Entries for November 2020
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2020-11-30
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France’s Interior Minister has announced plans to dissolve the country’s largest anti-Islamophobia organization, the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF). After the killing last month of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who s...
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2020-11-30
360 Views
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has decided to designate March 15 as the "International Day to Combat Islamophobia" each year. The OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) has passed a resolution in this respect in their meeting in Niamey...
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2020-11-19
390 Views
Workmen discovered one of the oldest Islamic burial sites in Spain. Archaeologists expect the majority of more than 400 graves dating from the eighth century, which were only discovered in recent weeks, to be exhumed by the end of the year. Workers c...
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2020-11-18
316 Views
Date: December 10, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Facebook Live: @ReligiousFreedomInstitute
Youtube: Religious Freedom Institute
A spate of terrorist attacks by Muslim immigrants has again hit Europe. France and Austria have announced a set of severe ...
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2020-11-17
377 Views
Date: January 25 – May 15, 2021
Application Deadline: January 21, 2021
Platform: Harvard Extension School
Instructor: Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University
The course is an introduction...
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2020-11-16
370 Views
BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize 2021
Application Deadline: December 31, 2020 - 5.00 pm GMT
The Sixth Round of the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
The British Association for Islamic Stu...
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2020-11-15
366 Views
This project is led by Professor Jocelyne Cesari and is supported by the University's Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion.
Euro-Islam is a network of scholars who conduct comparative research on Islam and Muslims in Europe...
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2020-11-15
362 Views
Facing protests in the Muslim world over his response to terror attacks in France, President Emmanuel Macron phoned a New York Times media columnist to rail against “bias” in the English-language media and accuse some newspapers of &ldquo...
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2020-11-15
426 Views
This project is led by Professor Oliver Scharbrodt and is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant.
This interdisciplinary project investigates the transformation of Shii Islam in the Middle East and Europe since the 1950s. Specifica...
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2020-11-15
323 Views
Call for Papers
Date: April 20-21, 2021
Venue: Bologna, Italy
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 20, 2020
The Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) organizes an on-line workshop open to all PhD students based in Italian universi...
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2020-11-14
330 Views
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2021
An international round table organized on May 4 and 5, 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christ...
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2020-11-14
362 Views
How We Get Along, a two-year study of diversity by the Woolf Institute, is due to conclude that most people are tolerant of those from different ethnic or national backgrounds, but many have negative attitudes based on religion.
Religion is a &ldquo...
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2020-11-14
329 Views
Date: December 8, 2020 @ 1pm - 5pm
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Research on Covid-19 has highlighted its impact on Black and Asian Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) communities (Public Health England, 2020). However, these studies only offer a limited unde...
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2020-11-13
385 Views
The mosque that took more than a century to open, surviving legal, political and financial challenges, has closed in less than a week, a temporary victim of the coronavirus pandemic.
Athens, the Greek capital, had not had a dedicated, purpose-built ...
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2020-11-13
342 Views
A coalition of senior faith leaders in England have challenged the government’s ban on communal worship, arguing that it has no scientific basis. A joint letter from the leaders of the country’s Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Sikh ...
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2020-11-13
339 Views
Terror attacks in France and Austria have put Europe’s 25 million Muslims back in the spotlight. The unwanted attention is familiar. Discussing Muslims as a security risk invariably reaches fever pitch after an Islamist-inspired terrorist act. ...
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2020-11-12
592 Views
Spoken images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images
Date: July 5-9, 2021
Venue: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Application Deadline: April 1, 2021
The main objective of this school is to investigate the image–text relations in...
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2020-11-12
380 Views
New guidance has been issued for journalists reporting on Muslims and Islam.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation has produced the guidance, which outlines key questions for journalists to consider and includes relevant case studies.
The pu...
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2020-11-11
332 Views
Call for Papers
Date: November 12-13, 2021
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2021
Convenors: Hans-Jürgen Becker (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Kinga Dévényi (Corvinus University of Budapest, and The Ori...
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2020-11-11
356 Views
European Council President Charles Michel on Monday called for the creation of a European institute to train imams as a way to curb hate speech and prevent terrorism. Speaking in Vienna, where he paid tribute to the victims of last week’s terro...
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2020-11-04
400 Views
Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative is a long-term project to create a central archive of Muslim lives, arts, education and cultures from across the UK. Our aim is to collect and document the presence and contribution of Muslim life in Br...
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2020-11-04
398 Views
University of Bremen
In our project we research the role of the contemporary media for modern religious communities. We concentrate on the digital (webpages) and on the printed media (journals, newspapers). We aim to answer the following questions: ...
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2020-11-03
391 Views
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA)
Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Application Deadline: January 7, 2021
An interesting opportunity for a post-graduate student from our friends at the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge - if you are...
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2020-11-02
478 Views
Successful completion of the two years will provide a solid foundation and a stepping-stone for further Islamic studies courses such as CIC’s Alimiyyah Degree level program. Well above A-Level standard achieved – high proficiency in class...
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2020-11-01
360 Views
A Special Issue of Religions
Call for Papers
Guest Editor: Prof. Ellen Posman, Baldwin Wallace University
Publisher: MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 31, 2020
Manuscript Submissio...
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2020-11-01
383 Views
Starting Date: November 23, 2020
Duration: 8 weeks
Muslim Congress is pleased to offer two new courses for Winter! These 8 week introductory courses are a great way to develop strong foundational understandings of core Islamic tenets.
The “G...
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2020-11-01
362 Views
The potential for Zakat financing to fill funding gaps for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was the opening subject of a three-part webinar series co-organized by the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University ...
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