A journal About Cultural And Civilizational Interaction
BRIIFS is intended to provide a venue for interdisciplinary academic inquiry into all fields of the humanities and social sciences that bear upon cultural or civilizational interaction such as anthropology, archaeology, fine arts, history, literature, politics, and sociology, and to situate cultural contact in a global context.
The Changing Religious Landscape: Implications for Civil Society and Foreign Affairs
[First §] In 1999, the sociologist Peter Berger noted that: “the world is as furiously religious as it ever was, and in…
Droits des Non Musulmans dans la Société Musulmane
[First §] En établissant les droits de l’Autre, l’Islam prescrit au musulman de respecter, dans son comportement, les adeptes des autres religions…
Lessons for Religious Dialogue from Philosophical Disagreement: Alston Schellenberg on Religious Commitment
A disagreement between two philosophers, William Alston and J.L. Schellenberg, on the matter of religious commitment serves to exemplify an important difference…
Muhammad Iqbal On the Spirit of Islamic Culture
[First §] Iqbal states that the essence of “Tauhid” ‒ meaning the “oneness of God” ‒ is human unity, human equality and…
A Phoenician Past and Present
The Phoenicians have long been recognized as one of the major cultures of the Mediterranean’s Iron Age period, noted for their maritime…
Of Ostrich Eggs and Kings: The Topos and Mimesis of International Relationships in the Late Bronze Age
The purpose of this paper is to explore aspects of international interaction dur- ing the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean,…
Identity, Culture and Religion on Medieval Islam’s Caucasian Frontier
This article considers the relationship between Christians and Muslims in Caucasia in the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, with special reference to the…
Pirenne, Muhammad and Bohemond: Before Orientalism
Henri Pirenne’s Mahomet et Charlemagne (1937) is one of the seminal works of history written in the twentieth century. His argument that…
Call for papers
The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies is dedicating a special number of BRIIFS (Volume 20) to publish the proceedings of the Conference “Arab Non-Muslim contribution to Islamic Civilisation Heritage”, which was held in Amman, Jordan on 14th February 2024, organised by RIIFS and IFPO with the support of the French Embassy in Amman. This special issue is edited by Mehdi Berriah (Ifpo) and Renee Hattar (RIIFS).
Deadline for submission is 30 November 2024.
Read the submission guidelines.