Entries for January 2017
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2017-01-28
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A Marketplace of Ideas
Date: February 25-26, 2017
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Venue: Human Rights Action Center, Amnesty International UK, EC2A 3EA London, UK
Keynote Speaker: Karen Armstrong
The British Islam Conference, organized by New Horizons...
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2017-01-27
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Call for Proposals
Research Scholarship by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Application Deadline: May 24, 2017
The special program "Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements" is aimed at researchers who, with ...
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2017-01-26
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Stanford University, California, USA
Application Deadline: February 20, 2017
Stanford University’s Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and Department of Religious Studies invite applications for a two-year postdoctoral position on Islam in Nort...
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2017-01-25
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FREE Online Course by Cardiff University
Starting Date: February 20, 2017
Duration: 4 weeks
Educators: Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Mark Bryant
Develop your understanding of Muslims and their faith through an exploration of communities in Britai...
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2017-01-25
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Christianity is “in full decline” and Islam will soon become the main religion in Europe, an Italian archbishop warned. “In 10 years we will all be Muslims because of our stupidity,” Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emerit...
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2017-01-24
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11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Date: September 13-16, 2017
Venue: The Ciutadella Campus at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
Section Chairs:
Raffaele Mauriello, University of Tehran
Deina Abdelk...
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2017-01-23
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In 2008, a couple living in Basel, Switzerland, forbid their young daughters from attending school swim class. The Muslim parents didn't want their kids, 7 and 9, in the pool with boys. So the city ordered them to pay a fine of 1,400 Swiss ...
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2017-01-22
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Islam UK Seminar Series 2017
Date: February 1, 2017 @ 19:00 – 21:00
Venue: Committee Rooms 1 & 2, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, UK
Speaker: Professor Nasar Meer
Chair: Jonathan Cox, Citizens UK Deputy D...
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2017-01-21
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New Upcoming Course by Risalat International Institute:
These courses are only for sisters.
Date: Thursdays from February 2, 2017 to April 27, 2017
Venue: Risalat International Institute, No. 41, Alley No. 8, Shahid Attaran Street, Qum, Iran
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2017-01-21
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Interior ministry funding courses for preachers from Islam and other 'unofficial' religions. Muslim imams in Italy are being enrolled on courses aiming to “create a climate of tolerance” and fight radicalization by learning abou...
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2017-01-20
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The 34th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR)
Date: July 4-7, 2017
Venue: University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Session Convener: Dr. Yaghoob Foroutan (Associate Professor, Mazanda...
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2017-01-20
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The Muslim Institute, a registered charity, is a Fellowship society of intellectuals, thinkers, academics, artists, and professionals. It aims to promote and support the growth of thought, knowledge, research, creativity and open debate within the Mu...
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2017-01-19
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Call for Papers
Date: March 29, 2017
Venue: University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Organized by: Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) and the University of Leeds
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 30, 2017
Program Highlights
Plenary 1: C...
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2017-01-18
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Author: Mushegh Asatryan
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd (November 30, 2016)
Series: Shi'i Heritage Studies
Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular ...
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2017-01-16
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About 25 people gathered at the Muslim American Society Katy Center on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 to show support for local Muslims in an event the group named "A Day of Solidarity." The group organized the event in response to the rise in hate crimes agai...
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2017-01-15
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Date: January 19, 2017 @ 3:00pm
Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
Lecturer: Dr Mohammadreza Kalantari
Organized by: Al-Mahdi Institute
Usuli Shi‘ism categorizes laymen into Mujtahid, Muqallid, or Muhtat. Mujtahi...
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2017-01-15
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Author: Ebrahim Moosa
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (March 10, 2015)
Explains the role of the madrasa in the cultural, intellectual and religious experience of Muslims.
The prospects for peace in Afghanistan, dialogue between Washington an...
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2017-01-14
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The international conference of “Islamic Occultism in Theory and Practice” was held at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), 6-8 January 2017, coinciding with the final week of an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum titled “Power and Protec...
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2017-01-13
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Workshop on Muslim Secularities
Call for Papers
Date: June 18-20, 2017
Venue: Leipzig University Humanities Center for Advanced Studies, Leipzig, Germany
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2017
Keynote speakers:
Bryan S. Turner, th...
