Entries for '2016'
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2017-07-12
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A Study in Ethics and Law
By Mairaj U. Syed
Publisher: Oxford University Press (November 17, 2016)
Series: Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurist...
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2017-07-07
1743 Views
Case Studies on Islam
Edited by Ines Weinrich
Publisher: Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) (2016)
Performing Religion investigates the relationship between texts, actors, and contexts in the study of Muslim devotion. Research in Islamic Studies to date...
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2017-05-23
1780 Views
New Diversities, Volume 18, No. 1, 2016
Published by Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
New Diversities is an international, peer reviewed, scholarly and professional journal, published by the Max Planck Institute ...
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2016-11-25
2102 Views
Leiden Studies in Islam and Society (LSIS) Series, Volume 5
Edited by Umar Ryad
Publisher: Brill (October 2016)
Collections: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017
The present volume focuses on the political per...
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2016-11-18
1773 Views
Call for Papers
Date: June 12-13, 2017
Venue: Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2016
Organized by: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, the Migration Ins...
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2016-11-17
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Date: December 17, 2016 @ 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Venue: Shalimar Banquets, 280 W. North Ave., Addison, IL 60101, US
Registration: FREE Admission. Online Registration is required.
This Seerah Conference is about L...
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2016-11-05
1690 Views
Date: November 14, 2016 @ 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue: Healey Family Student Center, Tondorf Rd, Washington, DC 20007, USA
The position of Jesus in the Qur’an is among the most contentious areas in Muslim-Christian dialogue. Many Christian scholars ...
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2016-11-04
2228 Views
Edited by Sabine Schmidtke
Publisher: Oxford University Press (March 31, 2016)
Oxford Handbooks Series
Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been ach...
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2016-11-02
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Months after opening Scandinavia’s first female-led mosque in Copenhagen, many questions still surround the worshiping house, with some praising it as a pioneer movement and others criticizing it as unnecessary. “It was fantastic and very...
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2016-11-01
2130 Views
Call for papers
Submission Deadline: November 10, 2016
Publisher: MacroWorld Publishing Co.
Editor-in-Chief: Julian Kunnie, The University of Arizona, USA
Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture is a refereed journal dedicated ...
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2016-11-01
1934 Views
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has said that from next year it will offer an alternative to the highly controversial Prevent counter-extremism program.
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2016-10-31
1919 Views
Syrians in Germany say many of the country's Arab mosques are more conservative than those at home. Over two months, a dozen Syrians in six places of worship in three cities told Reuters they were uncomfortable with very conservative messages in Arab...
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2016-10-29
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Date: April 24-25, 2017
Venue: De Montfort University, the Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Organizers:
- Dr Rajnaara Akhtar, De Montfort University, Leicester
- Prof. Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam ISSR
Non-state registered Mu...
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2016-10-27
1687 Views
Call for Papers
Date: July 14-15, 2017
Venue: Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HD, UK
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 16, 2016
The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society (OHS) in conjunction with Newman University a...
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2016-10-26
1788 Views
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium.
The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Ar...
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2016-10-25
2309 Views
MEND (Muslim Engagement & Development) is a not for profit company working towards enhancing the active engagement of British Muslim communities in our national life, particularly in the fields of politics and the media.
MEND aims to achieve thi...
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2016-10-24
1994 Views
The revelation of an alleged domestic terrorism plot to kill Somali immigrants in southwest Kansas serves as a glaring illustration of what experts say is a growing concern. Across the country, they say, anti-government extremists are shift...
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2016-10-23
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Hundreds of Muslims have staged a mass prayer outside the Rome's Colosseum in protest against the closure of mosques in Italy. An estimated 1.6 million Muslims live in Italy, meaning it has the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe. Yet there are only eight official mosques in the country.
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2016-10-22
1777 Views
Application Closing Date: November 8, 2016
The LAWALISI project (an ERC Advanced award) is looking to recruit two postdoctoral researchers with a focus in pre-modern Imami Shi’i law, particularly the formative and classical periods. These two-...
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2016-10-21
3947 Views
Call for Papers for Vol. 4 No. 2
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2016
Publication Date: December 31, 2016
Publisher: the American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD)
Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture is a peer reviewed ...
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2016-10-21
1745 Views
An FBI-led program to establish “shared responsibility committees” to intervene at an early stage to prevent or counteract radicalization was canceled. The committees would have included mental health workers, clergy and counselors in local communities.
