Entries for December 2020
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2020-12-31
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President Emmanuel Macron recently relaunched a long-contentious debate about the role of Islam in French society, and two deadly attacks in October brought Islamist extremism once more into the limelight. But many of the issues highlighted in 2020 h...
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2020-12-29
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Muslim Awards for Excellence is an organization with a vision ‘To elevate the brand of Muslims in Canada by recognizing & motivating high achievement, positive and productive contributions to society by Muslims in Canada.’ In an effor...
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2020-12-29
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A three-year research project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and hosted by Cambridge Muslim College.
Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology is a new research project led by Dr Ramon Harvey, Aziz Foundation Lecturer...
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2020-12-28
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Call for Papers
Date: October 8–10, 2021
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2021
The conference welcomes papers that focuses on certain texts, ideas or individuals that were perceived by Muslim communities as c...
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2020-12-28
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Call for Papers
Date: October 27-29, 2021
Venue: Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021
This conference, organized in the framework of the ERC-funded Embedding Conquest: Naturalizing Muslim rule in the ...
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2020-12-27
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Editor: Saad D. Abulhab
Publisher: Blautopf Publishing
Publication Date: July 18, 2020
This handbook is a reference tool intended to help authors, scholars, and anyone else provide accurate and standardized quotations from the Quran, both from lin...
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2020-12-26
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Date: January 12-February 2, 2021
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Organizer: Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, The Aga Khan University
Muslims have been present in the UK in sizeable numbers since the 1960s. Many are born here living their...
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2020-12-25
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Call for Application
Application Deadline: January 12, 2021
The Open University is pleased to offer Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding through the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (OOC DTP). The DTP is a con...
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2020-12-24
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Call for Application
Application Deadline: January 13, 2021
Midlands 4Cities offers two routes for PhD study:
1) Open Doctoral Award
These awards invite you to design and agree a research project with academic supervisors within the M4C partnersh...
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2020-12-20
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Date: January 11-27, 2021
The course is divided into 3 sections:
• Theology – Including the Islamic conception of God, the soul, and the afterlife; beliefs about scripture and revelation; Islamic views of other religions; and life’...
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2020-12-15
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Professor of Immunology at University of Mainz, Germany Ugur Sahin offered his COVID-19 vaccine for free access under the auspices of the United Nations.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with IRNA, Sahin stressed compliance with commitments to the...
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2020-12-11
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An 800-page inquiry into the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attack, which claimed the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers, sheds light on the murky online world of far-right extremists.
Analyzing the report’s findings, experts on online radical mov...
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2020-12-05
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The Department of Classics and Religious Studies in the University of Ottawa is unique in combining expertise in Late Antiquity and the contemporary world. Our The faculty includes eight internationally recognized experts in the languages, lite...
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2020-12-05
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Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online, edited by Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg), is the world's foremost digital historical-critical reference work on the Quran. We are seeking professional scholars with demonstrable expertise in a vari...
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2020-12-05
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Date: July 23-24, 2021
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
This virtual conference is co-organized by Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania), David Larsen (New York University), and Hany Rashwan (University of Birmingham), and hosted by the Oxford Comp...
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2020-12-05
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Secondary school pupils are sharing their thoughts about what it means to be a Muslim in Britain, thanks to free teaching and learning resources developed at Cardiff University.
Discovering Muslims in Britain is a program of nine lessons based on cu...
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2020-12-04
445 Views
Date: July 12-13, 2021
Venue: Ottawa, Canada
Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions d...
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2020-12-03
340 Views
In a record-breaking pledge, the Muslim community announced $5 million to support the redevelopment of Mississauga Hospital, one of three sites that together comprise Trillium Health Partners (THP), as part of THP’s larger redevelopment plan. I...
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2020-12-02
332 Views
At difficult times of COVID-19 pandemic, success stories provide a source of inspiration spreading hopes for a better future. Now more than ever, the success stories of Muslim women around the world are very important in a bid to shatter damaging ste...
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2020-12-01
324 Views
Five times a day, tens of millions of phones buzz with notifications from an app called Muslim Pro, reminding users it’s time to pray. While Muslims in Los Angeles woke Thursday to a dawn notification that read, “Fajr at 5:17 AM,” u...
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