Entries for July 2016
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2016-07-31
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The Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) is a refereed academic journal published quarterly by ICAS Press for the Islamic College in London. The journal provides an international forum for scholars through the publication of research articles in all fields of Shi‘a studies, from the historical to the contemporary and from the theological to the philosophical.
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2016-07-31
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A Training Conference for Teachers of the New GCSE Religious Studies, Islam - First Examination 2018
The Al-Khoei Foundation in London held a conference for teachers of the new GCSE Religious Studies focusing on teaching Islam.
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2016-07-31
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Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. Indeed, if current demographic trends continue, the number of Muslims is expected to exceed the number of Christians by the end of this century and the number of Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the world's population from now until 2050.
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2016-07-28
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Application Deadline: August 19, 2016
CMC is delighted to announce the recruiting for three new positions as part of the recently launched Four-Year Program in Islamic Studies. Applications from scholars in Islamic Studies to apply are invited in th...
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2016-07-27
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Open Theology journal invites groups of researchers, conference organizers etc. to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered as topical issues for vol. 2017.
Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journ...
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2016-07-27
1914 Views
Muslim leaders in the United States have begun to register a million voters to help combat Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims.
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2016-07-27
1992 Views
More U.S. employers are taking steps to make Muslims feel accepted and safe at work, as their faith comes under scrutiny with the rise in terror attacks and calls by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for a ban on Muslim immigrants.
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2016-07-26
2178 Views
American Islamic Outreach has been working with local Muslim Business to set up Quran Kiosks and Stands.
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2016-07-26
2922 Views
The British Muslim Heritage Centre (BMHC) is a non-political organization.
External organizations that may hire space within the Center for their own events and activities may have certain political views and opinions. However, these views...
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2016-07-25
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Diploma in Usul al-Deen is a unique program dealing with the fundamentals of Islam at an extraordinarily deep level. The program consists of courses on the pillars of Islam as well as dawah to help encapsulate and present the fundamentals to the peop...
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2016-07-25
1991 Views
For the past six years the Religious Freedom Project (RFP) at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs has been the global center for cutting edge research into the meaning, value, and impact of religious fr...
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2016-07-25
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Here are five facts about the size and makeup of the Muslim population in Europe based on the Pew Research Center’s most recent population estimates.
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2016-07-24
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Three Collaborating Research Fellowships /Postdocs on the Theme “Religion and Migration: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy”
Application Deadline: September 15, 2016
Uppsala University is an international research un...
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2016-07-24
2165 Views
The Australian TV presenter Sonia Kruger has called for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia, agreeing that “the more Muslims we import, the more danger we are in.”
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2016-07-23
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The first Islamic online eLearning platform
The Junior Hawza Program
The Islamic Syllabus project began in 2009. It was launched as a result of a conference between several Islamic Schools (madressahs) from around Australia, held at the Imam Hasan...
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2016-07-21
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Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought
Islam in the 21st Century: Challenges & Opportunities for Social Work with Muslims
Call for Papers
Deadline: 15 August 2016
Guest Editor: Dr. Altaf Husain, Howard Un...
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2016-07-20
2130 Views
The Jewish Museum Berlin invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the framework of the Jewish-Islamic Forum which includes the history of Jews in the Arab-Muslim world, debates and dialogs on current relations between Jews and Muslims both within and outside Israel, etc.
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2016-07-20
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government announced that Goldsmiths, University of London lecturer Dr Aminul Hoque, a Bangladeshi Muslim, has been appointed as a Trustee for Royal Museums Greenwich. Dr Hoque’s position is voluntary and runs for four years.
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2016-07-19
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Edited by Tahir Abbas
Publisher: Routledge (2017)
1,377 pages
This major works collection surveys the nature of Muslim diasporas in the west from a sociological perspective, exploring the issues of migration, integration, identity, politics, Islam...
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2016-07-19
2583 Views
Rep. John Bennett, R-Sallisaw, who in the past has called Islam "a cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out" has proposed an interim study on radical Islam, Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the radicalization process.
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2016-07-18
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Data from the Pew Research Center has revealed the youngest and oldest religious groups in the United States. U.S. Muslims in the survey have a median age of 33 and about four-in-ten Muslim adults in the U.S. are under the age of 30. The average age within Judaism is 50 years old, Catholics (49 years old), Orthodox Christians (40 years old), Buddhists (39 years old), Hindus (33 years old) and the median age of the entire U.S. population is 46 years old.
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2016-07-16
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Despite heated campaign rhetoric and the Orlando shooting, new polls show that the American public’s views of both Islam and Muslims have become more favorable. Here’s why.
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2016-07-16
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President Barack Obama clobbered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday for suggesting that America should deport Muslims who profess a belief in Islamic Sharia law, telling a gathering of diplomats in Washington that the idea is 'repugnant.'
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2016-07-15
2915 Views
eHawza is an electronic Hawza program (Islamic Seminary) in the English language. eHawza utilizes modern technology to deliver Islamic Studies all around the world. eHawza was founded and launched by Dr Sheikh Mansour Leghaei in Sydney in 2001....
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2016-07-13
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The 3rd workshop in the series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Dialogue
Date: July 21-22, 2016
Venue: Erlangen, Germany
The third workshop from "Key Concepts in Interreligious Dialogue" series, is hosted by the “Lehrstuhl fuer Oriental...
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2016-07-13
1872 Views
Admission to M.A. Program in Islamic Studies (Systemic Approach) 2016-2017
Al-Mustafa International University
Registration Deadline: July 31, 2016
Introduction:
A systemic approach to Islam provides the following advantages: 1) It takes an organ...
