Entries for November 2017
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2017-11-26
1910 Views
Organized by Women and Family Research Center (WRC)
Date: March 3-6, 2018
Venue: Qom, Iran
Gender, though has always been crucial in shaping societies, now there are much clear views of the ways in which gender and society interact. Misconceptions...
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2017-11-26
1941 Views
A 20th-Anniversary Report
Edited by: Farah Elahi and Omar Khan
Publisher: Runnymede (November 2017)
Colleagues may be interested in the launch of this new Runnymede Trust anniversary report on Islamophobia, which ‘brings together varied pers...
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2017-11-25
1232 Views
Worldviews in Creating Meaning and Purpose for Learning
Call for Papers
Date: June 11-13, 2018
Venue: University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Proposal Submission Deadline: Dec. 15, 2017
The sixth biennial conference of the European...
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2017-11-24
1455 Views
by Adam Possamai
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (November 28, 2017)
This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all as...
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2017-11-21
1306 Views
Date: December 10, 2017
Venue: P21 Gallery, 21 Chalton St, Kings Cross, London NW1 1JD, UK
Last year’s Islamophobia conference discussed the creation of a police state in the UK. While the policies aimed at surveilling, criminalizing and extr...
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2017-11-21
1238 Views
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: December 17, 2017
Salary Range: £39,992 - £50,618 per annum
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge wis...
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2017-11-20
1647 Views
Date: December 11, 2017
Venue: The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
The round table brings together five scholars of the Qur’an and early Islamic documents on the occasion of the publication of Asma...
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2017-11-20
1260 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, expressed support for students at a Virginia high school who were recently threatened with suspension for praying together bet...
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2017-11-19
1303 Views
University of Helsinki
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: December 12, 2017
Founded in 1640, the University of Helsinki is one of the best multidisciplinary research universities in the world. The University of Helsinki is an internationa...
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2017-11-19
1322 Views
France strictly regulates religious expression, and building new places of worship for the 5 million Muslims is a controversial issue for the secular country. After fighting between Muslim worshipers and French authorities in a Paris suburb, th...
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2017-11-19
1339 Views
Date: February 19-21, 2018
Venue: Kents Hill, Milton Keynes, UK
Themes: Education, Media, Pilgrimage, Politics, Ritual, Spirituality
Bringing historical perspective to the contemporary role of religion in the public sphere, this conference w...
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2017-11-18
1440 Views
Challenges and Opportunities of The 4th Industrial Revolution
Date: December 2-3, 2017
Venue: Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
The breadth and diversity of research areas concerning Islamic Studies and Civilizations is a testi...
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2017-11-18
1323 Views
The International Conference on “Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East,” was held in Athens on 30 and 31 October 2017, was a major international event taking place at a time when developments in the ...
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2017-11-16
1290 Views
Theological, Historical and Cultural Cross-pollination in the Eastern Mediterranean of Late Antiquity
Date: December 7-8, 2017
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Admission: Free and ope...
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2017-11-15
1374 Views
Uncovering an Important Genre of Islamic Scholarship
A Workshop organized by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Venue: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg, Germany
Date: 30 November - 2 December 2017
Ḥadīth commentat...
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2017-11-15
1393 Views
The number of assaults against Muslims in the United States rose significantly between 2015 and 2016, easily surpassing the modern peak reached in 2001, the year of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of&nb...
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2017-11-14
1354 Views
At the last census in 2011, there were 2.7 million Muslims in the UK, or 4.8% of the population. This has risen quite rapidly from only 105,000 in 1960. The previous census in 2001 showed a Muslim population of 1.6 million. Islam was theref...
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2017-11-13
1929 Views
Founded in the thirteenth century in southern France, the Order of Preachers quickly took interest in Middle East, where the Order soon settled: in Constantinople, Tunis, Baghdad, and later in Mossul. Dominican masters in Theology owe their...
