Entries for October 2020
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2020-10-31
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The Cambridge Muslim College Online Learning Platform, home to exclusive Lecture Series and Courses that you can take at your own pace and in your own space. The topics are as follows:
Sira: A Journey of Transformation
Experience the life...
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2020-10-31
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Mauree Turner, a 27-year-old member of Oklahoma City’s Muslim community, became Muslim after learning about the faith from her father, who converted while incarcerated. Black and nonbinary, Turner is also a community organizer who’s long ...
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2020-10-31
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The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed.
A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. Pre...
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2020-10-31
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The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) ability to frame contemporary debates on Islam in a global context has been boosted by the findings of a recent peer-reviewed journal article. Published by the Pacifi...
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2020-10-30
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While there have been prominent Black Muslim figures such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, Black Muslims as a whole are rarely featured. In a way that’s not surprising: according to a Muslim Council of Britain study, the vast majority of British ...
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2020-10-29
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After a man killed three people Thursday (Oct. 29) at the Catholic cathedral in Nice, France, Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the French Catholic community, offering prayers for the victims as well as wishes that “the beloved French peo...
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2020-10-28
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Rage is growing across the Muslim world at the French president and his perceived attacks on Islam and the prophet Muhammad, leading to calls for boycotts of the French products and security warnings for France’s citizens in majority-Muslim sta...
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2020-10-27
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Racialization and Worldwide Islam
18th Annual Duke-UNC Conference
Call for papers
Date: February 20-21, 2021
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2020
The Islamicate Graduate Student Association organizes 18th Annual Duke-UNC Conference, o...
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2020-10-27
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Signing a celebratory certificate commemorating 25 years of fruitful dialogue, leaders from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization in Tehran m...
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2020-10-25
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The Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative, a new research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Aga Khan Museum. The aim of the IAMCC is to ...
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2020-10-25
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Date: 21 November 2020 – 30 January 2021
Venue: Online Event (via Zoom)
The IAMCC has launched a new online eight-part monthly series entitled “Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World – Past, ...
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2020-10-25
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Starting Date: January 11, 2021
Venue: Online
Application Deadline: December 13, 2020
The course is accessed via Hedwig (Moodle) which is hosted by the Cambridge Theological Federation.
Bridging the Great Divide: the Jewish-Muslim Encounter is a ...
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2020-10-25
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) has announced an essay competition for youth who want to reflect on the theme “The Future of Interreligious Dialogue.” The contest marks the 50th anniversary of the WCC’s Office of Interreligious ...
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2020-10-23
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The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham is delighted to announce a new Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Faith Based Leadership, hosted by the Department’s Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understandin...
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2020-10-11
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Date: December 5-6, 2020
Venue: Online Event via Zoom
Organizer: American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Harvard University
The annual Islamic Philosophy Conference was initiated at Harvard University (April, 2019) with participants c...
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2020-10-10
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University of Edinburgh
Awards: PhD, MPhil, MScR
Study Modes: Full-time, Part-time
In this research area, you can pursue interdisciplinary study of Islamic thought and practice, and of historical, theological, ethical and political encounters betw...
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2020-10-10
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By Harvard University
Date: October 1, 2020 – April 2, 2021
Duration: 4 weeks
Time Commitment: 5-10 hours per week
Platform: edX
Instructor: Prof. Ali S. Asani, Harvard University
Learn about the Quran, the central sacred text of Islam, t...
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2020-10-10
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Date: November 25, 2020
Venue: Online via Zoom
This conference aims to bring together postgraduate students, from around Australia and overseas, who are researching topics relating to Islam. In 2020, the conference will be held online, via Zo...
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2020-10-08
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By Jon Armajani
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: May 20, 2020
This book argues that ever since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which established a Shia Islamic government in Iran, that country’s religious and political l...
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2020-10-08
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Three-Day Online Course
Date: 7, 14 and 21 November 2020
Venue: Online
Organizer: Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University
Why all the hype about Islam when drafting a constitution? Why are constitutions so central, to...
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2020-10-07
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In this film, director Nadja Frenz introduces Muslim women who have set out to find their own path to emancipation. Together they investigate the role of women in Islam and study the Surah, the chapters of the Quran. Can the western concepts of gende...
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2020-10-07
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Walter Benjamin argued that in an age of mass technology the increased reproducibility of art objects would degrade their ‘authenticity’ and ‘aura’. In the Shia community of Sydney, photographs and moving images proliferate al...
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2020-10-06
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Volume 5, No 2 (2020)
Editor-in-Chief: Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University
Publisher: Islamic Sciences and Research Academy of Australia
The Australian Journal of Islamic Studies is an open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated t...
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2020-10-06
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Following the murder of a caretaker at a Toronto mosque earlier this week, the head of a Muslim organization called for the government to do more to “eradicate this scourge” of white supremacism in Canada.
Mohamed-Aslim Zafis was stabbed...
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2020-10-05
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A new poll suggests that nearly half of all members of the ruling Conservative Party in the United Kingdom believe Islam is incompatible with British life.
The poll, conducted by YouGov on behalf of Hope Not Hate, surveyed 1,213 members of the Conse...
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