Entries for October 2016
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2016-10-31
1933 Views
Syrians in Germany say many of the country's Arab mosques are more conservative than those at home. Over two months, a dozen Syrians in six places of worship in three cities told Reuters they were uncomfortable with very conservative messages in Arab...
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2016-10-29
1753 Views
Date: April 24-25, 2017
Venue: De Montfort University, the Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Organizers:
- Dr Rajnaara Akhtar, De Montfort University, Leicester
- Prof. Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam ISSR
Non-state registered Mu...
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2016-10-27
1709 Views
Call for Papers
Date: July 14-15, 2017
Venue: Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HD, UK
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 16, 2016
The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society (OHS) in conjunction with Newman University a...
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2016-10-26
1805 Views
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium.
The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Ar...
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2016-10-25
2334 Views
MEND (Muslim Engagement & Development) is a not for profit company working towards enhancing the active engagement of British Muslim communities in our national life, particularly in the fields of politics and the media.
MEND aims to achieve thi...
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2016-10-24
2020 Views
The revelation of an alleged domestic terrorism plot to kill Somali immigrants in southwest Kansas serves as a glaring illustration of what experts say is a growing concern. Across the country, they say, anti-government extremists are shift...
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2016-10-23
1671 Views
Hundreds of Muslims have staged a mass prayer outside the Rome's Colosseum in protest against the closure of mosques in Italy. An estimated 1.6 million Muslims live in Italy, meaning it has the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe. Yet there are only eight official mosques in the country.
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2016-10-22
1795 Views
Application Closing Date: November 8, 2016
The LAWALISI project (an ERC Advanced award) is looking to recruit two postdoctoral researchers with a focus in pre-modern Imami Shi’i law, particularly the formative and classical periods. These two-...
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2016-10-21
3987 Views
Call for Papers for Vol. 4 No. 2
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2016
Publication Date: December 31, 2016
Publisher: the American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD)
Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture is a peer reviewed ...
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2016-10-21
1764 Views
An FBI-led program to establish “shared responsibility committees” to intervene at an early stage to prevent or counteract radicalization was canceled. The committees would have included mental health workers, clergy and counselors in local communities.
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2016-10-20
1540 Views
5th International Krakow Study of Religions Symposium
In memory of Walter Burkert (1931-2015)
Date: November 7-9, 2016
Venue: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Keynote addresses:
Jan N. Bremmer, University of Groningen, Emir...
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2016-10-19
1759 Views
An FBI strategy to counter terrorism - based on the UK Prevent program - is aimed directly at Muslim children in the United States.
The FBI's strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools aims to recruit teachers and school official...
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2016-10-18
1570 Views
Date: December 14-15, 2016
Venue: School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, UK
Keynote speaker: Professor Jocelyn Maclure, Laval University
This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on the relationship between r...
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2016-10-17
1645 Views
Date: November 4, 2016 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue: The Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham, UK
The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Post Graduate Forum, in collaboration with the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) is delighted...
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2016-10-17
2017 Views
The purpose of the EASR Working Group on Religion in Public Education is to critically study European ways of having or not having education about religion/s and to help promote a study-of-religions (SOR)/religious-studies (RS) approach to education ...
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2016-10-16
1611 Views
France has a "problem with Islam" and there is "too much" unwanted immigration, François Hollande has acknowledged in an explosive new book in which the Socialist president controversially claims that "the veiled woman of today" will...
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2016-10-15
1471 Views
Date: October 23, 2016
Lecturer: Taha Ghayyur
As Canada marks Islamic History Month every October, it's an opportunity to explore the vibrant history of Islam and Muslim presence in Canada.
On October 23, 2016, Br. Taha Ghayyur, Director...
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2016-10-15
1523 Views
Date: December 13-14, 2016
Venue: UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Organized by: the EASR Working Group on Religion in Public Education
In contrast to other existing networks and organizations dealing with religio...
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2016-10-15
2039 Views
Islam’s Non-Believers, a new film by the award-winning film-maker Deeyah Khan, was aired on 13 October 2016 on ITV Exposure at 10:40-11:40pm London time.
The (Negative) film is the first in depth documentary following the Council of Ex-Mu...
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2016-10-15
1721 Views
The ECRI suggested the British press should not report when terrorists are Muslims. A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to Marc...
