Entries for January 2018
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2018-01-31
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The Islamic College Monthly Lecture Series
Lecturer: Amir Dastmalchian
Date: February 22, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
Venue: The Islamic College, 133 High Road, Willesden, London NW10 2SW, UK
For many religious believers around the world, particular...
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2018-01-30
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Call for Papers
14th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology
The History of Material Cultures and Visual Arts in the Islamic Lands: Current State of Research and New Perspectives
Date: July 5–7, 20...
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2018-01-30
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When German man Arthur Wagner announced on Facebook he had converted to Islam and was now called Ahmad, he was bombarded with abuse. “Someone wrote, I should leave Germany immediately before I started building bombs,” said Mr Wagner from ...
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2018-01-29
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The 6th Annual International Conference of the Center for the Study of Conversions and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSoC)
Date: May 28-31, 2018
Venue: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
In past conferences held at CSOC, religious conversion...
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2018-01-28
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Call for Papers
Date: September 27-28, 2018
Venue: Utrecht University, Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 9, 2018
Organized by: Prof. Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University) and Prof. Peter van der Veer (Max ...
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2018-01-27
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Call for Applications
The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
Application Deadline: April 12, 2018
The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh is now offering two PhD studentships, for r...
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2018-01-27
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Call for Papers
Date: September 13-14, 2018
Venue: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK
Submission Deadline: April 3, 2018
Organizers: Khadijah Elshayyal (Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh), Giulia Liberatore (Sociology & Isl...
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2018-01-27
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Muslims prayed following a protest to mark the one year anniversary of the Trump administration's executive order banning travel into the U.S. from several Muslim majority countries, in Washington Square Park, 26 January, 2018 in New York City.
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2018-01-26
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Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify as members of the faith. But, unlike some other faiths, Islam gains about as many converts as it loses.
About a quarter of adults ...
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2018-01-25
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Date: February 15, 2018
Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX, UK
Organizer: The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies at Royal Holloway University of London
Recent years have seen new waves of political ...
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2018-01-23
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Call for Papers
Date: March 19-21, 2018
Venue: The Old Library of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 5, 2018
The Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies is a forum for discourse and presentat...
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2018-01-22
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5th Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
Call for papers
Date: October 30 - November 1, 2018
Venue: 11 W Prospect Ave, NY 10550, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 June 2018
The mai...
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2018-01-20
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A multi-disciplinary symposium on religion and ethics
Call for Papers
Date: 30 July - 3 August 2018
Venue: TBD
Papers would be welcomed on topics such as:
The right to die/euthanasia
State legislation on abortion, same-sex marriage, L...
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2018-01-20
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Instructor: Shaykh Sharif MH al-Banna
Date: May 19-20, 2018 and May 26-27, 2018
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, UK
Under the tutelage of IIDR’s very own founder, Shaykh Hasan al-Banna, this course will giv...
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2018-01-19
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Teacher: Shaykh Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Date: January 27 – July 14, 2018
Duration: 6 months (40 hours)
Organizer: Cambridge Islamic Collage
From the beginning of human history, billions upon billions of people have come and gone. From...
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2018-01-19
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13th International Conference of the SIEF Ethnology of Religion Working Group
Date: September 20-23, 2018
Venue: Siena, Italy
Politics and religion have never existed in isolation but always stood in continuous interaction throughout times. The &l...
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2018-01-19
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Lecturer: Yasmin Amin
The last session of the Islamic College’s monthly lecture series on “Humor in Islam and Muslim Civilization” was held on January 18.
Muslims today are stereotyped as humorless. Grim images of burning fl...
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2018-01-18
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Date: February 20-28, 2018
Venue: University of Religions and Denominations, Pardisan, Qom, Iran
Registration Deadline: February 14, 2018
Shiʿi Islam, with its rich and extensive history, has played a crucial role in the evolution of Islam as both...
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2018-01-17
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Dr. Fuad Sahin was named to the Order of Canada by Governor General Julie Payette on December 29, 2017. He had previously received the Order of Ontario in 2009. Originally from Turkey, Dr. Sahan immigrated to Canada in 1958 with his family and s...
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2018-01-17
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Call for Papers
Date: July 30 – August 3, 2018
Venue: Helsinki, Finland
Proposal Submission Deadline: February 14, 2018
The Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective unit of the ISBL welcomes proposals for both individual paper...
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2018-01-16
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Call for Applications
University of Tromsø, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences & Education
Application Deadline: February 14, 2018
The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Tromsø – T...
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2018-01-16
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The “Beauty Fallacy”: Religion, Science and the Aesthetics of Knowledge
Approaching Religion, Volume 7, No 2 (December 4, 2017)
Publisher: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History
Guest Editors: Prof. Alexa...
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2018-01-15
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Call for Papers
Date: September 27-28, 2018
Venue: Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien, Austria
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2018
The large bronze griffin now kept in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Pisa ...
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2018-01-14
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By Egdūnas Račius
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (January 16, 2018)
Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
The history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, surviva...
