Muslims Respond to the US Gulf Crisis 2020

January 8, 2020

The following joint statement was issued by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, CAIR, Islamic Shura Council, Shia Muslim Council, ILM Foundation, Islamic Center of Southern California and Masjid Ahlul Beyt. A Live Press Event was held at MPAC's office with Shia Muslim Council...

Will My Children Be Muslim? The Development of Religious Identity in Young People

January 16, 2020

One of the primary concerns of Muslim parents in the West is the religious identity of their children. Many parents wonder what the secret is to...

Malaysia has world’s most powerful Muslim passport

January 15, 2020

Malaysia has the 13th most powerful passport in the world making it the premier Muslim passport, according to a new list by The Henley Passport Index. Each year the organization ranks all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a...

Khoja Heritage Festival 2020

February 8, 2020 | KSIMC of Birmingham, UK

The Council of European Jamaats in conjunction with The World Federation of KSIMC is pleased to present The Khoja Heritage Festival 2020. Are you interested in discovering our origin and where we have come from? Do you want to learn more about our history, culture and tradition?...

Ma’rifa 2020: Self-Discovery and Imagination

February 28-29, 2020 | SOCH Harvard, Cambridge, MA, US

The National Shi’a Student Conference
Shi`a students today find themselves dealing with a myriad of challenges. Between the struggles of navigating faith in America,...

Course: Universalities & Particularities: How Islam Relates to the Context

By Cambridge Muslim College

In Universalities & Particularities: How Islam Relates to the Context, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad and Dr Ingrid Mattson provide us with an understanding of historical elements of Islamic...

“Muslims in the UK and Europe”

Call for Papers | June 2020 | University of Cambridge, UK

The Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS) organizes an annual postgraduate symposium on “Muslims in the UK and Europe”. The aim is to bring together graduate students from British, European and American universities to present their research to their peers, discuss their findings and engage...

Celebrating SocRel at 45: Beyond Binaries in the Sociology of Religion

July 14-16, 2020 | University of York, UK

Sociological writing about religion is replete with binaries: secular/post-secular, sacred/profane, religion/non-religion, western/non-western, spiritual/religious, theistic/non-theistic,...

Lecture: The Great Islamic State' in English-Occupied Egypt, 1882-1922'

March 5, 2020 | Cambridge, UK

Hussein A H Omar is a cultural and intellectual historian of the Modern Middle East and is currently an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Pembroke College and the History Faculty, as...

Conference Panel: Religion, (im)mobilities and citizenship in the face of populism

21-24 July, 2020 | University of Lisbon, Portugal

How does religious mobility fare in a context in which nationalism(s) and populism(s) are growing and movement is being curtailed...

Gratitude to God (GTG)

Psychological, Philosophical and Theological Investigations
The scientific study of gratitude to God (GTG) has been virtually ignored, despite the fact that gratitude is at the core of religious ritual and belief systems. We will fund empirical and nonempirical projects that investigate the nature of GTG and how it’s different from gratitude to humans. In a recent survey, of those students...