The Art of Writing an Academic Article

Summary Writing Workshop: The Art of Writing an Academic Article

This workshop seeks to demystify the process of academic writing and to equip participants with the confidence and practical skills required to transform research into a publishable article.

  • Developing Research Questions
    • How to formulate a clear and compelling research question.
    • Selecting an appropriate body of literature to engage with.
    • Framing ideas to resonate within the academic field.
  • Structuring the Article
    • Constructing a logical and persuasive flow.
    • Crafting effective introductions, well-supported arguments, and impactful conclusions.
  • Enhancing Academic Style
  • Navigating the Publishing Process
    • Techniques for refining drafts and preparing them for submission.
    • Responding constructively to reviewer feedback.
    • Approaching journals with assurance and strategic insight.
  • Sustaining Academic Practice
    • Developing habits that support long-term success as a researcher and writer.
    • Understanding academic writing as a means of contributing meaningfully to one’s discipline, rather than merely fulfilling formal requirements.

The workshop will be interactive, offering participants opportunities to reflect on their own writing, pose questions, and leave with practical methods that can be immediately applied in their academic work.

To register, please submit your details via email to info@islamicliterarysociety.com. Kindly include your full name and email address. You may also provide a contact number (optional).

19th October 2025

11: am 16:00

The Zoom access link will be sent to registered participants two days prior to the commencement of the course, using the email address provided at the time of registration.

Instructor.

Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury is the Academic Director of the Centre for Islamic Knowledge. He studied Philosophy at Kings College London, completing it with the accompanying Associate of Kings College (AKC) award. He then travelled to Cairo to study the traditional Islamic Studies curricula at al-Azhar University. He returned to the UK to complete his MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with distinction.His doctoral dissertation was on the eminent Sufi hagiographer and theoretician Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (d. 412/1021), published as A Sufi Apologist of Nishapur: The Life and Thought of Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2019). He has published numerous academic articles in the fields of Islamic philosophy and theology focusing on ethics, metaphysics, logic and epistemology. His most recent book is Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (New York and Cairo: AUC Press, 2021), which is the first work in Islamic Studies to treat the topic within the analytic theology approach. Chowdhury was the lead researcher on the project Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology, funded under a John Templeton Foundation grant award in association with Cambridge Muslim College and Aziz Foundation, exploring new vistas in Islamic epistemology. Chowdhury is a past lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Birkbeck, University of London. He runs the Islamic Analytic Theology website, and his academic work can be found on his Academia.edu page.He is currently the executive editor of the Journal of Islamic Philosophy and the Ihya’ Journal of Islamic Thought, a research scholar at the at the Ibn Rushd Centre for Excellence and Research, a lecturer at the Cambridge Muslim College, a senior instructor at the Whitethread Institute, and chair of the Islamic Literary Society.