Entries for '2017'
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2017-10-18
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Lecturer: Uriya Shavit
On 18 October, from 13:00-15:00 hours, Uriya Shavit presented a lecture entitled: “Muslims in Europe: A Clash or a Meeting of Civilizations?” The lecture took place in Wijnhaven 2.02 in The Hague.
The lecture exam...
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2017-10-18
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Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates sai...
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2017-10-17
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The U.S. has resettled more refugees than any other country – about 3 million since 1980. Generally, in years when more people around the globe are displaced by conflict, violence or persecution in their countries, the number of refug...
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2017-10-13
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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has upset fellow members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc by proposing that Germany introduce Muslim public holidays.
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2017-10-12
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On the 10th of March, 2017, the annual Studies of Religion in Focus ISRA conference was held at the Mercure in Central. The conference encompassed a number of workshops aimed at assisting year 11 and 12 Studies of Religion teachers to facilitate...
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2017-10-12
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Schools in Britain will no longer be able to substantially segregate boys and girls, after the court of appeal ruled that a co-educational faith school in Birmingham had caused unlawful discrimination by separating the two sexes. The court ...
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2017-09-19
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University of Birmingham
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: October 27, 2017
The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham seeks to award 2 PhD studentships to work on the ERC-funded project ‘Creating an Al...
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2017-09-19
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By the Religion in Society Research Network
The Religion in Society Research Network is seeking new academic book proposals. We welcome submissions from across national origins, experience levels, and disciplinary perspectives. ...
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2017-09-19
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Gendered and Minority Perspectives
Edited by Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Anders Backstrom and Grace Davie
Publisher: Policy Press (September 13, 2017)
Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores reg...
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2017-09-18
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Call for Papers
Date: December 4-6, 2017
Venue: The Old Library of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK
Sponsored by: Oxford Academic Symposia
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 10, 2017
The Oxford Symposium on Religious S...
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2017-09-18
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Date: December 27-30, 2017
Venue: Rome, Italy
The High Training School in Sociology of Religion will take place in Rome from 27 to 30 December 2017, in collaboration with the International Center for the Sociology of Religion (ICSOR) and the Sectio...
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2017-09-17
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Nearly all Muslim Americans (97%) say they take pride in being a member of the Islamic faith. But their devotion to core religious beliefs and practices is only part of a religious identity that also includes concerns about social justice and the env...
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2017-08-03
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Cofunded by the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences)
Period: 1 January 2018—31 December 2019
Application Deadline: August 23, 2017
Application Language: English only...
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2017-08-02
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Funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)
under the “USES OF THE PAST” program
Dates: 1 September 2016 - 31 October 2018
Project Website: www.usppip.eu
Much modern Muslim thought, particularly around legal issues, is c...
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2017-08-02
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Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg Fall School 2017 (Webinar)
Call for Applications
Date: September 25-29, 2017
Application Deadline: August 15, 2017
Each fall the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg offers, at no cost, an intensive, five-day course to Mamluk schol...
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2017-08-02
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Date: September 4–8, 2017
Venue: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK
The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, Cambridge University Library, and the University of Cambridge's HRH ...
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2017-08-01
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Call for Papers
Date: April 19-20, 2018
Venue: The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Funded by: The Understanding Sharia Project (USPPIP)
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 30, 2017
We are pleased to an...
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2017-07-27
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MOSQUERS 2017
Date: September 09, 2017
Venue: Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB T5J 4X8, Canada
Submissions Deadline: August 7, 2017
The Mosquers Film Festival is North America’s leading film competition with a focus on promoting awa...
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2017-07-26
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Edited by David Garbin and Anna Strhan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (June 29, 2017)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by as...
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2017-07-23
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Stanford University
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: September 15, 2017
The Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, a tenured Associate Professor or a tenured F...
