COVID-19: Call to prayer gesture in heart of Europe

April 4, 2020

Nearly 100 mosques in Germany and the Netherlands on Friday rang out with the sound of the call to prayer, as a gesture of support for Muslims amid the coronavirus pandemic. The call to prayer (adhan) was chanted from mosques was chanted from mosques belonging to...

Free access to the significant amount on content for the study of Islam & the Middle East

April 10, 2020

Due to COVID-19 emergency some publishers are now offering free access to their content. These publishers offer significant amount on content...

Muslim minority doctors first to die on front line of UK pandemic

April 1, 2020

The United Kingdom is paying tribute to the first doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic who have died after contracting COVID-19. All four men were Muslim and had...

British Muslims are concerned about Islamist extremism and do trust the police, survey finds

April 2, 2020

The majority of British Muslims are concerned about Islamist extremism and support police along with the principles of the controversial...

Hundreds rally in US cities against anti-Muslim violence in Delhi

April 1, 2020

Hundreds of Indian Americans of different faiths rallied outside Indian consulates in major American cities on Friday evening to protest against the recent violence in Delhi that has...

Brill launches open access Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World

April 8, 2020

Brill has entered into a partnership with The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Museum to...

SIEF Working Group “Ethnology of Religion” 2020 Conference

6-9 September 2020 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

For religious worldviews and practices, nature is a revealing context for orienting humans to the questions regarding the cosmological origins of the universe, the meaning of the emergence...

End-of-Life Care (EoLC) and the Islamic Moral Tradition

20-22 October 2020 | CILE Center, Qatar

This seminar aims to critically address the key End-of-Life Care ethical questions, by engaging a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including those within the field of Islamic studies...

LUCIS Summer School: Philology & Manuscripts from the Muslim World

24 Aug - 4 Sep 2020 | Leiden University, Netherlands

This summer school is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who have an interest in handwritten materials, editing, and the tradition of editing in the Muslim world. It offers...

Postdoctoral Research & Outreach Associate in Islamic Art, Aesthetics & Material Culture

University of Cambridge | Deadline: 19 April 2020

The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research and Outreach Associate to design and conduct original research into...