Entries for November 2018
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2018-11-30
1029 Views
The Canadian-Muslim Vote, a non-profit, non-partisan organization increasing democratic engagement within the Muslim community, held a very well-attended Visit My Mosque Day across Canada on Saturday, November 10, 2018. Several mosques across the cou...
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2018-11-30
1395 Views
Date: April 9-14, 2019
Venue: Qom, Iran
Registration Deadline: March 1, 2019
Come and learn “Nastaliq” — the timelessly elegant calligraphy style predominantly featured in classical Persian manuscripts.
Let the most acclaimed ca...
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2018-11-30
982 Views
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) sent an open letter to the federal government urging them to designate January 29 as a National Day of Action against Hate and Intolerance. The letter has been endorsed by over 100 Canadian Muslim organ...
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2018-11-30
1227 Views
Edited by Victor Roudometof
Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions
Publisher: MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (October 2018)
(This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Glocal Religions tha...
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2018-11-28
1243 Views
Call for Papers
Date: July 9-12, 2019
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 16, 2018
Session Conveners:
• Mary Lou Rasmussen, Australian National University
• Elisabeth Arweck, University of Warwick
O...
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2018-11-27
1064 Views
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: December 27, 2018
The junior professor should represent the entire field in research and teaching.
Knowledge of Arabic is required, that of Ottoman Turkish i...
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2018-11-27
1039 Views
CILE 7th Annual International Conference
Call for Papers
Date: March 23, 2019
Venue: Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 20, 2018
The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is pleas...
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2018-11-27
1152 Views
Granada ENIS Spring School 2019
Date: March 18-22, 2019
Venue: Escuela de Estudios Árabes, CSIS, Cuesta del Chapiz 22, 18010 Granada, Spain
Application Deadline: January 25, 2019
The Granada Spring School will be organized by ENIS (the Eur...
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2018-11-25
1106 Views
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: January 5, 2019
Educational Requirements: PhD in Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invi...
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2018-11-24
1233 Views
Date: March 2-7, 2019
Venue: Qom, Iran
Registration Deadline: January 20, 2019
The Islamic and Iranian Women’s Studies Intensive Short Course which has been organized by the University of Religions and Denominations on 2 -7 March 2019, endea...
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2018-11-21
1205 Views
LUCIS Annual Conference
On 14 and 15 November, the LUCIS Annual Conference took place in Leiden. This year’s LUCIS conference Approaching Shiʿi Islam in the Academy was perhaps the first conference in the Netherlands to focus specifically on t...
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2018-11-20
1313 Views
Date: February 20, 2019
Venue: Shilling Lecture Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EQ, UK
The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the Imam Sadr Foundation (Lebanon...
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2018-11-19
1169 Views
Date: August 31 - September 3, 2019
Venue: Gdańsk, Poland
The International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR) holds bi-annual conferences that serve as a meeting point for scholars from all over the world to share the latest researc...
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2018-11-19
1212 Views
17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR)
Call for Papers
Date: June 25-29, 2019
Venue: Tartu, Estonia
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2018
Religions are works in progress. New ideas, doctrin...
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2018-11-18
1235 Views
Theme: “Communicating Religion”
Call for Papers
Date: July 9-11, 2019
Venue: Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2019
As scholars of religion, we are all tasked with communicating religion in ...
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2018-11-18
1044 Views
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: December 3, 2018
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. and a track record in, and current plan for, excellent research in the periods from l...
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2018-11-17
1211 Views
The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University promotes and produces innovative research and scholarship, exemplary teaching and training, robust public engagement, and generous support of individual faculty initiatives at the inter...
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2018-11-17
971 Views
A Special Issue of Religions
Call for Papers
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Chiara Formichi
Publisher: MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Manuscript Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019
The history of Islam in Southeast Asia ha...
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2018-11-16
1095 Views
A unique and amazing experience summed up what many of us felt at the end of the first Scottish Interfaith Youth Camp 2018 (SIYC), held in Aberfoyle, near Stirling. The idea of a SIYC developed from the Wings of Unity project, a collaborative initiat...
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2018-11-15
1228 Views
Islamic universities are beginning to spring up in countries around the world with new institutions opening in the US, Italy and in some European countries.
The aim is to provide higher education for immigrant Muslim communities and to tackle concer...
