Entries for November 2016
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2016-11-26
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Date: December 15-16, 2016
Venue: Center for Studies in India and South Asia (CEIAS), School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), 190-198 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris, France
A two-day conference with a public keynote bri...
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2016-11-25
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Leiden Studies in Islam and Society (LSIS) Series, Volume 5
Edited by Umar Ryad
Publisher: Brill (October 2016)
Collections: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017
The present volume focuses on the political per...
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2016-11-24
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Call for Papers
Date: May 18-19, 2017
Venue: Fundación BBVA. Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca. Paseo de Recoletos, 10, 28001 Madrid, Spain
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2017
In recent years, the study of religious otherness has e...
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2016-11-24
1944 Views
Twenty six mosques and community centers in Luton (Bedfordshire, England) have written to the local council to express their opposition to the controversial Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. In the letter, Luton Council of Mosques and the Sunni Cou...
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2016-11-23
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Call for Papers
Date: December 19-20, 2016
Venue: Tehran, Iran
Organizer: Ham-Andishan Mobtaker, Tehran, Iran
Deadline for Submission: December 3, 2016
The participation certificate in the “International Conference on Islamic Sciences...
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2016-11-22
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The Markfield Institute of Higher Education (MIHE) was established in September 2000 with the objective of being a center of creative excellence in academia guided by Islamic ethos. MIHE is unique, as it combines the richness and high standards of tr...
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2016-11-22
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A public Isha prayer held by the Muslim student association in the University of Michigan has turned into a show of support and unity, after hundreds of non-Muslim students made a big circle of protection around praying students.
“Some individ...
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2016-11-21
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A Spatial Approach to the Hajj Pilgrimage
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Organized by: The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), the Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW - Humboldt University of Berlin) and Center for Mode...
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2016-11-21
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The latest FBI annual hate crime report shows a sharp spike in the number of hate crimes nationwide, with attacks against Muslims increasing the most sharply.
In one year, anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 67%, from 154 inc...
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2016-11-20
1707 Views
The day after President-elect Donald Trump appointed a man accused of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as his chief strategist, two of the nation’s largest Jewish and Muslim advocacy groups formed an unprecedented partnership to fight b...
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2016-11-20
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With the grace of Allah, the Almighty, the Shura Council in its 10th term of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE) held its 7th assembly on 29th – 31st October, 2016 CE \ 26th – 29th&n...
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2016-11-19
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Call for Papers
Date: April 15-16, 2017
Venue: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Theology, Mashhad, Iran
Submission Deadline: December 30, 2016
Subject Areas: Theology, Philosophy, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Ethics and Justice ...
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2016-11-18
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Call for Papers
Date: June 12-13, 2017
Venue: Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2016
Organized by: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, the Migration Ins...
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2016-11-18
3534 Views
Attainment of a four-year college degree in the United States, often regarded as a key asset for economic success, varies by race and gender. But the share of people completing a college education also differs by religion, with members of s...
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2016-11-17
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Date: December 17, 2016 @ 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Venue: Shalimar Banquets, 280 W. North Ave., Addison, IL 60101, US
Registration: FREE Admission. Online Registration is required.
This Seerah Conference is about L...
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2016-11-17
1823 Views
Karen Krüger, journalist at culture desk of the conservative weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, has released a new book in which she embarks on a journey through what she terms an ‘Islamic Germany’, portraying divers...
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2016-11-16
1984 Views
The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History is a private research institute attached to the Foundation for Åbo Akademi University. The aim of the Institute is to promote research in religious and cultural history. I...
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2016-11-16
1701 Views
Annual International Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers
Date: June 28-29, 2017
Venue: Yerevan State University, Armenia
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 25, 2017
The Chair of Arabic Studies at Yerevan State University is pl...
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2016-11-15
1868 Views
Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text
Call for Papers
Date: 30 March - 1 April 2017
Venue: Tübingen, Germany
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2016
Recent years have seen new...
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2016-11-15
1655 Views
French authorities have started shutting down some mosques and prayer halls they found to be preaching radical Islamic ideology since December 2015, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Of the country’s 2,500 mosques and prayer hall...