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2017-07-23
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Sociology of Islam, Volume 5, Issue 2-3, 2017
Editors-in-Chief: Gary Wood, Virginia Tech and Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University
Guest Editors: Ray Jureidini and Sari Hanafi
Publisher: Brill
Sociology of Islam (SOI) p...
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2017-07-22
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Date: Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2017
Venue: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5324, USA
We are pleased to announce our first annual workshop, which will take place on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, a convenien...
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2017-07-19
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Boston has adopted a new method to combat Islamophobia. City authorities have begun a poster campaign encouraging bystanders to make a non-confrontational intervention in case they see harassment against Muslims. The campaign started on July 17 when ...
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2017-07-16
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‘What is Consciousness and Why Observers Matter in Quantum Theory’
Date: September 8, 2017 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: Trinity Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ, UK
Registration for Cambridge Muslim College’s first Science and Relig...
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2017-07-15
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Date: August 18-20, 2017
Venue: Hyatt Regency DFW, 2334 North International Parkway, Dallas, TX, USA
The 13th Annual National Muslim Congress Conference will be held in Dallas, TX on Aug 18-20th 2017. In attendance will be a number of renowned...
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2017-07-15
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Date: September 18-21, 2017
Venue: University of Leuven, Belgium
Communication plays a crucial role in religion and religious praxis. Religions claim to be able to create links with the divine and the transcendent, between humans and superhuman age...
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2017-07-13
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a controversial GOP proposal identifying “Islamic religious doctrines, concepts or schools of thought” that could be used by terrorist groups — something opponents say is unconsti...
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2017-07-13
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U.K. politicians should consider regulation to tackle the tide of negative media coverage about British Muslims. This was the message from a Liverpool conference this week which examined damaging and biased news stories about Britain's Muslim communi...
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2017-07-13
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Call for Papers
Date: December 18-19, 2017
Venue: The Spot-B01 (Copland Theatre), University of Melbourne (Parkville), Australia
Abstract Submission Deadline: August 11, 2017
Hosted by the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies ...
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2017-07-11
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Course Description:
- Exploring how you can deepen your students’ understanding of Islam and Muslim societies.
- Establish a critical background on elementary concepts, practices, traditions of Islam.
- Acquire tools for navigating t...
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2017-07-11
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Call for Papers
Date: April 11-13, 2018
Venue: Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France
Languages of the Conference: English, French
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2017
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matth...
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2017-07-10
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Bay Area teachers gathered at Stanford for a five-week program this spring that provided educators strategies to teach Islam. The program, a collaboration involving three Stanford organizations, doesn’t shy away from Islam’s complicated nature.
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2017-07-09
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A study commissioned by an Austrian government minister critical of Vienna’s Muslim-run kindergartens has ignited a political fight between the minister’s party and rivals seizing on allegations that his staff rewrote parts of the study t...
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2017-07-08
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This year, the International School of Islamic Studies, which has already become traditional, was taking place in Odessa. It was dedicated to “Islam in the modern world: historical, cultural, intellectual space,” Religion in Ukraine has r...
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2017-07-06
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Conference Report
June 26-27, 2017 | University of Manchester
This international conference organized by the College of Psychoanalysts – UK with the support of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix and CIDRAL University of Manchester promises to f...
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2017-07-06
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A Dutch court ruled on Tuesday that the government was partly liable for the deaths of about 350 Muslim men in 1995 in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the site of Europe’s worst mass murder since World War II.
The court largely upheld a l...
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2017-07-05
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The opening of a new mosque this month in Berlin further strained already-tense relations between Germany and Turkey, and has caused outrage in various corners of the Muslim world -- even prompting religious authorities in Egypt to issue a decree con...
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2017-07-05
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The U.K. has mistakenly subcontracted the management of its Muslim population to community brokers, Gilles Kepel tells Haaretz, rebutting rival scholar Olivier Roy. British law enforcement struggling to cope with a burgeoning wave of terrorism?...
