Entries for December 2016
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2016-12-27
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Application Deadline: February 1, 2017
Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) at the University of Leeds invites applications from academically excellent candidates for several Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded PhD studentships commen...
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2016-12-27
1950 Views
Hindus and Muslims who have migrated to the United States in recent years are especially well-educated, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. On average, Hindus in the U.S. have nearly 16 years of schooling, significantly more than ...
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2016-12-26
2276 Views
ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion
Call for Session Proposals
Date: July 15-21, 2018
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline for Session Proposals: March 15, 2017
Current environmental, economic, soc...
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2016-12-25
2687 Views
Like some hyped up reality TV contestant, Muslims are in-your-face 24/7, whether you like us or not. Admittedly, we most often appear on UK screens via news bulletins; dying in conflict, being attacked by far-right extremists or shoved into a police ...
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2016-12-24
2989 Views
Al-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning is a full-time accredited private Islamic school, established in 1996, and situated in Southwest Houston, Texas and caters to a diverse population that travels from many different areas of the city. The school ...
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2016-12-24
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A suburb north of Detroit faces a federal lawsuit after a religious organization's proposal for a 20,500-square-foot mosque in a residential neighborhood was denied in 2015, with prosecutors saying it was discrimination. The U.S. Attorney's office fi...
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2016-12-23
1763 Views
Application Deadline: January 1, 2017
Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change invites applications for Visiting Fellowships for the 2017-2018 academic year. This fellowship provides opportunities for outstanding sch...
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2016-12-22
1812 Views
A group of British Muslim women distributed roses to the public on Wednesday, December 14, in the first Muslim response to Monday’s stabbings at a train station by an attacked who shouted death to Muslims.
“Making forest hill and the wor...
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2016-12-21
1962 Views
The 6th Executive Council Meeting of the term took place on Friday and Saturday, 2-3 December 2016 in Saint-Denis, Reunion. It was hosted by the Union des Associations Khodjas Shia Isna Ashri de la Reunion (UAKSIR). The first...
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2016-12-20
1923 Views
2016 Convention Theme
Celebrating the 15th Anniversary
Date: December 23-25, 2016
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building, Toronto, ON M5V 3L9, Canada
“Reviving the Islamic Spirit” convention is an attempt by the y...
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2016-12-19
2055 Views
The Islamic Education Center of Houston serves the community as a center for the Friday congregation, Islamic celebrations, community programs, and above all – a center for imparting knowledge about Islam and promoting Islamic values. A large p...
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2016-12-18
2377 Views
Call for Papers: Religion and the Rise of Populism: Migration, Radicalism and New Nationalisms
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2017
The editors of the journal Religion, State and Society are pleased to invite contributions to a spe...
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2016-12-17
2597 Views
A Film by Innerspeak
14 Rohingya refugee youth living in Ontario got together to save their people through theatre. Violencem. Murder. Crisis. Stateless. Refugee. Genocide. The most oppressed people on Earth. This is what you will find when you Goog...
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2016-12-16
1855 Views
Norwich has the highest proportion of residents describing themselves as having no religion, while Berlin has been called the ‘atheist capital of Europe’. But what about the rest of the world? And is such an assessment meaningful? Discove...
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2016-12-14
1685 Views
MP Iqra Khalid and MP Frank Baylis hosted a reception yesterday at the Sir John A McDonald Building to celebrate the contributions of Canadian Muslims and to stand against discrimination in all its forms. The event was attended by Members f...
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2016-12-13
2178 Views
Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane
By Daniel Nilsson DeHanas
Publisher: Oxford University Press (August 30, 2016)
The book addresses controversial issues of the integration of Muslim youth by placing them in context with other reli...
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2016-12-13
1532 Views
Germany's highest court ruled on Wednesday, December 7, that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school…Germany is in the grip of a heated public debate about the role of Islam in society as it seeks to ...
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2016-12-12
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Call for Papers
Date: June 29-July 1, 2017
Venue: Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Nador u. 11, Hungary
Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 15, 2017
Organized by: Center for Religious Studies
Since the emergence of the first his...
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2016-12-12
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Research Seminar by Al-Mahdi Institute
Date: December 15, 2016 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Al-Mahdi Institute, 60 Weoley Park Rd, Birmingham B29 6RB, UK
Cost: Free admission
Al-Mahdi Institute’s Research Seminars are a platform that ...
