Entries for July 2017
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2017-07-31
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Special Issue – Social Inclusion, Volume 6, Issue 2
Call for Papers
Editor: Melissa J. Wilde (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Deadline for Abstracts: September 15, 2017
Submission of Full Papers: January 15-31, 2018
Although scholars...
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2017-07-31
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GainPeace, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization, has launched a new campaign titled “Truthful Man” to educate Americans on the true manners of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and countering a hate campaign that went up last month....
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2017-07-31
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Findings from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey of U.S. Muslims
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2017-07-27
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MOSQUERS 2017
Date: September 09, 2017
Venue: Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB T5J 4X8, Canada
Submissions Deadline: August 7, 2017
The Mosquers Film Festival is North America’s leading film competition with a focus on promoting awa...
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2017-07-26
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Edited by David Garbin and Anna Strhan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (June 29, 2017)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by as...
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2017-07-25
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Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2017
To encourage and support early-career scholars seeking to publish in leading academic journals, Brill is awarding an annual prize for an outstanding article in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies. Brill...
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2017-07-24
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The International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS) was conceived in 2003, in Murcia, Spain, during the convening of the Fourth International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies (ILS). A group of participants came together to take steps to es...
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2017-07-23
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Stanford University
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: September 15, 2017
The Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, a tenured Associate Professor or a tenured F...
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2017-07-23
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Sociology of Islam, Volume 5, Issue 2-3, 2017
Editors-in-Chief: Gary Wood, Virginia Tech and Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University
Guest Editors: Ray Jureidini and Sari Hanafi
Publisher: Brill
Sociology of Islam (SOI) p...
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2017-07-22
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Call for Papers
Date: December 8-10, 2017
Venue: Bristol Hotel, Bonn, Germany
Sponsor: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, University of Bonn
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 8, 2017
This year’s international conference is devoted to the stu...
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2017-07-22
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Date: Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2017
Venue: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5324, USA
We are pleased to announce our first annual workshop, which will take place on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, a convenien...
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2017-07-22
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released an update on anti-Muslim incidents in the second quarter (April-June) of 2017. CAIR’s quarterly report indicate...
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2017-07-21
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With the establishment of the Toronto chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, thirty-four Muslim and Jewish women have come together to support each other against hostile acts directed toward both groups. One of the Sisterhood’s largest cha...
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2017-07-21
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The first ever action plan specifically designed to enable religious leaders to prevent incitement to violence - the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes - was launched o...
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2017-07-19
1662 Views
Boston has adopted a new method to combat Islamophobia. City authorities have begun a poster campaign encouraging bystanders to make a non-confrontational intervention in case they see harassment against Muslims. The campaign started on July 17 when ...
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2017-07-16
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‘What is Consciousness and Why Observers Matter in Quantum Theory’
Date: September 8, 2017 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: Trinity Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ, UK
Registration for Cambridge Muslim College’s first Science and Relig...
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2017-07-15
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Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
In the West, the historic consensus over the meaning and value of religious freedom seems to be breaking down. This problem has particular salience in America. We have always thought of religiou...
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2017-07-15
1687 Views
Date: August 18-20, 2017
Venue: Hyatt Regency DFW, 2334 North International Parkway, Dallas, TX, USA
The 13th Annual National Muslim Congress Conference will be held in Dallas, TX on Aug 18-20th 2017. In attendance will be a number of renowned...
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2017-07-15
1533 Views
Date: September 18-21, 2017
Venue: University of Leuven, Belgium
Communication plays a crucial role in religion and religious praxis. Religions claim to be able to create links with the divine and the transcendent, between humans and superhuman age...
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2017-07-13
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a controversial GOP proposal identifying “Islamic religious doctrines, concepts or schools of thought” that could be used by terrorist groups — something opponents say is unconsti...
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2017-07-13
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U.K. politicians should consider regulation to tackle the tide of negative media coverage about British Muslims. This was the message from a Liverpool conference this week which examined damaging and biased news stories about Britain's Muslim communi...
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2017-07-13
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The editors of two magazines targeting Britain’s 2.8m Muslims have spoken about why they felt the need to provide a different media perspective for the minority group. The Black Muslim Times UK is a website set up British Nigerian Halimat Shode...
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2017-07-13
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A bus-load of imams are on a six-day tour of European cities hit by attacks in recent years to denounce terrorism, including Brussels, Nice, Toulouse and London. After leaving Paris on Saturday, they arrived on Sunday in Berlin. They are due to ...