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2018-11-15
1148 Views
A Special Issue of Religions
Call for Papers
Guest Editor: Dr. Anna-Mari Almila
Publisher: MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Manuscript Submission Deadline: April 1, 2019
The complex interconnections between religious b...
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2018-11-14
1225 Views
For years Hartford Seminary has provided quality online learning with knowledgeable faculty and an engaging, intellectual student body of diverse identities and faiths. Starting in Fall 2017, our Master of Arts in Religious Studies* program will be o...
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2018-11-14
1159 Views
The Social Science Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has published a new study titled “Islam and Muslims in Germany: The population’s view”. Just over 2000 respondents were questioned on the phone with respect to ...
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2018-11-14
1084 Views
Researchers have recreated the acoustic atmosphere of the ancient Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba. The sounds in the prayer hall have changed over the centuries.
When a building is slated for an addition or a renovation, preservation-minded...
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2018-11-13
1182 Views
Call for Papers
Date: January 21, 2019 @ 9:30am to 5:30pm
Venue: Cardiff University Main Building, Council Chamber 1.77, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 7, 2018
This one-day conference brings together acade...
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2018-11-13
1169 Views
A Palestinian-American and a Somali ex-refugee become the first female Muslims in Congress
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2018-11-12
1101 Views
Call for Papers
Date: March 26-27, 2019
Venue: Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, UK
Deadline for Submission: December 14, 2018
This two-day conference explores the diverse faith lives, identities, experiences, practices, and beliefs of self-i...
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2018-11-12
1004 Views
Many more U.S. Muslims identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party than the GOP (66% vs. 13%), but the share who are Republican has held steady over the last 10 years, including after the election of President Donald Trump, according to a new a...
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2018-11-11
972 Views
In a country where the debate over “who belongs?” has deeply divided Ms Merkel’s government, fueled massive demonstrations and propelled the rise of anti-immigrant populism, the 16 and 17-year-olds confront versions questions every ...
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2018-11-10
1067 Views
The famous Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has converted to Islam and taken the new name “Shuhada’ Davitt.” In a tweet which is thought to be from her account, O’Connor said she had ditched the Catholic Church for good in a...
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2018-11-10
1041 Views
The majority of Britons are tolerant of Islam and Muslims but a strong minority isn’t, a new poll has revealed.
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2018-11-08
1089 Views
“Dialoguing Women in Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religions”
Call for Papers
Date: March 1, 2019
Venue: University of Zimbabwe
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 31, 2018
This will be a one-day conference held in p...
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2018-11-06
1371 Views
Birmingham University
The Centre aims to provide a world-class research and learning experience, with critical understanding and appreciation of both Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. As a multi-disciplinary Centre, it offers a wide range of subje...
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2018-11-05
1251 Views
From 1996 to 2006 the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin has hosted the Working Group Modernity and Islam, a Berlin-based interdisciplinary research network of scholars working at various universities and extra-university institutions on the questions of ...
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2018-11-05
1440 Views
Call for Papers
Date: March 4-5, 2020
Venue: Qom, Iran
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2019
The Research Center for Islamic Philosophy and Theology affiliated to Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy (ISCA) was established in 1994 with the...
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2018-11-04
1235 Views
The Master's in Islam in the Modern World is a one-year program that offers you an in-depth interdisciplinary framework to engage topics and debates concerning Islam and modernity.
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2018-11-04
1510 Views
A list of useful and informative documentaries that present excellent overviews of contributions to science and technology from Muslim Civilization is provided. They serve as a window into a golden age with so much more to discover. We remember the w...
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2018-11-03
1919 Views
According to the new national survey, at least half of teens say they are “religious nones” - those who do not identify with a religion or religious group. Digging deeper, we found a more complicated picture of faith and spirituality amon...
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2018-11-02
1133 Views
A three-day international conference was hosted and organized by Centre for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University (IZU) from October 14 to 16 in which around 20 speakers from around the world discussed challenges of s...
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2018-11-02
1040 Views
An invitation to a distinguished Muslim scholar to preach at a eucharist service in an Oxford church on Sunday has triggered complaints from traditionalists.
Monawar Hussain, who was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honors last year for ...
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2018-11-01
1036 Views
Six-month program aims to increase diversity and follows calls for greater involvement.
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