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2017-01-12
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al-Sharif al-Murtada and Imami Discourse
Author: Hussein Ali Abdulsater
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (June 30, 2017)
Examines the critical turn that shaped Imami Shi'ism in the 10th and 11th centuries
God is not free to act; He is bound ...
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2017-01-11
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A man near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July holds a pack of chewing gum called “Islamophobin.” The packaging attempts to bring attention to the issue of anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States. (CNS photo/Justin ...
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2017-01-10
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Call for Papers
Date: March 15-17, 2017
Venue: the Old Library of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 20, 2017
The Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies is a forum for discourse and ...
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2017-01-10
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International Conference of Shii Studies
Call for Papers
Date: December 7-9, 2017
Venue: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2017
The undersigned are pleased to invite paper proposals for...
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2017-01-09
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NISIS is a national research school for the study of Islam and Muslim societies.
NISIS functions as a prime hub for interdisciplinary scholarly exchange in the Netherlands, strengthening research and teaching cooperation between academics of differe...
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2017-01-09
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Date: January 20, 2017
Venue: Old Observatory, Sterrenwachtlaan 11, 2311 GPW Leiden, Netherlands
The theme of the fifth annual NISIS Islamic Studies Network Day is: 'Polder Islam 2017'. Several speakers will give lectures on topics relate...
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2017-01-08
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Faculty of Oriental Studies - University of Oxford
Application Deadline: February 10, 2017
We are seeking an outstanding scholar to join the Faculty of Oriental Studies as Associate Professor of Islamic History (before 1500 CE). This post offers a ...
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2017-01-08
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Sacred Authority and Transnational Family Networks
Author: Elvire Corboz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (January 2015)
A study of Shi'i Islam explaining the transnational constitution of clerical authority
For centuries, the Shi‘i re...
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2017-01-08
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After a video emerged showing children learning how to pray in a mosque, angry parents are demanding a primary school in Holland to change its curriculum. The mosque in question, called the Ghulzar e Madina, is located in the Dutch city of Zwolle and...
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2017-01-08
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Paris has tried almost all of them, the nonconformist critics of Islam: Oriana Fallaci, Michel Houellebecq, Charlie Hebdo, Ivan Rioufol, Éric Zemmour and now a great Jewish historian of the Arab world. Georges Bensoussan, 64, will ap...
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2017-01-07
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By International Quranic Studies Association (IQSA)
In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2016 Annual Meeting in San Antonio by a grad...
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2017-01-06
2243 Views
The Making of Community in a Post-9/11 World
By Stefano Bonino
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (November 2016)
Explores what it means to be a Muslim in modern Scotland
The experience of being a Muslim in Scotland today is shaped by the glob...
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2017-01-05
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Date: February 22-24, 2017
Venue: the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK
Registration will open in the New Year. Attendance will be charged at £20 per day for the two days of the full conference program (£10 per day for stu...
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2017-01-04
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ICAS Press are pleased to announce the latest publication ‘Desire of the Aspirant: On the Etiquette of the Teacher and the Student’ is now available for sale.
The classical Islamic scholarly tradition is characterized by an emp...
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2017-01-03
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In Depth Study of Subjects Such as Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh and Their Principles
Under the guidance of Mufti Shah Sadruddin
Alim Course
The aim of the Alimiyyah curriculum is to produce Ulama (scholars) and leaders who are competent in the Islamic sci...
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2017-01-03
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It was here, in this midsize college town in the dead center of Tennessee, that a right-wing effort to ban Islamic law found one of its first sponsors. Here, too, a congressman co-sponsored a plan to “defund Muslim ‘refugees’ &rdquo...
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2017-01-02
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CILE’s New Peer-Reviewed Journal
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017
The Center for the Study of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is pleased to invite interested academic researchers to submit their contributions to a...
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2017-01-02
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The launch meeting of the Leiden Islam Academy on 7 December in the Academy Building drew just the right audience: a diverse group of people who were all in some way engaged with Islam. This was just what the directors of the Academy, Maurits Berger ...
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2017-01-01
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Religious Freedom Project Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
Application Deadline: January 27, 2017
The Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs—together with its part...
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