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2016-11-14
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46th annual MSA-PSG conference
Date: December 22-25, 2016
Venue: Phoenix, AZ, USA
We live in a time of unique circumstances. On one hand, as a community of Muslims in the West, we are in a position to learn, adapt, integrate into society, and infl...
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2016-11-13
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Lecturer: Faisal Mohammed (Cambridge Islamic College)
Date: November 14, 2016
Venue: Wesley Church, Christ's Pieces, Cambridge CB1 1LG, UK
Science is rooted in observation, experimentation and repetition. It is a human endeavor based on a human-de...
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2016-11-11
2155 Views
Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice
by Tania Saeed (Author)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (October 17, 2016)
- Provides an interdisciplinary study which combines gender studies and security discourses
- Moves beyond analysis of Muslims as a ...
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2016-11-10
1897 Views
Launched in August 2004, the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) exists to initiate, support, and conduct research on religion, involving scholars and projects spanning the intellectual spectrum. Its mandate extends to all religions, every...
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2016-11-09
1499 Views
Al-Mahdi Institute’s Research Seminars are a platform that brings together academic researchers, postgraduate students and other practitioners from different institutions for the dynamic exchange of ideas and research. The key objective is to s...
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2016-11-08
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A civil rights organization for American Muslims says the FBI questioned Muslims in at least eight states over the weekend seeking information about a possible threat from al-Qaeda to carry out pre-election terrorist attacks.
The individua...
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2016-11-07
1541 Views
Date: November 19, 2016 @ 11:00 – 13:00
Venue: Bait ul Aman Mosque, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD3 9JT, UK
For at least a decade there has been a growing movement of young British Muslims who choose to travel abroad to study at religious semin...
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2016-11-07
2246 Views
Volume One, Issue Two
With a monographic section devoted to al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044)
Call for papers
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017
A refereed journal with an international editorial and advisory board, the Shii Studies R...
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2016-11-07
1806 Views
The Prince of Wales, on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, has warned of the deliberate destruction of "mankind's cultural heritage". Prince Charles was presenting a digital replica of what could be oldest fragment of the Koran, discovered las...
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2016-11-06
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Shah Malik ducks to enter a space that, from the street, looks like any other storefront in the central Omonia district. The neighborhood — with blocks of shops offering imported spices, halal meat or the milky tea popular in South Asia &m...
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2016-11-05
1719 Views
Date: November 14, 2016 @ 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue: Healey Family Student Center, Tondorf Rd, Washington, DC 20007, USA
The position of Jesus in the Qur’an is among the most contentious areas in Muslim-Christian dialogue. Many Christian scholars ...
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2016-11-04
2255 Views
Edited by Sabine Schmidtke
Publisher: Oxford University Press (March 31, 2016)
Oxford Handbooks Series
Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been ach...
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2016-11-03
1827 Views
2nd GIS Congress
Date: July 7, 2017 @ 1:00 to 3:30 pm
Venue: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, France
If rationality denotes what complies with the mind, irrationality, by...
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2016-11-03
1903 Views
Defying stereotypes, a growing number of Muslim women are launching their own businesses in the UK and across the world, cashing in on the rapidly growing market for Muslim-focused consumer goods.
According to a report by Thomson Reuters, Muslim con...
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2016-11-02
2163 Views
Months after opening Scandinavia’s first female-led mosque in Copenhagen, many questions still surround the worshiping house, with some praising it as a pioneer movement and others criticizing it as unnecessary. “It was fantastic and very...
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2016-11-02
1834 Views
The Queen of Denmark has urged Muslims arriving in Europe to adopt Western values in an extraordinary intervention in the migration debate. Queen Margarethe II said it was “not a law of nature” that asylum seekers automatically integrated...
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2016-11-01
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The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies.
The area of study includes Muslim societies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia,...
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2016-11-01
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Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies
Call for Papers Special Issue
Submission Deadline: February 10, 2017
Lead Guest Editor:
Jaan S. Islam, Department member of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Research associate at Emer...
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2016-11-01
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Call for papers
Submission Deadline: November 10, 2016
Publisher: MacroWorld Publishing Co.
Editor-in-Chief: Julian Kunnie, The University of Arizona, USA
Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture is a refereed journal dedicated ...
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2016-11-01
1957 Views
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has said that from next year it will offer an alternative to the highly controversial Prevent counter-extremism program.
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