Entries for June 2018
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2018-06-30
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Call for Proposals
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 14, 2018
Following the success of its 2016/17 Workshop Grants scheme, BRAIS will be offering two further grants of up to £1000 in 2018.
The grants aim to provide opportunities to dev...
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2018-06-28
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Date: October 25-27, 2018
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
While sociological research on religion in urban contexts has proliferated in recent years, the city has less frequently been taken explicitly as a relevant dimension in the study of religion.
On t...
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2018-06-27
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Date: 27 June – 01 August 2018
Venue: Islamic collage, 133 High Road, Willesden, London, NW10 2SW, UK
Instructor: Alexander Khaleeli
At the heart of our existence burns a question: ‘Why am I here?’ It is a question each of us mus...
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2018-06-27
1585 Views
Author: Mohammad Ali Reza’i Isfahani
Publisher: ICAS Press
The science of tafsīr (exegesis of the Qur’an) was one of the earliest academic activities in Islam. Since the Qur’an’s revelation, a variety of methods and approach...
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2018-06-24
1825 Views
A Special Issue of International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion (IJIDI)
Guest Editors: Dr. Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto and Dr. Perla Innocenti, Northumbria University
Religious and secular pilgrimages have been part of huma...
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2018-06-22
1226 Views
Members of the Victoria Islamic Center know what it’s like to lose a place of worship. “We welcome you. This is your place,” Abe Ajrami, treasurer for the Islamic Center, said Sunday morning to a group of about 30 Unitarian Universa...
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2018-06-18
1227 Views
University of Winchester
The Winchester Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace (CRRP) is dedicated to helping to create a free, just and peaceful world. It aims to do this by sharing excellence in knowledge, understanding, skills, relationship...
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2018-06-16
1849 Views
Date: October 10-11, 2018
Venue: Bochum, Germany
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe of the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) will hold an international workshop “Religious Contacts i...
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2018-06-16
1248 Views
Date: July 5, 2018
Venue: University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK
Organizer: Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC), University of Leeds
This part-time Certificate of Higher Education (Cert HE) explores Middle Eastern societies, religions...
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2018-06-15
1208 Views
Date: August 4-5, 2018
Venue: London & Online
Instructor: Imam Yassir Fazaga
Did you know that there are over 80 sexual references in the Quran? And that the person who spoke about sex most openly and honestly was the Prophet Muhammad (s)? Did...
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2018-06-14
1353 Views
If being a young Muslim is hard, being a young Muslim woman is especially difficult. Muslim women who wear the hijab are on the front lines of deflecting attacks against Islam due to their visibility. So much of the Islamophobic narrative surrounding...
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2018-06-14
1265 Views
Muslim societies have sometimes faced criticism for failing to adequately educate women. Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai have contributed to this ...
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2018-06-13
1308 Views
Maslaha (Good/Benefit): Legal and Ethical Dimensions
Date: 30 July - 4 August 2018
Venue: Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey
In collaboration with Ibn Haldun University, the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), member of...
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2018-06-13
1576 Views
By several measures, young adults tend to be less religious than their elders; the opposite is rarely true.
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2018-06-12
1339 Views
More than 350 Muslim organizations and mosques have collectively written to the Conservative Party urging them to launch an internal inquiry following allegations of Islamophobia. The calls for an inquiry have supported those made by the Muslim Counc...
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2018-06-10
1427 Views
After a debate about whether it's promoting religion, the state House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to require North Carolina's public schools to display in a prominent place the words "In God We Trust."
Supporters of House Bill 965, which passed 94...
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2018-06-09
2065 Views
By Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi
Edited and annotated by: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
Foreword by: Professor Noel Q. King
Publisher: Al-Ma’arif Publications, Toronto, Canada (2017)
This book deals with the history of the Shi‘a Ithna-‘Asha...
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2018-06-08
1321 Views
Advanced Arabic Scholarship Residential Diploma
By Cambridge Islamic College
First Academic Year Begins: September 17, 2018
Duration: 1 Year
Application Deadline: July 31, 2018
Arabic Language Mastery Immersion Program is the flagship full-time ...
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2018-06-07
1201 Views
The Role of Women in Islam’s House of Worship
Date: July 7, 2018
Venue: London & Online
Instructor: Professor Jasser Auda
Mosques are safe spaces for prayer, reflection, community and learning. But sadly, so many of the mosques of our t...
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2018-06-06
1211 Views
Italian scholar Silvio Ferrari has launched a massive project that will be of interest to NRM scholars and others researching religion.
The project aims at producing an online Atlas of the religious minorities’ rights in the Council of Europe ...
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2018-06-05
1142 Views
Date: Wednesdays (June 13, 20, 27 and July 11, 2018) @ 4:00 - 5:30
Venue: Religious Freedom Institute, 1050 30th Street NW, Washington, D.C., USA
This summer, the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) will host a series of engaging conversations design...
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2018-06-05
1295 Views
The Quran Mobile is a project of American Islamic Outreach Foundation (AIOF). It is designed to help the Muslim community to reach out and educate people about the nature of Islam.
AIOF serves to inform, educate, and dispel misconceptions about the ...
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2018-06-04
1464 Views
The course of History of Muslim-Christian Dialogue forms an essential part of the program of study at PISAI. The historical path taken in this dialogue is based on a study of fundamental documents and important figures. On occasions, certain of the I...
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2018-06-03
1679 Views
The Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), founded by the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), is a study and research center whose teaching and scientific activities provide the necessary preparation for an in...
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2018-06-03
1381 Views
Most Christians in Western Europe today are non-practicing, but Christian identity still remains a meaningful religious, social and cultural marker, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 15 countries in Western Europe. In addition to relig...
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2018-06-02
1365 Views
Date: June 20-21, 2018
Venue: The University of Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, SO22 5FT, UK
Organized by: The Centre of Religion Reconciliation and Peace
A quick review of contemporary global events confirms that religion and culture are st...
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2018-06-02
1140 Views
The following is part of an open session of a four-day conference organized by the Focolare Movement, entitled: ‘Together to give hope. Christians and Muslims on march with the charisma of unity.’
This session was attended by numerous le...
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2018-06-01
1670 Views
On 5th May 2018 the “Imam Mahdi” Islamic Centre of Rome officially began its religious and cultural activities. The Opening ceremony started in the early afternoon with a conference on the “Role and Responsibility of Islamic Centers...
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