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2017-07-13
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Call for Papers
Date: December 18-19, 2017
Venue: The Spot-B01 (Copland Theatre), University of Melbourne (Parkville), Australia
Abstract Submission Deadline: August 11, 2017
Hosted by the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies ...
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2017-07-13
1731 Views
University of Copenhagen
Call for Application
Application Deadline: September 1, 2017
Subject to available grants, the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, hereby announces that a three-year PhD scholarship will be available from October...
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2017-07-12
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AAIMS is an inter-disciplinary network of scholars at Australian universities. AAIMS promotes teaching and research excellence on Islam and Muslim experiences as a minority or majority.
AAIMS is a leading academic Australian association for scholars...
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2017-07-12
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A Study in Ethics and Law
By Mairaj U. Syed
Publisher: Oxford University Press (November 17, 2016)
Series: Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurist...
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2017-07-11
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Course Description:
- Exploring how you can deepen your students’ understanding of Islam and Muslim societies.
- Establish a critical background on elementary concepts, practices, traditions of Islam.
- Acquire tools for navigating t...
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2017-07-11
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Call for Papers
Date: April 11-13, 2018
Venue: Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France
Languages of the Conference: English, French
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2017
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matth...
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2017-07-10
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Bay Area teachers gathered at Stanford for a five-week program this spring that provided educators strategies to teach Islam. The program, a collaboration involving three Stanford organizations, doesn’t shy away from Islam’s complicated nature.
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2017-07-09
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A study commissioned by an Austrian government minister critical of Vienna’s Muslim-run kindergartens has ignited a political fight between the minister’s party and rivals seizing on allegations that his staff rewrote parts of the study t...
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2017-07-09
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The new Modern Mediterranean Societies Seminar Series opened with Dr. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar (Anthropology, University of Nevada) presenting at the first BUJS Forum of the fall semester. She led an engaging discussion on her paper “Converting S...
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2017-07-08
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This year, the International School of Islamic Studies, which has already become traditional, was taking place in Odessa. It was dedicated to “Islam in the modern world: historical, cultural, intellectual space,” Religion in Ukraine has r...
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2017-07-07
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For over two decades, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) has served as the unifying force that brings together over 400,000 Muslim Americans in the greater Chicago region, and now increasingly all of Illinois. With o...
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2017-07-07
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Case Studies on Islam
Edited by Ines Weinrich
Publisher: Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) (2016)
Performing Religion investigates the relationship between texts, actors, and contexts in the study of Muslim devotion. Research in Islamic Studies to date...
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2017-07-06
1785 Views
Conference Report
June 26-27, 2017 | University of Manchester
This international conference organized by the College of Psychoanalysts – UK with the support of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix and CIDRAL University of Manchester promises to f...
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2017-07-06
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A Dutch court ruled on Tuesday that the government was partly liable for the deaths of about 350 Muslim men in 1995 in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the site of Europe’s worst mass murder since World War II.
The court largely upheld a l...
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2017-07-06
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A Dallas imam and his organization are taking on the world’s largest search engine to stop it from spreading hate. Suleiman is president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist Unive...
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2017-07-05
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The opening of a new mosque this month in Berlin further strained already-tense relations between Germany and Turkey, and has caused outrage in various corners of the Muslim world -- even prompting religious authorities in Egypt to issue a decree con...
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2017-07-05
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The U.K. has mistakenly subcontracted the management of its Muslim population to community brokers, Gilles Kepel tells Haaretz, rebutting rival scholar Olivier Roy. British law enforcement struggling to cope with a burgeoning wave of terrorism?...
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2017-07-04
1595 Views
New perspectives of Islamic History from the 16th century to the present
June 25-29, 2017 | Duke University
Workshop Report
The Duke Islamic Studies Center and Qatar Foundation International presented a summer institute for 6-12 educators.
A...
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2017-07-04
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Mosques in the UK should hire British-born imams on a living wage who are better equipped than foreign religious leaders to understand the challenges faced by British Muslims, a report has recommended.
The Missing Muslims: Unlocking British Muslim P...
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2017-07-04
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Responding earlier this year to the fatal shooting of six Muslims at a Quebec City mosque, the Canadian Council of Imams stated, “Islamophobia has killed innocent Canadians.” The media is not a unified body, but all of its parts are ...
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2017-07-01
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According to Pew Research Institute, a comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.6 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.
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