Growth of Muslims in US creates need for religious scholars

November 10, 2019

An increasing number of US Muslims want guidance from religious instructors who they can understand linguistically and culturally. For mosques around the country, the need to...

Meet the imam building a ‘Muslim Village’ in the heart of Vegas

October 11, 2019

The imam, who leads Masjid As-Sabur, the oldest mosque in the Las Vegas area, is quick to clarify: “Not casino lights — I’m talking about noor,” he said, using the Arabic word for light that...

Islamophobia on the rise in Australia

November 4, 2019

Canberra's top intelligence officer said there was “no doubt” some right-wing extremists have been inspired by the Christchurch mosque attack, and that an attack in Australia by the extreme right is “plausible”. Australian Security and Intelligence Organization director general Mike Burgess...

Muslim preachers must speak German to work in the country under proposed law

November 7, 2019

All imams who work in Germany will in future have to prove they can speak the German language, under a draft law for religious...

8th International Conference on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: January 6, 2020

Globalization, along with the increasing growth of new communicative technologies and great possibilities for tourism in the world has...

Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

Call for Papers | Submission Deadline: November 17, 2019

The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to invite proposals for individual papers, or whole panels, for its Seventh Annual Conference which will be hosted by the Aga...

Navigating the Non/Confessional in University Islamic Studies

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: January 17, 2020

The conference will explore the opportunities and challenges created by the emergence of bridges and permeable membranes between confessional and non-confessional Islamic educational...

14th ISORECEA Conference: “Religion on the Periphery”

Call for Papers | Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2019

The aim of this conference is to encourage scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Western scholarship, to reflect on the variety of such peripheries – in particular...

Islamic Approaches to Psychology & Psychotherapy

April 5-10, 2020 | Cambridge Muslim College, UK

This 5-day program introduces Western-trained mental health professionals, psychologists, psychotherapists, researchers and counsellors to the philosophy and methodology of psychology...

Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Islamicate South Asian Studies

Columbia University, NY, USA | Call for Applications

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies at Columbia University is seeking to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in South Asian studies with specialization in...

Job Opening: Social Theory and the Digital Study of Religion

University of Alabama, AL, USA | Call for Applications

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the area of Social...

Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion

Building upon the fact that Iran is a religious country with a large number of religious people and different denominations and also with regard to an ever-increasing attention which is being given to religion the world over, it is quite understandable why religious thought is so...