technology-Türkiye and Director of the Institute of Muslim Societies and East Asian Civilizations (IMSEAC) in Japan.

He specializes in Ottoman Tasawwuf, Japanese classical culture, and comparative intellectual history, with a particular focus on Islamicate readings of East Asian traditions.

He is the founder of Japanese Islamicate Art, a cross-disciplinary project encompassing scholarship, calligraphy, narrative fiction, and cultural commentary. His publications include a Japanese translation of Sulamī’s Kitāb al-Futuwwa, Introduction to Tasawwuf: The Way of Training (Shueisha, 2023), and an English translation of Liu Zhi’s Wugong Shiyi (The Exposition of the Five Pillars of Islam), which is forthcoming from Fons Vitae.

Through teaching, writing, and artistic practice, his work seeks to explore how ethical traditions travel, settle, and take root without losing depth or integrity.

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CIK Summer Academic Intensive 2026: Prospective Student Information Session

The Centre for Islamic Knowledge (CIK) invites prospective students to attend an information session regarding the 2026 CIK Summer Academic Intensive, to be held at the historic Suleymaniye Madrasa in Istanbul, Turkiye, from July 18–26, 2026, in collaboration with Ibn Haldun University.

This nine-day intensive is designed to provide students with a rigorous engagement with the Islamic intellectual tradition through seminars delivered by a distinguished international faculty. In addition to structured coursework, participants will have the opportunity to visit leading academic institutions in Istanbul and engage with contemporary scholarly discussions across a range of disciplines.

To learn more about the program, we invite you to join a prospective student information session with Ustadh @AbuGhudda and Ustadh @Ibn_Asad2 on Monday, June 15, 2026, at 7:00 PM Central Time via Zoom.

The session will address:
- The academic vision and objectives of the program
- Courses and areas of study
- Student life and the educational experience in Istanbul
- Admissions requirements and application procedures
- Questions from prospective students

Information Session Registration: https://t.co/5OPWPeUHzh...

Summer Academic Intensive Information: https://t.co/FduUPl9FFn

We look forward to welcoming you and discussing the program further, in sha Allah.

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Introducing Faculty for the 2026 CIK Summer Academic Intensive at the Süleymaniye Madrasa in Istanbul, ​Türkiye.

We are honoured to welcome Shaykh @hamzakaramali as part of the distinguished faculty for the 2026 CIK Summer Academic Intensive at the Süleymaniye Madrasa in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Shaykh Hamza will be teaching Isnāds, Tawātur, and Rational Grounds for Affirming the Messengerhood of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

Shaykh Hamza Karamali earned his BASc And MASc in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, after which he moved abroad to study the Islamic sciences full-time in private one-on-one settings with distinguished traditional scholars in Kuwait, UAE, and Jordan, reading and memorizing traditional works in all of the Islamic sciences, and earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Islamic Law and Legal Theory from Jamia Nizamiyya in Hyderabad, India.

He specializes in developing authentically Muslim responses to the problem of atheism (visit his personal website: https://t.co/bfnHLUUQve). He is developing The Thinking Muslim’s Guide to Atheist Arguments (a free YouTube series) as well as a curriculum of courses that are designed to take our Islamic education to a new level by basing all of their conclusions on rational evidence. All of his work is grounded in the scholarly traditions of traditional Muslim seminaries such as al-Azhar of Cairo, the Qarawiyyin of Fez, the Zaytuna of Tunisia, and the Deoband of India. He has described the evidence-based curriculum of these classical seminaries in his The Madrasa Curriculum in Context, and will develop that scholarly vision further in a forthcoming work that presents traditional Islamic logic in the idiom of contemporary logic and philosophy.

He has taught the Islamic sciences online at https://t.co/10Xw2LmeXB, then at https://t.co/RLrT2o6fdL, then taught advanced Arabic grammar and rhetoric at Qasid Institute, and then joined Kalam Research & Media, where he worked for three years, designing, managing, and participating in research and education projects around the integration of modern analytic philosophy and science with traditional Islamic theology and logic.

In the summer of 2019, he founded @BasiraEducation to fill a gap in the religious education of Muslims in the modern world — his goal at Basira is to develop a deploy an original seminary-level curriculum that is grounded in the traditional Islamic sciences but fully integrates modern science and culture into an intelligent and God-centered worldview.

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Programming Update

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the upcoming CIK Talk, Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception, and Legacy, featuring the volume's co-editors, Dr. Arjan Post (University of Leuven, Netherlands) and Dr. Mehdi Berriah (Institut français du Proche-Orient, France), with Dr. Nazir Khan (McMaster University, Canada) serving as discussant, has been postponed until the Fall Semester.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. In shāʾ Allāh, a revised date will be announced in due course.

We look forward to hosting this important discussion and welcoming you to the event later this year.

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The Centre for Islamic Knowledge is pleased to participate in the @icna Convention 2026 in Baltimore. Visit us at Booth F69 to learn more about our academic programs, distinguished faculty, publications, conferences, and educational initiatives.

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The Centre for Islamic Knowledge (CIK) invites the community to take advantage of the 2026 @MACNational Convention, taking place from May 16–18, 2026, one of the largest annual Muslim gatherings in North America. A number of scholars and faculty affiliated with CIK will be presenting and participating throughout the convention, including:

- Dr. Ovamir Anjum — ADIL Program Faculty; Board of Advisors - https://t.co/oSfsK40vUP
- Dr. @YakoobAhmed0 — Foundations & ADIL Program Faculty - https://t.co/s8iQy5AhJu
- Dr. Sharif El-Tobgui — ADIL Program Faculty - https://t.co/biQZTOKwD5
- Dr. Abdalla Idris Ali — Board of Advisors - https://t.co/2DejrkOkfN
- Shaykh Zahid Abu Ghudda — Board of Advisors; ADIL Program Faculty - https://t.co/HVusoPKjVa
- Dr. Iqbal al-Nadwi — Resident Scholar - https://t.co/TqZzsIbj8V

We encourage the community to benefit from the convention’s programming.

Registration and additional details are available at: https://t.co/k6bBNSuT4s