Popular Themes in Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies

As part of a collaboration between Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies and Oxford University, Dr Masooda Bano, research lecturer at Oxford Department of International Development, gave a series of talks. The title of her first lecture was the Popular Themes in Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies. The main purpose of the talk was to present from the perspective of an Oxford academician what the influential themes are in the study of Muslim societies and how they have been studied in western academia. Dr. Bano emphasized that giving this lecture in a place like Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies has a special significance, in terms of comparing the research preferences and exploring the opportunities of collaboration between the two institutes in mutually interested subfields.