Established in Oxford in 2026, the ASI Research Centre for Islamic Studies is dedicated to advancing rigorous, faith-informed scholarship in the Islamic sciences and wider Islamic studies.
Rooted in the Islamic scholarly and moral tradition, its work encompasses research, writing, publication, translation and scholarly collaboration. It seeks to bring the intellectual resources of the Islamic tradition into serious engagement with contemporary questions, while maintaining a commitment to scholarly rigour and moral responsibility.
Shaykh Akram Nadwi serves as Founding Scholar, contributing to its academic direction and the development of its research and publication projects.
Research and Scholarly Projects
Research is developed across the Islamic sciences and related fields, with particular attention to the study, preservation and continued development of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Current areas of work include the Akram Nadwi Research Project, the Muhaddithat Project, work in Quranic studies and tafsir, and other research and publication initiatives.
The Akram Nadwi Research Project
The Akram Nadwi Research Project is a long-term initiative dedicated to preserving, organising, developing and making accessible the scholarship of Shaykh Akram Nadwi.
His work spans more than four decades of teaching, research and writing, including books, articles, lectures, Q&A, teaching materials and ongoing research. Much of this material has historically been dispersed across different languages, publications, platforms and archives.
The project is bringing this material together into a coherent scholarly and digital archive. Its work includes the preparation of new publications and translations, the preservation and organisation of existing material, the development of digital resources, and support for further research into Shaykh Akram’s scholarship.
AkramNadwi.com serves as the principal public platform for the project and is being developed as the central digital home for his writings, publications and wider scholarly work.
Relationship with Al-Salam Institute
The ASI Research Centre for Islamic Studies developed as an extension of the wider scholarly and educational work of Al-Salam Institute, which has provided structured teaching in Arabic and the Islamic sciences since its establishment in Oxford in 2006.
While Al-Salam is principally focused on teaching and structured education, the Research Centre extends this work into research, writing, publication, translation, archival development and advanced scholarly projects.
Shaykh Akram Nadwi serves as Principal of Al-Salam Institute and Founding Scholar of the ASI Research Centre, linking his longstanding work in teaching with its developing programme of research and scholarship.