Book Review: IRI: Forty Years of Islamic Studies​

The forty-one years of Islamic Studies fill several bookshelves in any library. Since 1962, the Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan, has published four issues of the journal each year, leading to a veritable corpus of research and scholarship.

The journal was founded by the Islamic Research Institute, Pakistan, which came into existence on the basis of Article 197-(1) of the 1956 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan which had provided for the setting up of an organization for Islamic research and instruction in advanced studies to assist in the reconstruction of Muslim society on a truly Islamic basis. Established in 1960 under Statutory Notification by the Government of Pakistan, the Islamic Research Institute merged with the International Islamic University in 1985. 

Journal of Islam & Science, Vol. 1 (Winter 2003) No. 2​

Basit Kareem Iqbal

Basit Iqbal is Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at McMaster University.

Elma Ruth Harder