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2016-12-12
1672 Views
About 218 million of the United States’ roughly 245 million adults say they believe in God. Such deeply personal views might seem abstract or distant when expressed as large numbers, but this is not the only way to look at religious belief in t...
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2016-12-10
1622 Views
Amazon has apologized after selling doormats with Allah's name on them. Outraged Muslims said they were offended by the product which allowed people to wipe their feet on Allah's name. The retail giant has now axed the doormat and dog mat products an...
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2016-12-09
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Call for Papers
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 1, 2017
Organized by: Everett Community College, Everett, WA, US
Speculative fiction (SF) allows authors and readers to explore worlds that differ somehow from the one in which we currently liv...
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2016-12-08
2789 Views
Lecturer: Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Date: February 10-12, 2017
Venue: Manchester, UK
It's all fun and interesting to study classical theology, but at the end of the day those historical controversies are not the questions that are being discussed on ...
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2016-12-08
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Austria’s foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has called for an immediate ban on Islamic fundamentalists who distribute copies of the Koran, saying that the law needs to be changed to crack down on “Salafist campaigns – an expression of...
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2016-12-07
1866 Views
Edited by: Léon Buskens, Annemarie van Sandwijk
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (August 17, 2016)
The NISIS (Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies) publication “Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transf...
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2016-12-07
1981 Views
Advancing Islamic Studies through research, teaching and outreach at Stanford
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies is the central forum for the study of Islam and Muslim societies at Stanford University. We support research on Islam and Muslim soci...
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2016-12-07
1624 Views
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome’s Grand Mosque. Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women’s rights by Muslim imm...
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2016-12-06
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Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural international Classical Islamic World Book Prize (CIW). Based on the decision of an internationally renowned panel of scholars, the CIW will recognise three exceptional...
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2016-12-06
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Slovakia passed legislation on Wednesday to effectively block Islam from gaining official status as a religion in the near future in the latest sign of growing anti-Muslim sentiment across the European Union. The former communist state has fiercely r...
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2016-12-05
1819 Views
Call for Papers
Date: July 4-7, 2017
Venue: University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Organized by: International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR)
Submission Deadline: January 10, 2017
Religion’s role in conflict has been t...
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2016-12-05
1672 Views
Student Islamists are mounting a coordinated campaign to expand Muslim religious services in the high schools of Canada’s sixth largest city. So far, authorities are proving sympathetic, suspending a new policy meant to regulate student sermons...
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2016-12-04
1900 Views
Historic 2-Year Part-Time Diploma Program
By Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Registration Deadline 1: November 30, 2016
Registration Deadline 2: January 30, 2017
Cambridge Islamic College is offering a two-year foundational/intermediate level course in A...
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2016-12-03
2220 Views
Islamic Sciences of Nurturing and Development (ISNAD) is an education provider which aims to lead communities in Islamic education and learning which is up-to-date, acclimatized to the modern world, transformational, yet infused with the rich values ...
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2016-12-03
2177 Views
Islamic Peace Studies Initiative Inaugural Conference
Date: March 16-18, 2017
Organized by: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Dearborn
This inaugural academic conference will explore themes of peace in the Islamic tradition, considering topics...
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2016-12-03
1567 Views
On Monday, November 28th, 2016 Muslims leaders across Southern California met with LAPD and the FBI at the Islamic Center of Southern California to discuss the recent threatening letters that were sent to various mosques across California. Dr. Sayed ...
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2016-12-02
1628 Views
“We will sue to block it,” the New York Mayor said at New York City’s Cooper Union Monday, according to the New York Daily News. “We will use all the tools at our disposal to stand up for our people,” added de Blasi...
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2016-12-01
1454 Views
Unit Name: Chosen Prophet: Medinan Life
Level: Foundation
Duration: 10 weeks
Starting Date: December 3, 2016 @ 9:30 am
After the migration from Mecca to Medina, the Prophet (peace be upon him) initiated the first Islamic government, the basis of ...
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2016-12-01
1682 Views
A Toronto television journalist is believed to be Canada’s first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city’s major news broadcasters. Ginella Massa was asked to fill in on the anchor desk for CityNews’ 11pmbroadcast last ...
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