Acknowledgements

Since the inception of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort) in 2013, the team members express their gratitude to all those numerous colleagues and friends who participated in their activities and shared their knowledge, ideas, suggestions and comments on how to improve Co-IRIS. These activities include the following:

  1. Section on “Critical Relations between IR and Islam” at the 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations held on 18–21 September 2013 in Warsaw, Poland.
  2. Panels at the 13th IR conference of the Middle East Technical University held on 25–27 June 2014 in Ankara, Turkey.
  3. Panel on “Islamic Perspectives on Theory and Praxis in IR” at the 4th World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies held on 18–22 August 2014 in Ankara, Turkey.
  4. Panel at the XII Conference of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies held on 16–17 January 2015 in Venice, Italy.
  5. Panels at the International Studies Association’s 56th Annual Convention held on 18–21 February 2015 in New Orleans, USA.
  6. Workshop on “Worlding beyond the Clash of Civilizations: An Agenda for an International Relations – Islam Discourse” at the European Workshop in International Studies held on 6–8 April 2016 in Tübingen, Germany.
  7. Section on “Islam in World Affairs: Politics and Paradigms” at the 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations held on 13–16 September 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.
  8. Symposium on “Islam and International Relations” at the 5th World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies held on 16–22 July 2018 in Seville, Spain.

Nassef Manabilang Adiong acknowledges the Office of the Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman, through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development, for funding support through the PhD Incentive Award.

Raffaele Mauriello writes, “I would like to thank Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi for his support during my Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Faculty of World Studies of the University of Tehran in the course his tenure as Dean of the Faculty.”

Deina Abdelkader writes, “In memory of my academic mentor Dr. Ted Robert Gurr. Thank you for instigating my academic curiosity and for all your support. I would like to thank Marina Ottaway and Tarek Ismail for their continued support and guidance. Last but not least, I thank William Granara for his endless support and insight. Thanks to my co-editors Nassef Manabilang Adiong and Raffaele Mauriello, also to all the contributors to this volume.”

All throughout these years, the Co-IRIS team is very thankful to Mr. Hany Bardissi for building its website (www.coiris.org) and giving the team the necessary web presence to connect its project to the world.