Entries for August 2016
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2016-08-31
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Professional Course on the Cultural Interaction between Islam and Western Societies
Professional Course on
The Cultural Interaction between Islam and Western Societies
Registration Deadline: September...
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2016-08-31
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In the short film Hijabi World, Rutgers University students—specifically, Muslim women who observe hijab—talk about the day-to-day challenges of wearing a headscarf. “Sometimes you itch in your own skin,” says one woman n...
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2016-08-30
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Governments have imposed their own rules against religion throughout history.
Religion around the world is on the decline. For the first time ever, Norway now has more people who do not believe in God than do - with 39 per cent of a...
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2016-08-29
1983 Views
A study of contemporary theological and political issues and controversies.
A single-weekend seminar
Lecturer: Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Date: September 23, 2016
Venue: Seattle, WA, US
Western Muslims live in a 'liberal', 'secular', 'humanist...
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2016-08-29
2064 Views
Hoping to boost recruiting of Muslim women, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is allowing its officers to wear hijabs as part of their uniforms, the government said Tuesday. "The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently approved thi...
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2016-08-28
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Date: September 17, 2016 @ 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Rd, London E1, UK
Cost: £55.00 (On/Before 11th Sept.) £65.00 (On/After 12th Sept.) £49.00 (Online access)
The term 'ethical lead...
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2016-08-28
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A campaign to block construction of a new mosque near the Leaning Tower of Pisa imperils Italy’s commitment to religious freedom, warn those who defend Muslims’ right to build it. The proposed mosque, a few hundred yards fr...
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2016-08-27
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Al-Mahdi Institute is now enrolling for Islamic Studies and Arabic available for full-time and part-time study, starting on 19th September 2016. Students can choose to study in-house at the institute, virtually online or virtually offline at any time...
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2016-08-27
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At an emotional funeral service for a New York City imam and his assistant who were gunned down on a Queens street, one friend of the victims took the microphone and demanded that the city install security cameras outside mosques citywide to help pro...
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2016-08-27
1843 Views
A proposal to build a mosque and Muslim cemetery has so angered some residents of Newton County outside Atlanta that their commissioners have temporarily banned all building permit approvals for religious institutions. The moratorium prompted the Cou...
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2016-08-25
1857 Views
Brandeis University - 2016-17
Brandeis University is a private research university, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in USA- Boston, Ma.
Objectives
The Islami...
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2016-08-24
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Muslim Congress is pleased to announce commencement of the Prehawza Fall 2016 online classes. Classes will begin on Friday, September 2, 2016 insha-Allah. All classes are in English and are held weekly on the same day ...
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2016-08-23
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Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against “radical Islamic terror,” repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls — including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrant...
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2016-08-23
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The final parish meeting of the Holy Trinity Church, in the center of Bath, took place on a rainy day in February 2011. Anglo-Catholic congregations had worshipped here, under the hammer-beam roof and monuments to heroes of Napoleonic wars, for nigh ...
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2016-08-22
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Call for Abstracts
Religion in Contexts
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2016
It is the aim of the volume to collect contributions that contextualize religions in their worldwide multiplicity, their particular societal configurations ...
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2016-08-22
1871 Views
Islamic Education in Europe
Faith of Our Fathers
For a snapshot of how Europeans, Muslim and non-Muslim, learn about Islam, visit the Centrum mosque near Hamburg railway station. A converted public bath, it is one of about 60 prayer spaces serving ...
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2016-08-21
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Date: Sundays's 10:30 am - 1:30 pm (Starting September 2016)
Venue: Norbury Hall, Barnsley Road, Sheffield, S4 7AD, UK
Essential Islamic Syll...
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2016-08-21
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practiced in a way that respected the constitution. More than a million people fleeing war and pover...
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2016-08-20
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Dr. Iqbal Al-Nadvi (Mohammad Iqbal Masood Al-Nadvi) is the Chairperson of Canadian Council of Imams and also serves as the Amir (President) of Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Canada.
His previous positions include the following: Dir...
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2016-08-20
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Welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the world, Muslim dawah teams took to the Brazilian streets in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to spread the true message of Islam. Jamila da Lima is one of those volunteers who found Islam a few y...
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2016-08-20
1956 Views
45th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS)
Date: October 8, 2016
Venue: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, US
Organizer: North American Association of Islamic and ...
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2016-08-19
1878 Views
Date: September 3, 2016
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Venue: SOAS University of London, WC1H 0XG, UK
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2016-08-19
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Figures released in July by Destatis, the government's statistics agency, showed that more than 2.1 million people migrated to Germany in 2015.
More than 33,000 migrants who are supposed to be deported are still in Germany and are being cared for by...
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2016-08-19
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The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion will be held in Tehran, Iran, Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran at January 24-25, 2017.
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2016-08-19
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Two German associations of judges have called for a headscarf ban on judges and lawyers, arguing that the measure is required to ensure neutrality in court.
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2016-08-18
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Vision: Nurturing Piety
Mission: Enabling a learning environment that instills the values of Qur’an and the Ahlul Bayt a.s.
Following the successful Madrasah Retreat held in Dubai in February 2011, in which over 25 madras (sch...
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2016-08-18
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Award-winning director and producer Steph Atkinson brings us this one-off documentary, which investigates the terrifying scale of the rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in the US.