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2016-10-13
1626 Views
Semester 1: Speaker Series 2016
Topic: Ahl-al-Bayt, To Love Or Not To Love?
Date: October 26, 2016
Venue: Student Central Lecture Theatre (SC 0.51), Student Central, Bradford University, Richmond Rd, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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2016-10-12
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BBC World Service commissioned a documentary to follow the Cambridge Muslim College 2015-16 Diploma students to Rome and the Vatican. Some of the brightest and best students of Islam in Britain round off their education at the Cambridge Muslim Colleg...
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2016-10-11
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Date: October 21, 2016 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Venue: The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
This exciting one-day event at the University of Birmingham looks to explore - and indeed celebrate - the role and place of Muslims ...
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2016-10-10
2042 Views
A recent study by Pew found that a record near-half of all refugees that entered the United States in FY2016 were Muslim, marking the highest number of Muslim refugees recorded since religious self-reporting data became available 14 years ago.
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2016-10-09
1736 Views
Faith-based organizations and religious leaders must be included in efforts to address the challenges of human trafficking and forced migration, representatives of the United Nations, international organizations, Member States and civil society have ...
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2016-10-08
1712 Views
Date: October 30, 2016
Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue: Finsbury Park Mosque, 7 Saint Thomas's Road, London N4 2QH, UK
Organized by: MAB London South
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) invite people to a workshop on “Misconceptions...
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2016-10-06
1791 Views
By The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (ISMC) and Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC)
DATE: November 3-4, 2016
Venue: The Aga Khan University, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2DA, UK
The inter...
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2016-10-06
1717 Views
The chief cleric of Cairo’s prestigious mosque and university, H.E. Professor Dr Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar al Sharif, has decried the present-day “civilizational crisis” of poverty and insecurity and called fo...
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2016-10-05
2131 Views
During Muharram and Safar the #HussainSavesLives campaign is encouraging Shias to give blood in the name of Imam Hussain (as). The story and sacrifice of Imam Hussain (as) and the message he taught is one we should continue to spread, not ...
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2016-10-03
2102 Views
At the Islamic Center of Passaic County, which draws about 2,000 people each Friday for communal prayers, the talk is about how this year is different. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, people of other faiths in the surrounding community were...
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2016-09-17
1780 Views
Dedicated Q&A Session, Book Reading and Yasmin Mogahed Live Interview: A Sacred Conversation
Taught for the 1st Time by Yasmin Mogahed in London!
Date: November 11, 2016 @ 18:30-21:30 pm
Venue: Logan Hall, Institute of Education...
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2016-09-14
1762 Views
Quantifying and Examining Religion's Contributions to American Society
Date: September 22, 2016 @ 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, 3307 M St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
co-sponsored by: Baylor Insti...
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2016-09-13
2304 Views
American Islamic Outreach Foundation are pleased to announce that the Quran stand Project is going full force. They have 26 Qurans Stands in and around Charlotte. Each stand is equipped with free information about Islam. Free Qurans in both Engl...
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2016-09-11
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The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on their religion, bringing new attention to what educators and advocates call a growing problem in publ...
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2016-09-10
1933 Views
An imam of a mosque in New York City and his associate shot dead while strolling following afternoon prayers. A presidential candidate calling for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States. Muslim women harassed and phy...
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2016-09-01
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Americans look for good sermons, warm welcome
About half of U.S. adults have looked for a new religious congregation at some point in their lives, most commonly because they have moved. And when they search for a new house of worship, a new Pew Rese...
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2016-08-31
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In the short film Hijabi World, Rutgers University students—specifically, Muslim women who observe hijab—talk about the day-to-day challenges of wearing a headscarf. “Sometimes you itch in your own skin,” says one woman n...
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2016-08-30
2232 Views
Governments have imposed their own rules against religion throughout history.
Religion around the world is on the decline. For the first time ever, Norway now has more people who do not believe in God than do - with 39 per cent of a...
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2016-08-29
2039 Views
Hoping to boost recruiting of Muslim women, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is allowing its officers to wear hijabs as part of their uniforms, the government said Tuesday. "The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently approved thi...
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2016-08-27
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At an emotional funeral service for a New York City imam and his assistant who were gunned down on a Queens street, one friend of the victims took the microphone and demanded that the city install security cameras outside mosques citywide to help pro...
