Entries for May 2017
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2017-05-31
1969 Views
When the Islamic Institute of America bought a Baptist church, the plan initially was to remove the pews — until the mosque’s leader objected, in part because he saw keeping the benches as a way of showing Islam’s compatibility with...
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2017-05-29
1527 Views
Salamislam group on the occasion of Holy Month of Ramazan invited all interested parties especially those who are interested or converted to Islam on sharing videos.
The group says:
“Ramadan has already come and we all have something to wait...
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2017-05-29
2662 Views
Achieving the goals of educational projects of IRIC, a group of students and researchers of Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) visited Abrishami synagogue in Tehran in May 2017. The attendees included students of the Islam and the West In...
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2017-05-28
1830 Views
Call for Papers
Date: April 17-18, 2018
Venue: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 17, 2017
The Religion and Spirituality in Society Research Network sets out in its conference, journal, b...
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2017-05-27
1465 Views
Call for Papers
Date: November 20 - 21, 2017
Venue: Paris, France
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017
The ICID 2017: 19th International Conference on Islam and Democracy aims to bring together leading academic scientists, resear...
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2017-05-26
1855 Views
The Al-Salam Institute Islamic Scholarship Program (ISP) is at the forefront of Alimiyyah Programs in the West. Al-Salam Institute presents its pioneering six-year Islamic Scholarship Program.
Through part-time study and a dynamic selections of modu...
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2017-05-25
1059 Views
That time of the year has come.
A month to repent from our wrong-doings and sins.
It's the month when the devils are chained, the gates of hell are closed and those of paradise are opened.
It's the month the holy prophet used to pray to witness. I...
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2017-05-25
1654 Views
Founded in 2011, the Religion in Society Research Network explores the relationship between religion in society and the changing nature of spirituality. The International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society brings scholars, teachers an...
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2017-05-25
1653 Views
On June 1, 2017, The CEIAS (Center for South Asian Studies) in cooperation with the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) held a seminar on “Material Culture and...
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2017-05-25
1417 Views
As President Donald Trump engages in his own, idiosyncratic kind of religious and cultural diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and Israel, back in the United States efforts by faith groups to understand each other better seem to be gathering pace. Some of the ...
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2017-05-24
1518 Views
In the wake of the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester this week, Muslims along with the rest of the diverse British city are mourning the dead and tending to the wounded. But for Muslims in particular, the suicide bombin...
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2017-05-23
1602 Views
Even before this week’s terrorist bombing at a pop concert in Manchester, England, people across Europe and in the U.S. and Canada had pervasive concerns about the threat of extremism in their countries. Across 12 countries surveyed f...
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2017-05-23
5256 Views
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in ...
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2017-05-23
1548 Views
Call for Papers
Date: October 5-6, 2017
Venue: Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017
The Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions in cooperation with Latvian Society for the Study of Religions and E...
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2017-05-23
1798 Views
New Diversities, Volume 18, No. 1, 2016
Published by Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
New Diversities is an international, peer reviewed, scholarly and professional journal, published by the Max Planck Institute ...
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2017-05-23
1939 Views
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World
Edited by: Zaid Eyadat, Francesca M. Corrao, Mohammed Hashas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US (June 14, 2017)
Series: Middle East Today
This is the first work in English that examines the ...
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2017-05-22
1692 Views
Call for Papers
Date: August 2-4, 2017 and December 4-6, 2017
Venue: The Old Library of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK
Sponsored by: Oxford Academic Symposia
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 14, 2017
The Oxford Symposi...
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2017-05-21
1715 Views
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Opportunities for Scholars for the Academic Year 2018-2019
Application Deadline: November 1, 2017
THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community ...
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2017-05-20
2232 Views
Call for Abstracts
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017
This is a Call for Abstracts to contribute to the Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (target publication: 2018). We are particularly in...
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2017-05-20
2995 Views
“Local and Global identities. Social change and Ibadi diaspora communities.”
Date: May 20-23 2017
Venue: The University of Tokyo, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Komaba Campus), Tokyo, Japan
The first international conference on Iba...
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2017-05-18
2564 Views
Academy Award-winning documentarian Thomas Lennon marshaled 40 teams of filmmakers from around the world to collaborate on his latest project, the thought-provoking “Sacred,” which explores the role of religion in everyday life. Divided i...
