UK Muslim Lifestyle Expo 2017 attracts thousands

October 29, 2017

The latest lifestyle trends for the U.K.’s Muslims came to center stage in northern Manchester city Saturday with an annual event that aims to attract around 15,000 visitors. Rauf Mirza, one of the organizers of Muslim Lifestyle Expo, said the event aims to project British Muslim...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada sends goodwill message to Muslims

October 24, 2017

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada has sent a message of support and goodwill to Canadian Muslims. “At the convention, our...

Findings of ‘Race Disparity Audit’ call for action against racial inequality in Britain

October 13, 2017

The new government study “Race Disparity Audit” is likely to stir social debates surrounding racial integration for some time. Bringing...

Canada Muslim Women Determined to Fight Discrimination

October 23, 2017

A Canadian Muslim women group has found a new resolve to fight discrimination in the community as Muslims celebrated its 35th anniversary a few days after the adoption of...

Channel 4 Documentary: “My Week As A Muslim”

October 23, 2017

Channel 4 is facing mockery after airing a documentary which went to the lengths of getting a white woman to go undercover in ‘brownface’ make-up to show the Islamophobia faced by Muslim women. My Week As A Muslim showed Katie Freeman, facing abuse that...

Muslim Matter

Publisher: Revolver Publishing (January 2, 2017)

Edited by Omar Kasmani and Stefan Maneval
Publication of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)
This book is a cooperation between doctoral fellows, alumni and alumnae, post-doctoral fellows and professors of the BGSMCS. It brings together photographs, objects, and essays as a way to present the overlooked and sometimes under-represented aspects of everyday life across various Muslim communities and societies. In doing so, it recognizes and reflects upon the importance of material and visual cultures. Our selection comprises of material gathered at the BGSMCS: photographs that researchers have recorded during fieldwork, objects and artefacts...

The Reach of Empire - The Early Islamic Empire at Work

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018

As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference invites participants to consider the reach of the early...

Representing Muslim Women: Muslim Women and the Media

Call for Applications | Application Deadline: November 10, 2017

The media is the most powerful vehicle for representing or misrepresenting Islam, Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. Distorted images of Muslim women and Islam...

University Lecturer in Islamic Theology

University of Helsinki, Finland | Deadline: November 12, 2017

The Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki invites applications for a permanent position of University Lecturer in Islamic Theology in the Study of Religions to begin on 1 August 2018. The applicant should have expertise in two of the following topics...

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Visiting Fellowships 2018

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK | Deadline: Jan. 19, 2018

Visiting Fellowships are awarded annually to enable scholars or writers to spend an extended period of independent study & research at Oxford. The following Fellowships are...

The Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia (JCMA)

The Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia (JCMA) was established in Melbourne in 2003, to establish an annual residential conference based upon the thirty years of experience developed by the Jewish-Christian...