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2017-07-04
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New perspectives of Islamic History from the 16th century to the present
June 25-29, 2017 | Duke University
Workshop Report
The Duke Islamic Studies Center and Qatar Foundation International presented a summer institute for 6-12 educators.
A...
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2017-07-04
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Mosques in the UK should hire British-born imams on a living wage who are better equipped than foreign religious leaders to understand the challenges faced by British Muslims, a report has recommended.
The Missing Muslims: Unlocking British Muslim P...
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2017-07-04
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Responding earlier this year to the fatal shooting of six Muslims at a Quebec City mosque, the Canadian Council of Imams stated, “Islamophobia has killed innocent Canadians.” The media is not a unified body, but all of its parts are ...
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2017-06-13
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Lecturer: Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Cambridge Islamic College is pleased to introduce the new Diploma in Essential Islamic Sciences (DEIS) this Ramadan with a SPECIAL 45% DISCOUNT.
Diploma in Essential Islamic Sciences is a brand new p...
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2017-06-12
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Respect Graduate School, Inaugural Conference
Call for Papers
Date: October 21-22, 2017
Venue: Respect Graduate School, 2200 Industrial Dr, Bethlehem, PA 18017, USA
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ingrid Mattson
Respect Graduate School’s Inaugural Co...
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2017-06-12
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Violence in Sharīʿa and its Contemporary Implications
Date: July 6-7, 2017
Venue: Al-Mahdi Institute, Weoley Park Road, Birmingham B29 6RB, UK
We are looking forward to welcoming scholars from across the UK, and the globe, representing a broad ran...
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2017-06-12
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According to experts, Shia sects such as Zaydis, Twelvers and Ismā’īlīs account for to half of the world’s Muslim population. Most of the world’s Shia population reside in in Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Lebano...
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2017-06-11
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Date: June 18, 2017 – 2:00 Pm
Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, Marylebone, London NW1, UK
Organizer: The Ahmed Family - C/O Muhammadi Trust
The Muhammadi Trust, a charitable endowment with its center in Great Britain is devoted to t...
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2017-06-11
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Call for papers
Date: August 19-21, 2017
Venue: The Al-Hikmah Institute of Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 20, 2017
Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 30, 2017
The Al-Hikmah Institute of Al-Mu...
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2017-06-09
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Coordinated US rallies against Islamic law, known as Shariah, have the already rattled Muslim community on edge. The worshippers at the Eugene Islamic Center are worried about their security. A man recently appeared outside the mosque and threatened ...
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2017-06-08
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A proposal by an Australian Islamic group to allow "safe spaces" for young Muslims to discuss "inflammatory" issues has sparked a row.
The Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) said such forums enabled young people's opinions to be "respectfully and int...
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2017-06-08
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A Christian advocacy group is claiming the U.S. Department of Education is “indoctrinating” students into believing Islamic beliefs. The Christian Action Network sent a letter demanding DOE “cease its Islamic education program for t...
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2017-06-06
1963 Views
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2017
The Islamophobia Studies Yearbook is a bi-lingual periodical that started as a German language journal and has now been offering articles in German and English since 2010. The journal uses double bl...
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2017-06-06
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Editors: Patrick Michel, Adam Possamai, Bryan Turner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US (May 19, 2017)
This edited book explores the impact of globalization on the relationship between religion and politics, religion and nation, religion and national...
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2017-06-05
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LUCIS Summer School
Call for Applications
Date: August 15-25, 2017
Venue: Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Application Deadline: June 16, 2017
This summer school is organized for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who hav...
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2017-06-03
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A two-day course covering essential themes in the Quran
Date: June 17-18, 2017
Venue: Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
Instructor: Shaykh SM Hasan al-Banna
At Islamic Institute for development and research (IIDR), we are gearing up fo...
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2017-06-02
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A number of Italian bishops are offering praise for Islam and defending it as a religion with a role in salvation. Pope Francis' new appointment as president for the Italian bishops' conference, Cdl. Gualtiero Bassetti, archbishop of Perugia, immedia...