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2016-08-23
1864 Views
Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against “radical Islamic terror,” repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls — including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrant...
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2016-08-21
1821 Views
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practiced in a way that respected the constitution. More than a million people fleeing war and pover...
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2016-08-20
1930 Views
45th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS)
Date: October 8, 2016
Venue: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, US
Organizer: North American Association of Islamic and ...
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2016-08-19
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Figures released in July by Destatis, the government's statistics agency, showed that more than 2.1 million people migrated to Germany in 2015.
More than 33,000 migrants who are supposed to be deported are still in Germany and are being cared for by...
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2016-08-19
1893 Views
Two German associations of judges have called for a headscarf ban on judges and lawyers, arguing that the measure is required to ensure neutrality in court.
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2016-08-17
2012 Views
CoEJ Leadership Development Program 2016
Date: 17-18 September and 1-2 October 2016
Venue: Harben House, Tickford St, Newport Pagnell MK16 9EY, UK
Application Form Submission Deadline: September 2, 2016
The Council of E...
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2016-08-17
1979 Views
Parliamentary report says Muslim women face more discrimination and unemployment than any other cultural or ethnic group.
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2016-08-16
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A Historical Understanding of a New Community
Date: September 17, 2016 @ 9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Venue: Cambridge Muslim College, 14 St Paul's Rd, Cambridge CB1 2EZ, UK
Organizer: Cambridge Muslim College
Cambridge Muslim College is pleased ...
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2016-08-16
1942 Views
A leading French Muslim organization is to create a foundation to finance the country’s mosques, possibly through levies on halal food, in a bid to curb religious funding by radical Islamists.
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2016-08-15
1824 Views
No hijab-wearing players are present on the basketball courts at the Rio Olympics, for instance ― and it’s not for lack of qualified players. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has long prohibited athletes from wearing “equipment that may cause injury to other players.” For some reason, FIBA deems hijabs to fall into that category, but a growing body of athletes and advocacy organizations are working to change that.
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2016-08-02
2538 Views
Date: July 19–September 26 (weekdays only)
Venue: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, US
Since 1892, more than sixty exhibitions related to Islamic art have...
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2016-07-31
2479 Views
A Training Conference for Teachers of the New GCSE Religious Studies, Islam - First Examination 2018
The Al-Khoei Foundation in London held a conference for teachers of the new GCSE Religious Studies focusing on teaching Islam.
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2016-07-31
2164 Views
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. Indeed, if current demographic trends continue, the number of Muslims is expected to exceed the number of Christians by the end of this century and the number of Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the world's population from now until 2050.
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2016-07-28
2363 Views
Application Deadline: August 19, 2016
CMC is delighted to announce the recruiting for three new positions as part of the recently launched Four-Year Program in Islamic Studies. Applications from scholars in Islamic Studies to apply are invited in th...
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2016-07-27
2757 Views
Open Theology journal invites groups of researchers, conference organizers etc. to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered as topical issues for vol. 2017.
Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journ...
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2016-07-27
1898 Views
Muslim leaders in the United States have begun to register a million voters to help combat Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims.
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2016-07-26
2150 Views
American Islamic Outreach has been working with local Muslim Business to set up Quran Kiosks and Stands.
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2016-07-25
2304 Views
Diploma in Usul al-Deen is a unique program dealing with the fundamentals of Islam at an extraordinarily deep level. The program consists of courses on the pillars of Islam as well as dawah to help encapsulate and present the fundamentals to the peop...
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2016-07-25
6464 Views
Here are five facts about the size and makeup of the Muslim population in Europe based on the Pew Research Center’s most recent population estimates.
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2016-07-24
1902 Views
Three Collaborating Research Fellowships /Postdocs on the Theme “Religion and Migration: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy”
Application Deadline: September 15, 2016
Uppsala University is an international research un...
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2016-07-24
2145 Views
The Australian TV presenter Sonia Kruger has called for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia, agreeing that “the more Muslims we import, the more danger we are in.”
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2016-07-21
2776 Views
Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought
Islam in the 21st Century: Challenges & Opportunities for Social Work with Muslims
Call for Papers
Deadline: 15 August 2016
Guest Editor: Dr. Altaf Husain, Howard Un...
