Entries for October 2017
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2017-10-28
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Application Deadline: January 19, 2018
Disciplines: Culture, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) has developed an international network of personal and institutional contacts to enable liaison,...
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2017-10-28
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The latest lifestyle trends for the U.K.’s Muslims came to center stage in northern Manchester city Saturday with an annual event that aims to attract around 15,000 visitors. Rauf Mirza, one of the organizers of Muslim Lifestyle Expo (MLE), sai...
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2017-10-27
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Call for Applications: Training Institute
Date: January – December 2018
First Seminar: February 2-4th, 2018
Venue: Berkeley, CA, USA
Application Deadline: November 10, 2017
The media is the most powerful vehicle for representing or misrepr...
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2017-10-26
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Call for Papers
Date: October 11-13, 2018
Venue: Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018
As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Cen...
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2017-10-25
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Publication of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Edited by Omar Kasmani and Stefan Maneval
Publisher: Revolver Publishing (January 2, 2017)
This book is a cooperation between doctoral fellows, alumni and alumnae, post-doctor...
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2017-10-24
1412 Views
Call for Applications
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Application Deadline: November 12, 2017
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki invites applications for a permanent position of University Lecturer in Islamic...
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2017-10-24
1732 Views
The Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia (JCMA) was established in Melbourne in 2003, to establish an annual residential conference based upon the thirty years of experience developed by the Jewish-Christian-Muslim conference held in Bend...
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2017-10-23
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has sent a message of support and goodwill to Canadian Muslims. “At the convention, our assembly adopted a Statement to Muslims in Canada,” wrote the Rev. Susan C. Johnson, Natio...
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2017-10-22
1942 Views
Channel 4 prompts anger and mockery after 'blacking up' white woman to show Islamophobia
Channel 4 is facing mockery after airing a documentary which went to the lengths of getting a white woman to go undercover in ‘brownface’ ...
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2017-10-22
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A Canadian Muslim women group has found a new resolve to fight discrimination in the community as Muslims celebrated its 35th anniversary a few days after the adoption of Quebec’s burqa ban. “We know that we are in a very special time and...
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2017-10-19
1403 Views
The new government study “Race Disparity Audit” is likely to stir social debates surrounding racial integration for some time. Bringing together important data about minority groups in Britain, the newly launched website clearly...
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2017-10-18
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Date: January 2-7, 2018
Venue: The Islamic College, 133 High Rd, London NW10 2SW, UK
Course Registration Fee: £50
The course ‘Islamic Studies with Spiritual Retreat’, introduces students to the academic study of Islam via an...
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2017-10-18
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Lecturer: Uriya Shavit
On 18 October, from 13:00-15:00 hours, Uriya Shavit presented a lecture entitled: “Muslims in Europe: A Clash or a Meeting of Civilizations?” The lecture took place in Wijnhaven 2.02 in The Hague.
The lecture exam...
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2017-10-18
1426 Views
Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates sai...
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2017-10-17
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The U.S. has resettled more refugees than any other country – about 3 million since 1980. Generally, in years when more people around the globe are displaced by conflict, violence or persecution in their countries, the number of refug...
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2017-10-16
1473 Views
Applications Deadline: January 1, 2018
Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change invites applications for Visiting Fellowships for the 2018-2019 academic year. This fellowship provides opportunities for outstand...
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2017-10-15
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Established in 2009 in Sydney Australia, Islamic Sciences & Research Academy of Australia (ISRA) is a product of the dialogue movement in Australia. It is a platform for cooperation between Australian Muslims and educational institutions in Austr...
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2017-10-14
1430 Views
New College of Florida
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
New College of Florida invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Islamic studies. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, teaching experience, ...
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2017-10-13
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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has upset fellow members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc by proposing that Germany introduce Muslim public holidays.
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2017-10-12
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On the 10th of March, 2017, the annual Studies of Religion in Focus ISRA conference was held at the Mercure in Central. The conference encompassed a number of workshops aimed at assisting year 11 and 12 Studies of Religion teachers to facilitate...
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2017-10-12
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Rabbi Morris Allen celebrated the holiday of Sukkot last weekend at an unusual backyard gathering that hosted men wearing yarmulkes and Muslim women draped in headscarves. A few weeks earlier, a new organization of Muslim and Jewish women delivered f...
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2017-10-12
1422 Views
Schools in Britain will no longer be able to substantially segregate boys and girls, after the court of appeal ruled that a co-educational faith school in Birmingham had caused unlawful discrimination by separating the two sexes. The court ...
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2017-10-12
1551 Views
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies was established in 1980 through an amalgamation of the old Departments of Arabic, Turkish and Persian (established in 1912, 1950 and 1951 r...
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2017-10-12
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Edited by Finbarr Barry Flood and Gulru Necipoglu
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (August 29, 2017)
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of acc...
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2017-10-12
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As hate crimes targeting Muslims and Jews rise across the United States, according to advocacy groups, the key to sparking change in Metro Detroit lies in forging ties and fighting back, activists said Tuesday. “You’ve got to speak up,&rd...
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2017-10-11
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Date: October 21, 2017 @ 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: The New Bingley Hall, Birmingham, UK
The Muslim Community is full of skilled, motivated and aspiring people. On numerous occasions, the Community has shown its amazing power! However th...
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2017-10-11
1479 Views
Application Deadline: February 28, 2018
Gorgias Press is delighted to announce that the international Classical Islamic World Book Prize (CIW) is available again for 2018. Based on the decision of an internationally renowned panel of ...
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2017-10-11
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The sound of Muslim prayer drifts out from the old pub onto the street, as men and women inside kneel on rugs laid down carefully minutes earlier. This is no ordinary congregation, and no ordinary place of worship. Since May, this community of libera...
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2017-10-11
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Mosques around Germany opened their doors to non-Muslims to dispel common myths and stereotypes about Islam. Nearly 900 mosques across Germany took part in "Open Mosque Day”, an annual event organized by Islamic associations in the country sinc...
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2017-10-10
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, (a Saudi sponsored organization which is under hard European critics on supporting Wahhabism and Daesh), discussed with Italian Interior Minister Marco Minetti sev...
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2017-10-10
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Within 40 years, given current demographic trends, the white population in France and the rest of old Europe will recede, creating a Muslim majority, a French researcher says.
Charles Gave, an economist, fund manager and political commenta...
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2017-10-09
1396 Views
The Islamic Seminary of America presented its first weekend seminar entitled “The Power of Prejudice: Race and Religion in America” on October 6-8, 2017.
This short seminar involved students in a critical, reflective analysis of how prej...
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