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2018-01-14
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Research Project Funded by Gerda Henkel Foundation
Call for Proposals
Application Deadline: May 16, 2018
The special program "Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements" is aimed at researchers who, with an eye to current developme...
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2018-01-14
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Department of Religious Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
Women of Islamic Studies is a crowdsourced database of women scholars who work on Muslims and Islam. This ongoing project is in its beta version. Once sufficient data has been c...
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2018-01-14
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Date: February 3, 2018 @ 11:00 - 18:00
Venue: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, UK
Organizers: Corisande Fenwick (UCL), Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), Tim Williams (UCL)
The 4th Islamic Archaeology Day, jointly hosted by SOAS a...
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2018-01-13
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Date: July 15 – 30, 2018
Venue: Qom, Iran
Organized by: Al-Hikmah Institute of Al-Mustafa International University
Al-hikmah Institute of Al-Mustafa International University organizes a summer program for Shi‘a studies. This program pr...
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2018-01-13
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Second Doctoral Conference in Religious Studies
Date: June 28-30, 2018
Venue: Center for Religious Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Organizer: Center for Religious Studies, Central European University
Abstract Submission De...
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2018-01-12
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European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) 2018
Date: June 17-21, 2018
Venue: University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Chair and Convenor: Dr. phil. Shirin Naef (University of Zurich)
This panel is an examination of the history of Shia...
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2018-01-11
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This event was a collaboration between The Revert Hub and the Islamic Society at SOAS and took place on the 1st of February 2018 in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London. It was a memorable and enjoyable evening with 3 really interesting p...
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2018-01-11
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Islam in a Changing Middle East
Publisher: Project on Middle East Political Science (December 2017)
The study of Islamist movements has often implicitly meant the study of Sunni Islamist movements. An enormous amount of political science schol...
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2018-01-09
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Director: Jay Shapiro
Producers: Suzi Jamil and Desh Amila
Islam and the Future of Tolerance is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of an unlikely conversation on a topic of grave importance, and how it changed two foes in...
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2018-01-09
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Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 5, 2018
The question of ethics (al-akhlāq (pl.) in Arabic) in the field of Islamic Studies is nascent. The domi...
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2018-01-09
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In the United States, many Muslims are reluctant to seek out mental health professionals because of the stigma attached to mental illness or because they fear that a Western-trained therapist will not understand their culture or religion.
Instead, t...
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2018-01-07
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Date: March 5, 2018 @ 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Speaker: Edin Hajdarpasic
Event Sponsor: Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
In the aftermath of the First World War, the conversion...
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2018-01-06
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Boston University
The creation of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University reflects the university’s long-standing commitment to the advancement of scholarship of the Muslim world. The In...
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2018-01-06
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Perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Date: July 23 – August 10, 2018
Venue: Bossey, Switzerland
Application Deadline: April 9, 2018
Intended for an international audience of young people (ages 20-35) interested and en...
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2018-01-06
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Date: March 3-4, 2018
Application Deadline: February 11, 2018
Organizer: The Council of European Jamaats (CoEJ)
The aim of the Youth Development Program is to develop personal and enhance leadership capacity across the youth in the Council of Euro...
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2018-01-06
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Worcester Mosque has donated almost 200 dishes-worth of food, including desserts, to its neighbors St Paul’s Hostel for the homeless.
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2018-01-05
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Call for Applications
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Disciplines: Islamic Studies, Religious Studies
Application Deadline: April 01, 2018
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen is an ambitious facu...
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2018-01-05
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Edited by Jocelyne Cesari and José Casanova
Publisher: Oxford University Press (April 27, 2017)
The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains...
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2018-01-04
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By the year 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the second-largest religious group in the US after Christians, according to projections by a leading American think tank. Pew Research Center estimates there were some 3.45 million Muslims living in the ...
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2018-01-03
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5th World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
Venue: Seville, The Capital of Andalusia
Date: July 16-22, 2018
Organizer: International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort (Co-IRIS)
Subject Fields: Arabic History / Studies,...
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2018-01-02
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Hannah Smith reflects upon her trip to the latest global unity and Islamic awakening conference in Tehran (November 23-25, 2017)
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2018-01-02
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Institute for Islamic Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: February 5, 2018
Job Status: 4 Years, Part-time, 20 Hours per week
The Department of Islamic-Theological Studies at the Faculty of Philologic...
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2018-01-02
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Date: March 19-20, 2018
Venue: Holiday Inn Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Abstract Submissions Deadline: January 20, 2018
The idea of 4th International Conference on Arts, Music, Literature and Islamic Studies (AMLIS-2018) scheduled on March 1...
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2018-01-01
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Date: March 28-30, 2018
Venue: Bandung, Indonesia
Subject Fields: Educational Technology, Humanities, Islamic History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology
International Conference on Islamic Education (ICIE) hosted by Faculty o...
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2018-01-01
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Special issue of the Journal of Muslims in Europe on ‘Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe — Local and Transnational Dimensions’
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