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2017-11-13
1565 Views
The honor was bestowed on Shaikh Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyeb by the “Muslim 500”, an annual publication which ranks the most influential Muslims in the world. The Muslim 500 is compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre...
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2017-11-13
1260 Views
Though no exact figures exist, the Muslim community in the Czech Republic is small, between 5,000 and 20,000, or less than 0.02 percent of the total population. Just a portion lives in Prague.
Yet Islam has become a hot-button topic in Cze...
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2017-11-12
1396 Views
Challenges and Opportunities
Part of the Islamophobia Awareness Month (iAM)
Date: November 29, 2017
Venue: Finsbury Park Mosque, 7-11 St Thomas's Rd, London, UK
Supported by: University of Birmingham | University of Sussex&nbs...
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2017-11-12
1624 Views
American Herald Tribune
November 9 ,2017
An Estimated 20 Million Muslims Converge on the Iraqi City of Karbala for the Largest Anti-Terror Rally.
The marchers are said to come from over 60 countries, and most of them have marched all the way to ...
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2017-11-10
1410 Views
Atheist regimes dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe until the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991. Today, however, many of the governments in the region have an official state religion or an unoffi...
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2017-11-10
1569 Views
The rampage caused by radicalized groups in Southwest Asia and their atrocities have affected millions of people, most of the victims being Muslims.
Therefore, Islamic Research and Information Center has prepared a revelatory article about the so ca...
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2017-11-09
1248 Views
Dr Mohammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, general secretary of the Muslim World League visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland on 9 November, where he discussed with WCC leaders both the meaning and impo...
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2017-11-09
1332 Views
Twice the size of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, yet nowhere near as well known, the Arbaeen comes this year at a moment of victory for Shia Muslims over the extremist Sunnis of Isis. In the final part of his series, Patrick Cockburn re...
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2017-11-08
2374 Views
And Why You've Never Heard of It?
10th November 2017 Arbaeen Day, 20 million plus people will be walking 50 miles...
FIND OUT WHY?
World's Bi...
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2017-11-07
1185 Views
Call for Proposals
Date: June 27-28, 2018
Venue: Paris, France
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2017
The politics of Islam in Europe and North America has become critically important across political science and related disciplines. The...
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2017-11-06
3339 Views
Winter Semester 2017 Registration
Professional Course on
The Cultural Interaction between Islam and Western Societies
Registration Deadline: December 5, 2017
The Islamic R...
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2017-11-06
1401 Views
Call for Papers
Date: May 9-11, 2018
Venue: UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 1, 2018
The Center for Phenomenological Studies (CEP), together with the Department of Philosophy of the Istanbul 29 Mayis Uni...
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2017-11-05
1321 Views
Call for Panels and Papers
Date: April 9-11, 2018
Venue: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, UK
Submission Deadline: December 3, 2017
Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (April 2014), L...
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2017-11-04
1399 Views
Call for Papers
Date: April 17-19, 2018
Venue: Malta (93km south of Sicily and 288km north of Africa)
The Conference on Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art started in Valencia, Spain (2016) and, following its success, it is now being reconvened....
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2017-11-03
1378 Views
Call for Sessions and Papers
Date: August 8-11, 2018
Venue: University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Deadline for Panel and Paper proposals: December 4, 2017
The Center for Media, Religion and Culture and the College of Med...
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2017-11-02
1226 Views
High teas, workshops and role-plays are used to help Muslim women identify and deal with legal issues. The Home Gatherings are unique legal advice and networking events, delivered by 20 women leaders who completed the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre’s&...
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2017-11-01
1393 Views
The Muslim population in the United States is younger than the U.S. population at large. In fact, while Millennials make up 32% of all U.S. adults, they account for roughly half of American Muslim adults (52%). Muslim Millennials were born from 1981 ...
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2017-11-01
1282 Views
While thousands of Muslims marched through London and different parts of Europe to protest against ISIS and terrorism and to commemorate the event of Karbala on the Day of Ashura, the Union of Islamic Student Associations in Europe participated the e...
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