Entries for February 2017
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2017-02-27
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A 1-Day Course to be held at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Date: April 1, 2017 @ 9:00 am – 5:15 pm
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Rd, Oxford OX3 0EE, UK
Instructor: Dr Basil Mustafa
Islam is a universal fait...
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2017-02-27
2079 Views
A documentary by British-Iraqi director Hoda Yahya Elsoudani tackles the Sunni-Shia divide from the perspective of two young sisters. Raised in the UK, the 30-year-old filmmaker was born to Iraqi refugee parents fleeing war, and she has always been f...
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2017-02-26
1454 Views
The Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference
Date: March 4-5, 2017
Venue: Campus Y Reading Room, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Sponsored by: Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, UNC Departme...
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2017-02-25
2061 Views
George Mason University
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
George Mason’s program in Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) equips students with the tools and analytical skills for understanding major issues and debates in the study of...
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2017-02-24
1673 Views
Postgraduate Symposium
Call for Papers
Date: May 12-13, 2017
Venue: University of Cambridge, UK
Organized by: The Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
Abstract Submission Deadline: 13 March 2017
The University of Cambr...
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2017-02-23
1750 Views
An Australian school has adopted a policy allowing male Muslim students to refuse to shake hands with women. Two principals at the Hurstville Boys Campus of Georges River College, in Sydney, told guests at its 2016 presentation day that some stu...
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2017-02-22
1746 Views
An anti-Islamophobia motion proposed by the Canadian government stalled Thursday in Parliament and now awaits a new proposal next week from the opposition Conservative party. The motion, M-103, was tabled in Parliament by MP Iqra Khalid, a Muslim. It...
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2017-02-21
1645 Views
Visiting Scholar Brown Bag Lecture Series
With Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi, Ferdowsi University, Iran
Date: February 22, 2017 @ 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Venue: Commerce Building, Room 3006
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies&r...
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2017-02-20
1748 Views
After an election year that stirred up animosity across racial and religious lines, a new survey has found that Americans are actually feeling warmer toward people in nearly every religious group — including Muslims — than ...
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2017-02-19
1978 Views
Volume 4 of Muslim Heritage Series
Edited by: Farhad Daftary, Amyn B. Sajoo, Shainool Jiwa
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd (September 29, 2015)
Series: Muslim Heritage Series
The world’s 200 million Shi’i Muslims express their fait...
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2017-02-18
2996 Views
California Islamic University (CIU) offers a full time program of study which caters to English speaking Muslims. We have attempted to combine the best and most practical ways of studying Islam, while remaining within the par...
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2017-02-16
1843 Views
Interactions from a Theological and Historical Perspective
Date: February 22-23, 2017
Venue: Swiss Centre for Islam and Society, University of Fribourg, Avenue de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, Sw...
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2017-02-16
2102 Views
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily freezing immigration from seven predominantly Islamic countries would affect only about 12% of the world’s Muslims, according to estimates from a 2015 Pew Research...
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2017-02-15
1673 Views
University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Group Symposium
Call for Papers
Date: May 12-13, 2017
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 24, 2017
The relationship between Shiʿism and governance—whether through doctrinal beliefs, political movements...
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2017-02-15
1930 Views
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline (for the First Issue): March 30, 2017
Submission Deadline (for the Second Issue): August 30, 2017
The Islamology journal is a new academic periodical spearheaded by a team of scholars at the Mardjani Foundation....
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2017-02-15
1542 Views
Berlin's Labor Court has ruled that the city violated a teacher's rights by denying her a job. The woman had been told that she could not wear her headscarf while working because of an ideological neutrality law. Berlin may not deny candidates for te...
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2017-02-14
1504 Views
A Series of Online Courses
The World Federation are running a series of online courses entitled ‘Introduction to Shīʿa Studies’. The first in the series will cover Ḥadīth with Shaykh Kumail Rajani. This will include ten lessons running f...
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2017-02-13
1622 Views
More than 100 people attended the opening of the Light House, a new community center and incubator for faith-based social entrepreneurship in Raleigh, N.C. The Light House is dedicated in memory of the three Muslims killed in Chapel Hill, N.C., ...
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2017-02-13
1559 Views
Muslim leaders want governments to create plan to combat systemic racism, Islamophobia. Ihsaan Gardee, the executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, called on lawmakers to address the problem of Islamophobia. A coalition of Cana...