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2017-05-29
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Salamislam group on the occasion of Holy Month of Ramazan invited all interested parties especially those who are interested or converted to Islam on sharing videos.
The group says:
“Ramadan has already come and we all have something to wait...
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2017-05-29
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Achieving the goals of educational projects of IRIC, a group of students and researchers of Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) visited Abrishami synagogue in Tehran in May 2017. The attendees included students of the Islam and the West In...
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2017-05-28
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Call for Papers
Date: April 17-18, 2018
Venue: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 17, 2017
The Religion and Spirituality in Society Research Network sets out in its conference, journal, b...
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2017-05-27
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Call for Papers
Date: November 20 - 21, 2017
Venue: Paris, France
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017
The ICID 2017: 19th International Conference on Islam and Democracy aims to bring together leading academic scientists, resear...
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2017-05-26
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The Al-Salam Institute Islamic Scholarship Program (ISP) is at the forefront of Alimiyyah Programs in the West. Al-Salam Institute presents its pioneering six-year Islamic Scholarship Program.
Through part-time study and a dynamic selections of modu...
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2017-05-25
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That time of the year has come.
A month to repent from our wrong-doings and sins.
It's the month when the devils are chained, the gates of hell are closed and those of paradise are opened.
It's the month the holy prophet used to pray to witness. I...
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2017-05-25
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On June 1, 2017, The CEIAS (Center for South Asian Studies) in cooperation with the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) held a seminar on “Material Culture and...
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2017-05-25
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As President Donald Trump engages in his own, idiosyncratic kind of religious and cultural diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and Israel, back in the United States efforts by faith groups to understand each other better seem to be gathering pace. Some of the ...
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2017-05-24
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In the wake of the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester this week, Muslims along with the rest of the diverse British city are mourning the dead and tending to the wounded. But for Muslims in particular, the suicide bombin...
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2017-05-23
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Even before this week’s terrorist bombing at a pop concert in Manchester, England, people across Europe and in the U.S. and Canada had pervasive concerns about the threat of extremism in their countries. Across 12 countries surveyed f...
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2017-05-23
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Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in ...
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2017-05-23
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Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World
Edited by: Zaid Eyadat, Francesca M. Corrao, Mohammed Hashas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US (June 14, 2017)
Series: Middle East Today
This is the first work in English that examines the ...
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2017-05-22
1674 Views
Call for Papers
Date: August 2-4, 2017 and December 4-6, 2017
Venue: The Old Library of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK
Sponsored by: Oxford Academic Symposia
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 14, 2017
The Oxford Symposi...
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2017-05-21
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Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Opportunities for Scholars for the Academic Year 2018-2019
Application Deadline: November 1, 2017
THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community ...
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2017-05-20
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“Local and Global identities. Social change and Ibadi diaspora communities.”
Date: May 20-23 2017
Venue: The University of Tokyo, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Komaba Campus), Tokyo, Japan
The first international conference on Iba...
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2017-05-14
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Date: July 14-16, 2017
Venue: UK
The Qur’an tells us, through example and parable, of many cosmological laws that God has decreed. We learn that our actions have deep consequences upon our lives in this world. From obedience t...
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2017-05-12
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Americans are more likely to view Muslims, who make up 1 percent of the U.S. population, as extremists if they do not know one personally, according to a February poll by the Pew Research Center. The same survey found that 60 percent of Americans who...
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2017-05-11
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Freie Universität Berlin
Application Deadline: May 31, 2017
Intellectual richness and unparalleled variety characterize the world of Islam throughout its history. From the 9th century CE onwards, Muslims, Christians and Jews shared a common ev...
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2017-05-11
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Date: August 21-27, 2017
Venue: Qum, Iran
Shi’a Studies is a discipline in which the formation of Shi‘ism, its expansion in various countries, and its current situation in the world, as well as its belief system, moral teachings, ritual...