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2017-05-16
1621 Views
Broadcast regulator Ofcom has awarded community licenses to two Muslim radio stations in London. Radio Minhaj, which will be run by the Minhaj-ul-Quran International organization, will provide a community radio service for black, Asian and ...
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2017-05-15
1707 Views
The Islamic Collections
The Chester Beatty Library contains a world famous collection of manuscripts, prints, miniature paintings, early printed books and objets d’art from countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. The C...
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2017-05-14
1747 Views
Date: July 14-16, 2017
Venue: UK
The Qur’an tells us, through example and parable, of many cosmological laws that God has decreed. We learn that our actions have deep consequences upon our lives in this world. From obedience t...
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2017-05-12
1624 Views
Americans are more likely to view Muslims, who make up 1 percent of the U.S. population, as extremists if they do not know one personally, according to a February poll by the Pew Research Center. The same survey found that 60 percent of Americans who...
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2017-05-11
1413 Views
Freie Universität Berlin
Application Deadline: May 31, 2017
Intellectual richness and unparalleled variety characterize the world of Islam throughout its history. From the 9th century CE onwards, Muslims, Christians and Jews shared a common ev...
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2017-05-11
1635 Views
Date: August 21-27, 2017
Venue: Qum, Iran
Shi’a Studies is a discipline in which the formation of Shi‘ism, its expansion in various countries, and its current situation in the world, as well as its belief system, moral teachings, ritual...
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2017-05-09
1570 Views
Call for Papers
Date: October 19-20, 2017
Venue: Al-Mustafa Open University, Qom, I.R.Iran
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 20, 2017
Organized by Deputy of Research Department in Seven Languages: Persian, Arabic, Azeri, Turkish, Urdu, English a...
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2017-05-05
1594 Views
Call for Application
The Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern, Switzerland
Application Deadline: May 21, 2017
The Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities at the...
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2017-05-05
1750 Views
By Abu Mansur Ahmed Ibn Ali al-Tabarsi
Editor: Abu Yahya al-Hosseini
Translator: Fizza Haidari
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 30, 2017)
Veritas-Publishing released this March the first of a series of volume dedicate...
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2017-05-05
1706 Views
The largest mosque in Scandinavia has opened in Sweden, which is one of the least religious and most atheistic nations in the Western world, reports have said, costing the Qatari government $3.30 million to build.
Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islam...
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2017-05-04
1698 Views
Jews and Muslims in Europe have a common cause in resisting attacks on minority religions and defending religious freedom, Europe’s top rabbi has said. Speaking on the eve of Passover, which begins on Monday, chief rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt war...
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2017-05-04
1639 Views
Swedish authorities have started an investigation into possible arson after a fire damaged the facade and roof of a mosque on the outskirts of Stockholm overnight, according to a police statement. Nobody was injured in Monday's fire in the ...
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2017-05-03
1573 Views
The German parliament has supported a draft law banning women working in the civil service, judiciary and military from wearing full-face Islamic veils.
Burqas and niqabs will be prohibited in selected professions as part of the legislation, which w...
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2017-05-03
1552 Views
The International Basketball Federation has agreed to allow athletes to wear head coverings after a growing number of calls from female Muslim basketball players around the world.
Muslim women basketball players have won their battle to wear hijab w...
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2017-05-02
1557 Views
The 5th AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop
Call for Papers
Date: July 6-7, 2017
Venue: Al-mahdi Institute, Weoley Park Road, Birmingham B29 6RB, UK
The 5th annual fiqhī workshop at Al-Mahdi Institute aims to facilitate scholars...
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2017-05-02
1579 Views
Date: September 28-29, 2017
Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon (FCSH/NOVA), Lisbon, Portugal
The first Forum of Researchers in Islamic Contexts (FRIC) was held in January 2013. That year, we wanted to surv...
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2017-05-02
1490 Views
The President of Austria has called for all women to wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslims to fight “rampant Islamophobia”.
Alexander Van der Bellen, the left-wing former Green Party leader who narrowly beat a far-right candidate t...
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2017-05-01
1649 Views
SOAS University of London
The Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS was established in 1995, and aims to promote scholarship and research in all areas of Islamic Studies, past and present. The study of the Qur’an and Hadith from the Arabic texts, an...
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2017-05-01
1475 Views
On Monday, April 24, the California Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) hosted the 6th Annual Muslim Day at the Capitol (MDAC) in Sacramento. Almost 800 participants, of which more than 700 were Muslims from across the stat...
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