Entries for October 2018
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2018-10-31
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Although Germany's debate on Islam has a long history, it took on greater intensity in 2010 with the then German President Christian Wulff's momentous declaration that "Islam belongs to Germany". As if to counter Wulff's argument, Germany's Interior ...
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2018-10-26
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Call for Applications
American Islamic College, Chicago, IL, USA
Application Deadline: December 30, 2018
The MA degree program is designed to provide students with a rigorous background in both traditional and analytical approaches to Islamic Stud...
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2018-10-25
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Inside the Soul of Islam
IIDR held its Winter Student Program in Islamic studies this November. In this unique and eye-opening course, personal coach and bestselling author of “Inside the Soul of Islam”, Mamoon Yusaf, introduced a simple...
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2018-10-25
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The University of Edinburgh
Duration: 48 months
Degree type: Masters
Study mode: Full-time
Fees: £18,800
The University of Edinburgh has a long and well-established reputation for teaching Islamic about Islam and the history, culture and ...
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2018-10-24
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The University of Michigan’s International Institute (II) has established a new center focused on the study of global Islamic culture and the study of Muslim societies worldwide: The Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC). The center has received...
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2018-10-24
1224 Views
The new University of Minnesota program will include an Islamic studies minor.
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2018-10-23
1265 Views
Call for Papers
Date: April 26-27, 2019
Venue: University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018
The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for a cross-disciplinary exploration and re-examination of t...
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2018-10-23
1240 Views
By Ladan Akbarnia, Venetia Porter, Fahmida Suleman, William Greenwood, Zeina Klink-Hoppe, Amandine Merat
Publisher: Thames & Hudson (November 6, 2018)
This lavishly illustrated history explores the Islamic world, through superb art objects and ...
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2018-10-22
1305 Views
A Summer School in Granada, Spain
Date: June 16-22, 2019
Venue: Granada, Spain
Application Deadline: February 5, 2019
Critical Muslim Studies is inspired by a need for opening up a space for intellectually rigorous and socially committed explorat...
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2018-10-22
1074 Views
Many cite practical or personal reasons, rather than lack of belief, for staying home.
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2018-10-21
1138 Views
Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe are confronted with rising xenophobia, hate crimes, and policies that are curtailing their right to religious practices, leaders of these communities said at the first plenary meeting of the European Muslim Jew...
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2018-10-17
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Date: March 25-29, 2019
Venue: Berlin State Library, Potsdamer Straße 33, Berlin, Germany
Application Deadline: November 15, 2018.
Public Keynote Lecture by: Dr. Élise Franssen (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Staatsbibliothek...
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2018-10-16
1195 Views
Journal: RESET (recherches en sciences sociales sur internet / social science research on the internet)
Edited by Fabienne Duteil-Ogata (Clare EA4596, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne / IIAC [EHESS/CNRS]) and Isabelle Jonveaux (CéSor, EHE...
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2018-10-16
1284 Views
Studies in Muslim-Christian Cooperation
Edited by Tom Bamat, Myla Leguro, Neil Bolton and Atalia Omer
Publisher: Catholic Relief Services (April 2017)
On April 26, 2017, Catholic Relief Services released a book examining Muslim-Christian peacemaki...
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2018-10-15
1333 Views
Based in Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project that connects the academic study of Islamophobia with the public square.
Through its website...
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2018-10-14
1236 Views
Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
By Jennifer Selby, Amelie Barras and Lori G. Beaman
Publisher: UBC Press (September 2018)
Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation &nda...
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2018-10-13
1207 Views
The Association of Islamic Theology of Isfahan Seminary organized a 3-day summer school on Analysis of Shia Studies in the West on 5th to 7th September, 2018 in Isfahan, Iran.
The program was attended by scholars and graduate students from both semi...
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2018-10-13
1187 Views
Call for Papers
Date: June 25 - 27, 2019
Venue: Munster (Westphalia), Germany
Organizers: Dr. Sarah Demmrich (University of Munster) & Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel (University of Siegen)
Abstract Deadline: January 15, 2019
The concept of religio...
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2018-10-11
1162 Views
Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in Western Europe
By Benjamin Bruce
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (August 25, 2018)
Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
Concentrates on the similar capacity of Turkey and Mo...
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2018-10-09
1457 Views
Provided by Harvard Divinity School
Instructor: Diane L. Moore
Duration: 8 weeks
Effort: 4 to 8 hours per week
Level: Introductory
Explore the diverse and complex roles that religions play in both promoting and mitigating violence.
In this cour...
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2018-10-08
1186 Views
Call for Applications
Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, USA
Application Deadline: December 20, 2018
Hampden-Sydney College, Department of History, invites applications for a tenure-track full-time position in Islamic World or Middle Eastern histor...
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2018-10-07
1131 Views
By Prof Stefan Heidemann
Date: Bi-weekly, Wednesday, 4 to 6 pm CET (Oct 31, 2018 - Jan 23, 2019)
The Webinar Initiative in Islamic Material Culture offers a webinar: “State Authority, Administrative Structures and Its Reflection on Coinage&rd...
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2018-10-06
1179 Views
Date: March 25-26, 2019
Venue: The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK
This conference seeks to address the question how strictly observant religious groups or "fundamentalists" (Harding 2001) challenge two basic principles within contemporary societies...
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2018-10-05
1550 Views
Volume 7 of International Handbooks of Religion and Education (IHRE)
Editors: Holger Daun and Reza Arjmand
Publisher: Springer International Publishing (June 20, 2018)
The globalization and the migration of Muslims into new areas of the globe, has...
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2018-10-05
1230 Views
Muslim women in the West have been battling inaccurate stereotypes for ages. In the post-Sept. 11 era, Muslim women have come to be seen as one-dimensional figures in need of saving by the “West” and lacking dynamism or the ability to act...
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2018-10-04
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Relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough of male domination at the mosque and are setting up their own. From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a handful of female mosques now cater to ...
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2018-10-01
1101 Views
The Kawthar Learning Circle (KLC) held its Social Wilayah Summer Retreat from 3-6 August 2018 at the Cap-Saint-Jacques regional park in Montreal, Canada. The Social Wilayah Summer Retreat has become a yearly tradition among the KLC family, as an oppo...
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