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2017-05-09
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Call for Papers
Date: October 19-20, 2017
Venue: Al-Mustafa Open University, Qom, I.R.Iran
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 20, 2017
Organized by Deputy of Research Department in Seven Languages: Persian, Arabic, Azeri, Turkish, Urdu, English a...
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2017-05-05
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Call for Application
The Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern, Switzerland
Application Deadline: May 21, 2017
The Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities at the...
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2017-05-05
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By Abu Mansur Ahmed Ibn Ali al-Tabarsi
Editor: Abu Yahya al-Hosseini
Translator: Fizza Haidari
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 30, 2017)
Veritas-Publishing released this March the first of a series of volume dedicate...
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2017-05-05
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The largest mosque in Scandinavia has opened in Sweden, which is one of the least religious and most atheistic nations in the Western world, reports have said, costing the Qatari government $3.30 million to build.
Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islam...
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2017-05-04
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Jews and Muslims in Europe have a common cause in resisting attacks on minority religions and defending religious freedom, Europe’s top rabbi has said. Speaking on the eve of Passover, which begins on Monday, chief rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt war...
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2017-05-03
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The German parliament has supported a draft law banning women working in the civil service, judiciary and military from wearing full-face Islamic veils.
Burqas and niqabs will be prohibited in selected professions as part of the legislation, which w...
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2017-05-03
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The International Basketball Federation has agreed to allow athletes to wear head coverings after a growing number of calls from female Muslim basketball players around the world.
Muslim women basketball players have won their battle to wear hijab w...
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2017-05-02
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The 5th AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop
Call for Papers
Date: July 6-7, 2017
Venue: Al-mahdi Institute, Weoley Park Road, Birmingham B29 6RB, UK
The 5th annual fiqhī workshop at Al-Mahdi Institute aims to facilitate scholars...
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2017-05-02
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Date: September 28-29, 2017
Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon (FCSH/NOVA), Lisbon, Portugal
The first Forum of Researchers in Islamic Contexts (FRIC) was held in January 2013. That year, we wanted to surv...
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2017-04-30
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Call for Book Proposals
I.B.Tauris invites submissions for inclusion in its academic monograph series, The Early and Medieval Islamic World. Led by series editor Professor Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), the series promotes innovative rese...
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2017-04-30
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The eighth annual study on global restrictions on religion, published by Pew Research Center April 10 reports an increase in countries with “high” or “very high” levels of government laws, policies and actions t...
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2017-04-24
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The Centre for Islamic & West Asian Studies (CIWAS)
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: June 15, 2017
Applications are invited for eight studentships to be awarded for a Masters by Research Programme in Islamic and West Asian Studies. ...
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2017-04-17
1689 Views
University of Edinburgh
Application Deadline: May 2, 2017
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for a fees only MSc Taught degree scholarship for any of its programs (IMES, Middl...
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2017-04-17
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Date: July 3-7, 2017
Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Organizer: Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities (UU)
Course fee (incl. housing): € 650
Level: Bachelor level
This course focuses on current debates in the academic Study of Religion ...
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2017-04-15
1596 Views
New Directions in 21st Century Islamic Thought
The 10th Annual Summer Institute for Scholars
Date: July 26-29, 2017
Venue: Herndon, VA 20170, USA
Recent debates within the Muslim community on issues of political legitimacy, loyalty and obedienc...
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2017-04-13
1864 Views
Application Deadline: June 30, 2017
Through the annual Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (as) Scholarship, Muslim Congress seeks to support students in their pursuit of education. The Scholarship is open to high school seniors, students enrolled in a college or u...
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2017-04-09
1733 Views
A new poll on religious views in Canada shows that while acceptance of religious minorities has improved over the past four years, more work is still needed.
The poll, conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, found although some 68 percent of Can...
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2017-04-07
1687 Views
Peacebuilding in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Course Duration: 6 Weeks
Date: June 26, 2017 – July 14, 2017
Venue: Bossey, Switzerland
Intended for an international audience of young people (ages 20-35) interested and engaged in inte...