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2017-02-12
1637 Views
American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting 2017
Call for Papers
Date: November 18-21, 2017
Venue: Boston, MA, USA
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2017
The Sociology of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion serves as a bridge bet...
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2017-02-12
2045 Views
In 1909, Professor Ismar J. Peritz of Syracuse University conceived the idea of forming a new organization for professors and scholars of Biblical Studies. Its purpose was to stimulate scholarship and teaching in religion…The group continued t...
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2017-02-09
1874 Views
The NFL Players Association expressed its support Thursday for Muslim players in the league amid the controversy generated by President Trump’s immigration order. NFLPA officials said the union reached out to the families of Muslim players in t...
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2017-02-08
1667 Views
Is a burqa ban against the Swiss constitution? How do you deal with a Muslim schoolboy who refuses to shake his female teacher’s hand? Do burkinis contravene swimming pool hygiene rules? As such questions are becoming more prevalent in Switzerl...
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2017-02-07
1938 Views
Semester Two of the Part-time Hawza Program
Date: March 6, 2017 – July 27, 2017
Deadline for Applications: February 20, 2017
Enrollment for Semester Two of the Part-time Hawza Program starting 6th March 2017 to 27th July 2017 is now OPEN!
E...
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2017-02-07
1660 Views
The 8th Annual Islamophobia Conference
Date: April 21-23, 2017
Venue: UC Berkeley
Organizer: Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP), University of California, Berkeley & Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Le...
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2017-02-07
1886 Views
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) in co-ordination with The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) would like to announce the annual Believe and Do Good (BADG) campaign. A competition of compassion running throughout the month of ...
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2017-02-06
1568 Views
The Abdallah S. Kamel Center at the Yale Law School for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization invites applications for its 2017-2018 research fellowships. The fellowships are designed to bring promising junior scholars to the Law School in order ...
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2017-02-06
1563 Views
Gunman shot dead six worshippers at Quebec mosque last week. Non-Muslims act as ‘human shields’ in Toronto, Edmonton and St John’s. Hundreds across Canada gathered around mosques to form protective barriers – described by orga...
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2017-02-06
2573 Views
President Heidi Hadsell is pleased to announce that Dr. Seyfeddin Kara will occupy the Imam Ali Chair in Shi’i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools. The chair is the first dedicated to Shi’i Studies in North America. It provid...
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2017-02-06
1605 Views
Understanding Australian and Global Perspectives
Studies of Religion in Focus Conference 2017
Date: Mar 10, 2017
Venue: Mercure Hotel, 818-820 George Street, Sydney, Australia
The Studies of Religion in Focus Conference is an interfait...
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2017-02-05
1651 Views
Date: April 22-23, 2017
Venue: Yorkshire & London
This unique conference gathers together some of the most prominent Muslim community leaders in the West to bring solutions to the following problems, and restore the confidence and hope that is ...
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2017-02-04
1514 Views
Call for Papers
Date: 29 June –1 July 2017
Venue: Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 3, 2017
Organized by: Newman University, UK, University of Kent, UK, York University, Canada,...
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2017-02-04
1713 Views
The powerful Grand Mosque of Paris will pull out of a new, state-sponsored Muslim foundation, criticizing “interference” in how Islam is exercised, at a time of simmering tensions surrounding France’s second-largest faith, its spoke...
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2017-02-03
1638 Views
A Cincinnati area mosque announced it would join the burgeoning church sanctuary movement in the U.S., possibly becoming the first Islamic house of worship to do so. The announcement came on the eve of the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, w...
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2017-02-02
1707 Views
Is it appropriate to read from the Koran during worship in a Christian church? This month, people close to America’s new head of state, and spiritual advisers to Britain’s long-standing one, have been forced to consider that question. It ...
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2017-02-01
1756 Views
Muslim Congress is pleased to announce commencement of the Prehawza Spring 2017 term. Classes will begin on Wed, Feb 1, 2017. All classes are in English and are held weekly on the same day based on Eastern Standard Time (EST) as indicated...
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2017-02-01
1698 Views
UK media organizations have made string of corrections and retractions as result of one man’s campaign for fair coverage. British media organizations have been forced to make a string of corrections and retractions over recent months relating t...
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