Entries for 'Islam'
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2020-07-26
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Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to July 30, 2020.
Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in this festival. We are eagerly waiting for your videos.
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2020-06-10
253 Views
Edited by Robert Gleave, István Kristó-Nagy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: June 2020
Examines the development of Muslim theological, legal, literary and cultural discussions about violence and its legitimatio...
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2018-10-14
779 Views
Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
By Jennifer Selby, Amelie Barras and Lori G. Beaman
Publisher: UBC Press (September 2018)
Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation &nda...
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2018-01-14
1016 Views
Research Project Funded by Gerda Henkel Foundation
Call for Proposals
Application Deadline: May 16, 2018
The special program "Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements" is aimed at researchers who, with an eye to current developme...
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2017-10-17
1124 Views
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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2017-09-17
1102 Views
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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2017-07-27
1596 Views
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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2017-07-15
1230 Views
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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2017-07-13
1109 Views
The editors of two magazines targeting Britain’s 2.8m Muslims have spoken about why they felt the need to provide a different media perspective for the minority group. The Black Muslim Times UK is a website set up British Nigerian Halimat Shode...
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2017-07-13
1256 Views
A bus-load of imams are on a six-day tour of European cities hit by attacks in recent years to denounce terrorism, including Brussels, Nice, Toulouse and London. After leaving Paris on Saturday, they arrived on Sunday in Berlin. They are due to ...
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2017-07-07
1223 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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2017-07-06
1056 Views
A Dallas imam and his organization are taking on the world’s largest search engine to stop it from spreading hate. Suleiman is president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist Unive...
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2017-06-08
988 Views
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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2017-06-02
1128 Views
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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2017-05-23
4606 Views
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
1386 Views
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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2017-04-11
1262 Views
In several Western European countries, some politicians want to force imams to deliver sermons only in the official language: In Germany, imams should preach in German; in Italy, in Italian; in Britain, in English; in France, in French. To justify th...
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2017-04-09
1264 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
1271 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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2016-11-01
1660 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
1498 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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2016-08-29
1648 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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2016-08-20
1795 Views
Dr. Iqbal Al-Nadvi (Mohammad Iqbal Masood Al-Nadvi) is the Chairperson of Canadian Council of Imams and also serves as the Amir (President) of Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Canada.
His previous positions include the following: Dir...
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2016-08-20
1913 Views
Welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the world, Muslim dawah teams took to the Brazilian streets in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to spread the true message of Islam. Jamila da Lima is one of those volunteers who found Islam a few y...
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2016-08-19
1535 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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2016-07-27
1603 Views
More U.S. employers are taking steps to make Muslims feel accepted and safe at work, as their faith comes under scrutiny with the rise in terror attacks and calls by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for a ban on Muslim immigrants.
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2016-07-25
5378 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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2016-07-19
2106 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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2016-07-16
1969 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
1955 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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2016-06-25
1682 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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2016-06-25
1747 Views
Germany is seeing a rise in Islamophobia, according to a new study which highlights the tensions surrounding the recent influx of refugees. More than 40 percent of residents said they believe Muslims should be forbidden from coming to Germany.
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2015-12-27
1433 Views
ATLANTA, Georgia – “Working on building bridges is the need of hour for all Americans” said Abdulrauf Khan, Chair of the largest convention of American Muslims in the Southeast. Organized annually by the Islamic Circle of North Amer...
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2015-12-20
1476 Views
U.S. Muslim Leaders Announce Campaigns to Enhance National Security, Address Rising Islamophobia
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim organizations, today announced ...
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2015-12-17
1795 Views
A lack of training and funding is creating a Muslim leadership vacuum in the U.S. That’s bad for everyone.
One of many ugly patterns since Sept. 11, 2001, is that those who say they are worried about Islamic terrorism often fight to keep mosqu...
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2015-12-06
2863 Views
Speaking during a press conference held at the 2015 Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday, Francis Ford Coppola quoted the Holy Qur'an and defended Islam in a touching way.
He quote the Qur'an, specifically Surah Al Fatihah emphasi...
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2015-12-05
1925 Views
Dutch YouTube channel Dit is Normaal (This is Normal) has exposed how much of people’s views on Islam are based on prejudice in its latest episode, “The Holy Quran Experiment.”
Dit is Normaal travels to random Dutch ...
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2015-12-03
835 Views
The head of the German Green party Cem Özdemir and the speaker for religious affairs Volker Beck have drafted a position paper rejecting the recognition of Islamic associations as religious corporate bodies under public law. Özdemir and Bec...
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2015-11-21
1593 Views
We’ve told you how the Paris attacks led to threats against Muslims nationwide. Here in Central Florida, Muslims are using billboards to sort out the facts from the fiction behind their beliefs.
While driving along I-4 in Orlando, there are ...
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2014-07-13
1373 Views
More than 1.7 million Muslims living in Spain have started Sunday, the Ramadan. In this context, the Union of Islamic Communities in Spain (UCIDE) calls on employers to provide, where possible, its practitioners workers to fulfill this task. “...
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