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Graduate Certificate Program
UCLA's Graduate Certificate Program in Global Islam & Muslims begins its inaugural year.
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Lecture Series: Sites of Encounter—Muslim Cities in the Middle Ages
Across the first half of 2026, the ISP will offer a series of online lectures for middle and high school teachers who teach about the premodern Middle East.
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Postcards from UCLA Library Special Collections’ on Exhibit
Librarians and staff of Special Collections generously facilitated a hands-on Islamic codicology and paleography course, taught by Associate Professor Luke Yarbrough.
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About Us
The UCLA Islamic Studies program, founded in the late 1950’s, is among the oldest of such programs in the country. The program is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Islam and global Muslim communities. Students work with affiliated faculty whose regional specializations include North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia and whose interests span the rise of Islam up to the modern period. Islamic Studies courses are offered across academic fields and disciplines including history, law, Arabic, comparative literature, anthropology, sociology, study of religion, philosophy, and art and art history. The Ph.D. program in Islamic Studies is...
Learn More About UsFaculty Publications
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- Impostures
- NYU Press, 2020
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- Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
- Cambridge University Press, 2013
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- Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
- Indiana University Press, 2013
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- The Sword of Ambition
- NYU Press, 2016
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- Al Ma’mun
- Oxford: OneWorld Books, 2005
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- Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought
- Palgrave, 2013
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- Reasoning with God
- Rowan and Littlefield, 2014
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- The Search for Beauty in Islam
- Rowman and Littlefield, 2005