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2016-08-17
2029 Views
CoEJ Leadership Development Program 2016
Date: 17-18 September and 1-2 October 2016
Venue: Harben House, Tickford St, Newport Pagnell MK16 9EY, UK
Application Form Submission Deadline: September 2, 2016
The Council of E...
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2016-08-17
1999 Views
Parliamentary report says Muslim women face more discrimination and unemployment than any other cultural or ethnic group.
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2016-08-16
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A Historical Understanding of a New Community
Date: September 17, 2016 @ 9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Venue: Cambridge Muslim College, 14 St Paul's Rd, Cambridge CB1 2EZ, UK
Organizer: Cambridge Muslim College
Cambridge Muslim College is pleased ...
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2016-08-16
1963 Views
A leading French Muslim organization is to create a foundation to finance the country’s mosques, possibly through levies on halal food, in a bid to curb religious funding by radical Islamists.
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2016-08-16
1942 Views
Will Smith was in the Middle East on Sunday promoting the movie "Suicide Squad", but the Hollywood star said his time in Dubai is also a chance to counter an increasingly anti-Muslim climate surrounding the U.S. presidential race.
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2016-08-15
1850 Views
No hijab-wearing players are present on the basketball courts at the Rio Olympics, for instance ― and it’s not for lack of qualified players. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has long prohibited athletes from wearing “equipment that may cause injury to other players.” For some reason, FIBA deems hijabs to fall into that category, but a growing body of athletes and advocacy organizations are working to change that.
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2016-08-13
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Virtual Special Issue: Sociology
A brand new Virtual Special Issue from Journal of Contemporary Religion featuring key research on sociology and religion is introduced. By exploring the crossroads between the two subject areas, this new Virtual Sp...
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2016-08-13
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Call for Papers
Date: 5, 6 & 7 December 2016
Venue: the Old Library of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: 14 November 2016
The Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies is a forum for...
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2016-08-12
2135 Views
SABA Islamic Center
Background
In 1977 a couple of families (Br. Ahmed Mirza and Br. Ali Hussain) took the initiative of locating the whereabouts of the Shia families and organizing a Moharram Majalis at their residences in San Jose.
In 1979 after...
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2016-08-11
2288 Views
Rethinking Islamic Education in Europe:
Research, Professional Practice and Policy Development
Date: 5th-7th September 2016
Venue: Scarman House, University of Warwick
In association with Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit Ce...
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2016-08-11
1757 Views
The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the US should debate deporting all Muslims from the country.
"I'm suggesting we have a discussion about it. That's for sure," Paul Nehlen said on 560 AM's "Morning Answer" i...
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2016-08-11
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Muslims in the Greek capital have had to worship in makeshift facilities since the end of Ottoman rule. There hasn’t been a mosque in the Greek capital in 150 years. That’s about to change.
On Thursday, the Greek parliament approve...
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2016-08-10
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Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was wrong to identify Islam with violence and that social injustice and idolatry of money were among the prime causes of terrorism. "I think it is not right to identity Islam with violence," he told reporters aboar...
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2016-08-09
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Muslims in France and Italy flocked to Mass on Sunday, a gesture of interfaith solidarity following a drumbeat of jihadi attacks that threatens to deepen religious divisions across Europe.
From the towering Gothic cathedral in Rouen, only a few mile...
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2016-08-08
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In an election year filled with anti-Muslim vitriol, some mosques are urging their worshipers to vote in an attempt to make their voices heard. To do so, they're borrowing a strategy used by African-American churches and organizing "souls to the poll...
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2016-08-06
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The California State Assembly voted to pass a resolution that officially recognizes August 2016 as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month. The resolution comes at a time of increased anti-Muslim rhetoric, according to a recent civil rights repo...
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2016-08-04
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The Era of Presence in the Abrahamic Religions
Call for Papers
Date: May 10-11, 2017
Venue: Bright Future Institute (BFI), No. 27, Alley 25, Safaeiyeh Street, Qom, Iran
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 20, 2016
The era of Advent, the...
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2016-08-04
1880 Views
MA in Islamic Studies
Department of Religion, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University
Registration Deadline: October 1, 2016 (Spring 2017) / April 1, 2017 (Fall 2017)
Bridging the Modern with th...
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2016-08-03
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Denmark should halt immigration from Muslim countries to stem the threat of violence from extremists, the nation's second-largest party argued Thursday.
Soer...
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2016-08-02
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Twelve Infallible Men focuses on the role of narratives of the imams in the development of a distinct Shi’a identity. During the tenth century, at a critical juncture in Islamic history, a group of scholars began assembling definitive works containing accounts of the twelve imams’ lives. These collective biographies constructed a sacred history, portraying the imams as strong, beautiful, learned, and pious. Miracles surrounded their birth, and they became miracle workers in turn, but were nevertheless betrayed and martyred by enemies.
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2016-08-02
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Date: July 19–September 26 (weekdays only)
Venue: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, US
Since 1892, more than sixty exhibitions related to Islamic art have...
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2016-08-01
1966 Views
The University of Bergen (UiB)
The University of Bergen (UiB) is an internationally recognized research university. Academic diversity and high quality are fundamental for us. UiB is the most cited university in Norway.
The Centre for Mid...
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2016-08-01
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When an 18-year old German Iranian killed nine people and then shot himself on Friday in Munich, speculation that it was an Islamist attack circulated for hours. But doubts arose when a video was uploaded in which t...
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