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2016-10-13
1651 Views
Semester 1: Speaker Series 2016
Topic: Ahl-al-Bayt, To Love Or Not To Love?
Date: October 26, 2016
Venue: Student Central Lecture Theatre (SC 0.51), Student Central, Bradford University, Richmond Rd, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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2016-10-12
2646 Views
BBC World Service commissioned a documentary to follow the Cambridge Muslim College 2015-16 Diploma students to Rome and the Vatican. Some of the brightest and best students of Islam in Britain round off their education at the Cambridge Muslim Colleg...
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2016-10-11
1882 Views
Date: October 21, 2016 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Venue: The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
This exciting one-day event at the University of Birmingham looks to explore - and indeed celebrate - the role and place of Muslims ...
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2016-10-10
2065 Views
A recent study by Pew found that a record near-half of all refugees that entered the United States in FY2016 were Muslim, marking the highest number of Muslim refugees recorded since religious self-reporting data became available 14 years ago.
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2016-10-09
1754 Views
Faith-based organizations and religious leaders must be included in efforts to address the challenges of human trafficking and forced migration, representatives of the United Nations, international organizations, Member States and civil society have ...
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2016-10-08
1733 Views
Date: October 30, 2016
Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue: Finsbury Park Mosque, 7 Saint Thomas's Road, London N4 2QH, UK
Organized by: MAB London South
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) invite people to a workshop on “Misconceptions...
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2016-10-07
1722 Views
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for curiosity-driven basic research. Since 1930, it has served as a model for protecting and promoting independent inquiry, prompting the establishment of similar ...
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2016-10-06
1806 Views
By The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (ISMC) and Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC)
DATE: November 3-4, 2016
Venue: The Aga Khan University, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2DA, UK
The inter...
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2016-10-06
1496 Views
Interreligious dialogue and cooperation provided the basis of talks on 30 September and 1 October 2016 addressing the theme “Towards an Integrated World,” a series of high-level discussions among the Muslim Council of Elders led by the Gr...
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2016-10-06
1733 Views
The chief cleric of Cairo’s prestigious mosque and university, H.E. Professor Dr Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar al Sharif, has decried the present-day “civilizational crisis” of poverty and insecurity and called fo...
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2016-10-05
2152 Views
During Muharram and Safar the #HussainSavesLives campaign is encouraging Shias to give blood in the name of Imam Hussain (as). The story and sacrifice of Imam Hussain (as) and the message he taught is one we should continue to spread, not ...
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2016-10-05
1811 Views
Fourth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies
Date: April 11–13, 2017
Venue: Chester Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Chester
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2016
Call for panels and papers...
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2016-10-05
2344 Views
A FILM BY AHMED PEERBUX & SEAN HANIF WHYTE
The Compelling True Story of One of Britain’s Earliest Muslim Convert Communities.
The film screening and Q&A with Director Ahmed Peerbux & Abdulhamid Evans:
Date: October 22, 2016 @ 7:0...
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2016-10-04
1970 Views
The 30th interfaith meeting has been held in the Italian town of Assisi. Hundreds of religious leaders and scholars attended the event. They discussed various issues including inter-religious dialogue and the refugee crisis.
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2016-10-03
1792 Views
Leading religious scholars representing the major world religions have issued a declaration saying it is imperative that religions be a “positive resource for human rights”. The Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions w...
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2016-10-03
2131 Views
At the Islamic Center of Passaic County, which draws about 2,000 people each Friday for communal prayers, the talk is about how this year is different. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, people of other faiths in the surrounding community were...
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2016-10-02
2248 Views
Islamic Reformulations was a three-year Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellowship (GULF), funded by Research Councils UK and administered by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Fellowship, awarded to Professor Robert Gleave ...
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2016-10-01
1905 Views
By The Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK
The Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK was opened in September 2005 by Yusuf Islam, formerly musician Cat Stevens in front of 400 guests. Islam is the second largest religion in Britain and, indeed...
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2016-10-01
1806 Views
Catholics in America seem to have an unfavorable opinion about Muslims, according to new research findings. A study conducted by the Bridge Initiative showed that only 14% of American Catholics have a favorable view of Muslims and over 50% of Catholic media tends to connect Islam to terrorism.
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