Mosquers Film Festival 2017

September 09, 2017 | Edmonton, Canada

The Mosquers Film Festival is North America’s leading film competition with a focus on promoting awareness and education of current issues related to Muslims and the Islamic faith. We are calling for submissions for the 2017 season. It is open to all filmmakers in...

U.N. Secretary-General launches 1st action plan for religious leaders to prevent incitement to violence

July 14, 2017

The first ever action plan specifically designed to enable religious leaders to prevent incitement to violence was launched on 14 July by...

Toronto Muslim and Jewish Women find power and joy in building a sisterhood

July 21, 2017

With the establishment of the Toronto chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, 34 Muslim and Jewish women have come together to support...

CAIR report shows 2017 on track to becoming one of worst years ever for anti-Muslim hate crimes

July 17, 2017

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today released an update on anti-Muslim incidents in the second quarter of 2017...

Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize 2017

Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2017

To encourage early-career scholars seeking to publish in leading academic journals, Brill is awarding an annual prize for an outstanding article in the field of Middle East & Islamic...

Sociology of Islam Journal: Special Issue on Immigration, Political Economy and Islam

Publisher: Brill (2017)

Sociology of Islam, Volume 5, Issue 2-3, 2017
Sociology of Islam (SOI) provides an international scholarly forum for research related to the religion and culture of Islam, Muslim societies, and social issues related to Muslims in socio-political context. Decidedly rooted in the sociological perspective, SOI takes an expansive and global view of this broad subject matter.
SOI publishes multiple issues per year containing original peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the...

Religion and the Global City

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (June 29, 2017)

Edited by David Garbin and Anna Strhan
This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Singapore and Hong Kong – which...

First Annual Great Lakes Adiban Workshop

Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2017 | Western Michigan University, MI, USA

We are pleased to announce our first annual workshop, which will take place on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, a convenient middle ground between Chicago, Bloomington, Columbus, and Ann Arbor. The workshop is intended to be friendly but...

“Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods”

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: Sept. 8, 2017

This year’s international conference is devoted to the study of material culture in the Middle Islamic periods, namely the era of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman Sultanates and their...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Islamic Studies, Stanford University

Application Deadline: September 15, 2017

The Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, a tenured Associate...

International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS)

Incorporated in 2004, ISILS is an international, non-profit, and non-political organization that aims to encourage scholarship on and to foster communication about Islamic law and related subjects. ISILS’s primary focus is the...