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2016-07-13
2569 Views
JIHAD: A Story of the others is a 2015 documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award winning Norwegian director Deeyah Khan. The film is produced by Khan's production company Fuuse.
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2016-07-13
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Famous German journalist Martin Lejeune has announced his reversion to Islam, pronouncing shahada, the declaration of faith, in front of hundreds of Muslims.
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2016-07-12
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It had been 10 days since Omar Mateen, a self-declared adherent to the Islamic State, massacred 49 people at an Orlando nightclub. And Nezar Hamze, a police officer in the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, wanted to prepare this mosque’s c...
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2016-07-12
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In a field off a rural stretch of Glasgow Street, a decades-old dream is slowly taking shape. There, the Kitchener-Waterloo Islamic Association is constructing what it is touting as the largest Islamic Center in Canada on a 4.5-hectare (11-acre) plot...
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2016-07-11
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Edited by Josef Meri
Publisher: Routledge (July 6, 2016)
The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of...
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2016-07-11
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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne joined Muslims in fasting on Wednesday, June 22nd and then took part in the Iftar (fast-breaking meal) with the community at the Sayeda Khadija Center in Mississauga. “I am honored to participate in the fast with ...
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2016-07-11
1974 Views
When Mona Eldadah started this camp four years ago, the idea was mainly about getting fasting Muslim kids off the couch during the holy month of Ramadan, and into activities that were both creatively stimulating and unifying.
Now, the camp has reach...
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2016-07-10
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5th Annual Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School
Call for Papers
Date: October 27-29, 2016
Venue: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 17, 2016
The Science, Religion, and Culture program a...
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2016-07-10
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Date: October 31 to November 2, 2016
Venue: The Sigtuna Foundation (Sigtuna, Sweden)
The Researching Religious Controversies Conference aims to discuss and delve into a range of themes and challenges that researchers may face when studying religi...
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2016-07-09
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McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies was founded, along with the Islamic Studies Library (ISL), in 1952, and since 1983 both have been housed on the main campus in Morrice Hall.
Until 1 June 2001, the Institute was a teaching unit of the...
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2016-07-09
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The largest annual summer gathering for Muslim students
Date: July 15 - July 17, 2016
Venue: University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
The FOSIS Annual Conference is the largest gathering of Muslim stude...
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2016-07-08
2084 Views
Introduction to Islamic Ethics by the University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education
Date: 18-19 February 2017
Venu: Department of Continuing Education, Rewley House, 1 Wellington, Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, UK
This weekend...
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2016-07-08
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Project Start Date: September 2014
Project Finish Date: January 2019
Research Area: The multi-cultural society
This project addresses how Muslim political thought in Europe is affected by societal structures, and, conversely, how the development o...
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2016-07-07
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A court in Bavaria has ruled against restrictions on wearing headscarves for law students who are undergoing practical training in the justice system in the German state.
The Augsburg administrative court upheld a complaint by a 25-year-old Muslim s...
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2016-07-07
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A new member of Virginia’s Republican State Central Committee apologized over the weekend for posting anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric on Twitter and Facebook — much of which echoed incendiary comments by presumptive GOP presidential ...
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2016-07-05
1882 Views
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) 88 Annual Conference
Date: November 4, 2016 to November 6, 2016
Venue: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, Florida, US
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American...
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2016-07-05
1938 Views
A group of Christians, Muslims and Jews join hands to build a place where they can all worship: Berlin's "House of One" is aiming to become the world's first building to combine a church, a synagogue and a mosque under one roof.
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2016-07-05
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Muslims in Bayonne, New Jersey, have wanted an Islamic center and prayer hall for nearly two decades — they currently pray in the cramped basement of an elementary school.
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2016-07-04
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The workshop will explore questions about Islamophobia in eastern Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Themes include: History & Present Attitudes to the Other, National & EU Politics, The Lived Experience, Theory & Methodology.
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2016-07-03
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Qur'ans Exhibition at Freer|Sackler
Date: October 15, 2016 to February 20, 2017
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US
A Quran from fghanist...
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2016-07-03
1902 Views
Annual Conference of the Sociology of Religion Study Group (SocRel)
Date: 12 – 14 July 2016
Venue: Lancaster University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Professor Lori Beaman (University of Ottowa)
Professor Gordon Lynch (Kent U...
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2016-07-02
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Type: Workshop
Date: August 22, 2016 to September 1, 2016
Location: Qum, Iran
The University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran) is pleased to offer the 3rd short-term course on Shi'a Islamic Studies to be held from August 22, to Sept...
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2016-07-02
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This conference, entitled "Shia Minorities in the Contemporary World: Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality", focused on Shia Muslims who have migrated from the Middle East and South Asia over the last 100 years, and brought together research...
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2016-07-02
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An Iftar & Dinner party was organized by Progressive Muslim Forum (PMF) UK, International under the chairmanship of Khurshid Alam on 21st of June 2016 at Berrymede School Main Hall, Osborne Road, Acton, and London, W3 8SJ.
This event was a chari...
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2016-07-01
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by Diana Masooma Beatty (Author)
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 9, 2014)
This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Talee throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying t...
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2016-07-01
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The cities of Qum and Mashhad in Iran hosted the 7th round of Catholic – Shi’a dialogue early this May.
The Catholic group which was invited by Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali comprised of Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, head of the Benedictine Conf...
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