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2017-04-05
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Instructor: Shaykh Michael Mumisa
Course Duration: 12 months (38 weeks)
Starting Date: May 1, 2017
Registration Deadline: April 25, 2017
Cambridge IGCSE Islamiyat syllabus enables learners to develop an understanding of the importance of the...
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2017-04-05
1993 Views
Pope Francis met four British imams at the Vatican, two weeks after the London extremist attack. The meeting was part of the Pope’s effort to encourage Muslim leaders who renounce using religion to justify violence.
The audience was scheduled ...
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2017-04-02
1727 Views
CINEMA: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2017
Edited by:
Patrícia Castello Branco (IFILNOVA)
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad (SOAS University of London)
Sérgio Dia...
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2017-04-02
1599 Views
Across Eastern Massachusetts Sunday, Muslims gathered, shoulder to shoulder, to begin afternoon prayers. But at the back of the room at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, a crowd of Christians, Jews, agnostics, and atheists had...
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2017-03-28
1673 Views
France’s attempts to counter the radicalization of its young people are in turmoil, with a group home intended to turn them away from Islamic extremism empty, the head of a highly publicized nonprofit convicted of misuse of public funds, and pl...
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2017-03-27
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Hundreds of people from different faith groups and ethnicities circled America’s oldest mosque in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Sunday, March 26, forming a human shield to show support to American Muslims against threats and hate mails sent to mosques...
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2017-03-26
2065 Views
Author: Baqir al-Irawani
Translator: Zaid Alsalami
Publisher: ICAS Press
Jurisprudential maxims (al-qawa‘id al-fiqhiyyah) play an important role in determining one's legal duty in particular situations. When applied, these maxims - such as t...
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2017-03-24
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Date: April 20, 2017 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Venue: 303 International Center, Muslim Studies Center, Michigan State University, 220 Trowbridge Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Special Guest Speaker: Blaque Hough
Hailing from Michigan, ...
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2017-03-22
1576 Views
Students’ right to pray in schools would be guaranteed under a bill barreling through the Florida Legislature. The bill specifies that students in public schools are permitted to engage in prayer and that school personnel are allowed to participate in student-led prayers. The bills also guarantee protection for students who wear religiously themed jewelry.
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2016-11-19
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Call for Papers
Date: April 15-16, 2017
Venue: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Theology, Mashhad, Iran
Submission Deadline: December 30, 2016
Subject Areas: Theology, Philosophy, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Ethics and Justice ...
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2016-11-16
1673 Views
Annual International Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers
Date: June 28-29, 2017
Venue: Yerevan State University, Armenia
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 25, 2017
The Chair of Arabic Studies at Yerevan State University is pl...
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2016-11-15
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Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text
Call for Papers
Date: 30 March - 1 April 2017
Venue: Tübingen, Germany
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2016
Recent years have seen new...
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2016-11-03
1800 Views
2nd GIS Congress
Date: July 7, 2017 @ 1:00 to 3:30 pm
Venue: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, France
If rationality denotes what complies with the mind, irrationality, by...
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2016-08-19
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The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion will be held in Tehran, Iran, Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran at January 24-25, 2017.
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2016-08-04
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The Era of Presence in the Abrahamic Religions
Call for Papers
Date: May 10-11, 2017
Venue: Bright Future Institute (BFI), No. 27, Alley 25, Safaeiyeh Street, Qom, Iran
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 20, 2016
The era of Advent, the...
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2016-07-19
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Edited by Tahir Abbas
Publisher: Routledge (2017)
1,377 pages
This major works collection surveys the nature of Muslim diasporas in the west from a sociological perspective, exploring the issues of migration, integration, identity, politics, Islam...
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2016-04-27
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We would like to invite Non-Governmental Organizations to apply for consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), if they wish to be considered by the NGO Committee in 2017.
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