Entries for July 2019
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2019-07-22
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Macalester was founded in 1874 on a firm belief in the transformational power of the liberal arts education. Since then, our students and alumni have demonstrated that power as a force for positive change, in turn attracting a growing community of le...
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2019-07-20
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Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship’s Twentieth Anniversary Conference
Call for papers
Date: November 8-10, 2019
Venue: University of Bristol, Senate House, Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: August...
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2019-07-20
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The Treatise-Literature (rasāʾil) as Documentation of Socially Relevant Discussions in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies (13th - 19th Centuries)
Date: March 25-27, 2020
Venue: Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany
In the last ...
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2019-07-19
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15th International Conference on Urban History (EAUH 2020)
Call for Papers
Date: September 2-5, 2020
Venue: University of Antwerp, Belgium
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 4, 2019
Spokesperson: Henk de Smaele, University of Antwerp
Co-orga...
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2019-07-19
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Date: December 5-6, 2019
Venue: University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Co-hosted by: the AASR, the Centre for the Study of Violence and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The relationship between religion and violence cont...
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2019-07-18
775 Views
The 1,200-year-old building is one of the oldest mosques ever discovered in Israel. The researchers also uncovered a farm and a small settlement near the mosque in the Negev Desert.
Archaeologists announced on Thursday that they had discovered a 1,2...
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2019-07-18
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Algebra, alchemy, artichoke, alcohol, and apricot all derive from Arabic words which came to the West during the age of Crusades. Even more fundamental are the Indo-Arabic numerals (0-9), which replaced Roman numerals during the same period and revol...
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2019-07-17
903 Views
An art tradition sometimes dismissed as perpetuating lazy stereotypes about the east will soon – the British Museum hopes – be seen in a different light thanks to a major exhibition exploring how western artists have been inspired by the ...
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2019-07-17
750 Views
Restrictions on religion are on the rise, not just under authoritarian regimes but also in European democracies, according to the US Pew center. It found Christians are harassed in 143 countries, and Muslims in 140.
Over the decade from 2007 to 2017...
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2019-07-16
932 Views
Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) issued a written statement to “High-Level Political Forum 2019 under the Auspices of ECOSOC” (Tuesday, 9 July, to Thursday, 18 July 2019 – New York) by the request of ECOSOC and it was ...
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2019-07-15
840 Views
Date: August 21-25, 2019
Venue: Qom, Iran
Shi’a Islam, with its rich and extensive history, has played a crucial role in the evolution of Islam as both a major faith and a civilization. Shi’a Muslims account for approximately 15 percent...
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2019-07-14
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Call for Applications
IEG Fellowships beginning: March 2020 or later
Location: Germany
Application Deadline: August 15, 2019
Fields: European history, the history of religion, historical theology, or other historical disciplines
The Leibniz Inst...
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2019-07-14
756 Views
The German domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz – which roughly translates as Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – has published a new report titled “Anti-Semitism in Islamism&rdq...
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2019-07-13
872 Views
15th International Conference on Urban History (EAUH 2020)
Call for Papers
Date: September 2-5, 2020
Venue: University of Antwerp, Belgium
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 4, 2019
Spokesperson: Sarah Thieme, University of Münster
Co...
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2019-07-13
836 Views
Date: July 23-24, 2019
Venue: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Plenary Speaker: Prof. Dr. Axel R. Schäfer, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
The study of religion in American life has come a long way since 1994 when Jon Butler w...
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2019-07-12
757 Views
By Cambridge Muslim College
Instructor: Dr. Samir Mahmoud
An introduction to the various aspects and mysteries of the ritual prayer (salat) and how they relate to contemporary life.
Structured as a series of eight sessions, the course looks at ke...
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2019-07-12
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Call for Papers
Date: November 8-10, 2019
Venue: Münster, Germany
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 31, 2019
Organizer: Center for Islamic Theology (Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide and Catharina Rachik) and the Cluster of Excellence “Rel...
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2019-07-11
849 Views
Director: Professor Sajjad Rizvi
The Centre for the Study of Islam, based in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, brings together the core teaching staff in Islamic Studies, other staff who have an interest in Islamic culture and civilization,...
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2019-07-11
841 Views
The Dalai Lama has claimed Europe could become ‘African or Muslim’ if refugees do not return to their home countries. The 83-year-old, who has been living as a refugee from Tibet since 1959, said he thinks only a ‘limited number&rsq...
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2019-07-10
727 Views
The Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan has met with members of the Muslim Community in the ACT about their experiences of discrimination, Islamophobia and hate speech and their right to safely practice their religion.
The gathering at the Can...
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2019-07-09
990 Views
Call for Applications
NISIS Autumn School 2019
Date: October 28 – 31, 2019
Venue: Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Application Deadline: September 2, 2019
Study programs in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies have been slow to take ...
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2019-07-07
841 Views
Call for Papers
Journal of Modern Islamic Studies
Editor in Chief: Dr Mykhaylo Yakubovych
Publisher: Center for Islamic Studies, The National University of Ostroh Academy
Deadline for the First Issue: 15 Nov 2019
The newly established peer-...
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2019-07-06
802 Views
Call for Applications
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Application Deadline: October 1, 2019
The Macalester College Religious Studies Department invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (tenure-track) to beg...
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2019-07-05
888 Views
Date: August 20-30, 2019
Venue: Leiden University Library, Witte Singel 26-27, 2311 BG Leiden, Netherlands
This summer school is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who have an interest in handwritten materials, editing, and the trad...
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2019-07-04
862 Views
CIWAS Third Annual Conference
Call for Papers
Date: February 19, 2020
Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 4, 2019
The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS) is seeking p...
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2019-07-03
778 Views
26th International DAVO Congress and 2nd Session of the Section for Islamic Studies of the DMG
Date: October 3-5, 2019
Venue: The Asian-Africa-Institute of Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
Organizers: The Department for Culture and History of ...
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2019-07-02
873 Views
An Islamophobic group in Norway insulted Muslims, said all Qurans must be destroyed and threw a copy of the Muslim holy book the Qur’an in an event near the capital Oslo on Saturday, according to a video the group posted on the Internet.
Durin...
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2019-07-01
734 Views
Four in 10 Tory members think there should be a reduction in the number of Muslims entering Britain, according to the YouGov survey.
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