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2016-07-20
2107 Views
The Jewish Museum Berlin invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the framework of the Jewish-Islamic Forum which includes the history of Jews in the Arab-Muslim world, debates and dialogs on current relations between Jews and Muslims both within and outside Israel, etc.
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2016-07-20
2162 Views
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government announced that Goldsmiths, University of London lecturer Dr Aminul Hoque, a Bangladeshi Muslim, has been appointed as a Trustee for Royal Museums Greenwich. Dr Hoque’s position is voluntary and runs for four years.
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2016-07-19
2555 Views
Rep. John Bennett, R-Sallisaw, who in the past has called Islam "a cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out" has proposed an interim study on radical Islam, Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the radicalization process.
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2016-07-18
2028 Views
Data from the Pew Research Center has revealed the youngest and oldest religious groups in the United States. U.S. Muslims in the survey have a median age of 33 and about four-in-ten Muslim adults in the U.S. are under the age of 30. The average age within Judaism is 50 years old, Catholics (49 years old), Orthodox Christians (40 years old), Buddhists (39 years old), Hindus (33 years old) and the median age of the entire U.S. population is 46 years old.
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2016-07-16
2376 Views
Despite heated campaign rhetoric and the Orlando shooting, new polls show that the American public’s views of both Islam and Muslims have become more favorable. Here’s why.
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2016-07-16
2379 Views
President Barack Obama clobbered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday for suggesting that America should deport Muslims who profess a belief in Islamic Sharia law, telling a gathering of diplomats in Washington that the idea is 'repugnant.'
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2016-07-13
2547 Views
JIHAD: A Story of the others is a 2015 documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan. The film is produced by Khan's production company Fuuse.
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2016-07-13
2488 Views
Famous German journalist Martin Lejeune has announced his reversion to Islam, pronouncing shahada, the declaration of faith, in front of hundreds of Muslims.
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2016-07-12
1819 Views
In a field off a rural stretch of Glasgow Street, a decades-old dream is slowly taking shape. There, the Kitchener-Waterloo Islamic Association is constructing what it is touting as the largest Islamic Center in Canada on a 4.5-hectare (11-acre) plot...
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2016-07-11
2159 Views
Edited by Josef Meri
Publisher: Routledge (July 6, 2016)
The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of...
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2016-07-11
1954 Views
When Mona Eldadah started this camp four years ago, the idea was mainly about getting fasting Muslim kids off the couch during the holy month of Ramadan, and into activities that were both creatively stimulating and unifying.
Now, the camp has reach...
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2016-07-10
2054 Views
5th Annual Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School
Call for Papers
Date: October 27-29, 2016
Venue: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 17, 2016
The Science, Religion, and Culture program a...
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2016-07-10
1952 Views
Date: October 31 to November 2, 2016
Venue: The Sigtuna Foundation (Sigtuna, Sweden)
The Researching Religious Controversies Conference aims to discuss and delve into a range of themes and challenges that researchers may face when studying religi...
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2016-07-09
2025 Views
The largest annual summer gathering for Muslim students
Date: July 15 - July 17, 2016
Venue: University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
The FOSIS Annual Conference is the largest gathering of Muslim stude...
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2016-07-08
2067 Views
Introduction to Islamic Ethics by the University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education
Date: 18-19 February 2017
Venu: Department of Continuing Education, Rewley House, 1 Wellington, Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, UK
This weekend...
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2016-07-08
3096 Views
Project Start Date: September 2014
Project Finish Date: January 2019
Research Area: The multi-cultural society
This project addresses how Muslim political thought in Europe is affected by societal structures, and, conversely, how the development o...
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2016-07-07
2100 Views
A court in Bavaria has ruled against restrictions on wearing headscarves for law students who are undergoing practical training in the justice system in the German state.
The Augsburg administrative court upheld a complaint by a 25-year-old Muslim s...
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2016-07-07
2011 Views
A new member of Virginia’s Republican State Central Committee apologized over the weekend for posting anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric on Twitter and Facebook — much of which echoed incendiary comments by presumptive GOP presidential ...
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2016-07-05
1863 Views
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) 88 Annual Conference
Date: November 4, 2016 to November 6, 2016
Venue: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, Florida, US
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American...
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2016-07-05
1918 Views
A group of Christians, Muslims and Jews join hands to build a place where they can all worship: Berlin's "House of One" is aiming to become the world's first building to combine a church, a synagogue and a mosque under one roof.
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2016-07-05
2011 Views
Muslims in Bayonne, New Jersey, have wanted an Islamic center and prayer hall for nearly two decades — they currently pray in the cramped basement of an elementary school.
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2016-07-04
1866 Views
The workshop will explore questions about Islamophobia in eastern Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Themes include: History & Present Attitudes to the Other, National & EU Politics, The Lived Experience, Theory & Methodology.
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2016-07-03
2940 Views
Qur'ans Exhibition at Freer|Sackler
Date: October 15, 2016 to February 20, 2017
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US
A Quran from fghanist...
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2016-07-03
1891 Views
Annual Conference of the Sociology of Religion Study Group (SocRel)
Date: 12 – 14 July 2016
Venue: Lancaster University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Professor Lori Beaman (University of Ottowa)
Professor Gordon Lynch (Kent U...
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2016-07-02
1754 Views
Type: Workshop
Date: August 22, 2016 to September 1, 2016
Location: Qum, Iran
The University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran) is pleased to offer the 3rd short-term course on Shi'a Islamic Studies to be held from August 22, to Sept...
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2016-07-02
1666 Views
This conference, entitled "Shia Minorities in the Contemporary World: Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality", focused on Shia Muslims who have migrated from the Middle East and South Asia over the last 100 years, and brought together research...
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2016-07-02
3445 Views
An Iftar & Dinner party was organized by Progressive Muslim Forum (PMF) UK, International under the chairmanship of Khurshid Alam on 21st of June 2016 at Berrymede School Main Hall, Osborne Road, Acton, and London, W3 8SJ.
This event was a chari...
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2016-07-01
2080 Views
The cities of Qum and Mashhad in Iran hosted the 7th round of Catholic – Shi’a dialogue early this May.
The Catholic group which was invited by Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali comprised of Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, head of the Benedictine Conf...
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2016-06-30
1981 Views
German President Joachim Gauck joined Muslims on an interfaith iftar last week in Berlin, sending an out loud message against demonizing Muslims.
“Promoting encounters is particularly important at a time when mutual mistrust is spreading,&rdqu...
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2016-06-30
1768 Views
Many people believe that the EU is only something that affects people involved in politics, or it makes strange laws such as determining how straight bananas should be. However it is an institution that, like it or not, affects lives of British...
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2016-06-25
2022 Views
Russell Moore offered a ringing defense of religious freedom for all, including Muslims, during the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s (ERLC) report to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
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2016-06-23
1551 Views
The Council on American-Islamic Relations had planned to hold a news conference unveiling a report on Islamophobia, including the rise of “Muslim-free” businesses, anti-Muslim rallies by armed protesters, direct attacks on Muslims and the...
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2016-06-23
2055 Views
Smithsonian's museum of Asian art will hold its first ever exhibit of "exquisitely decorated manuscripts" of the Quran in the United States. The exhibit is set to open October 15, 2016 and will run through February 2017.
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2016-06-21
3622 Views
The Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) held a symposium to celebrate the birth anniversary of Imam Mahdi (a.s.), The Savior of humankind.
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2016-06-20
3270 Views
The 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March 2016, and IRIC as an NGO with consultative status with ECOSOC, participated in this annual conference.
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2016-02-02
2743 Views
Channel 4 documentary, The Jihadis Next Door, followed a group of Britain's most dangerous extremists for two years, and aims to highlight the ideological differences between ‘ordinary Muslims’ and those extremists.
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2016-02-01
2299 Views
For years, independent Islamic schools remained at the top score of UK GCSE results, setting example for faith schools as successful, highly-achieving and inspiring educational institutes in Britain.
The Muslim schools overall average of students wh...
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2016-01-31
2147 Views
A Muslim delegation formally invited Pope Francis to visit the Grand Mosque of Rome, thought to be the largest mosque in the Western world. Although the Vatican has not yet officially accepted, the visit was certain to take place, but the date had not yet been announced for security reasons.
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2016-01-30
1921 Views
The Council on American Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today joined 17 Maryland-based groups in calling on Stevenson University to drop anti-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali as a speaker at an up...
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2016-01-28
2126 Views
30th January 2016
Ashford & Staines Community Centre(ASCC), Ashford, Kent, UK
Speakers:
- Prof. Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame)
- Dr. Abdul Aziz Brown (Cambridge Muslim College)
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