Entries for August 2018
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2018-08-31
1131 Views
A new way to categorize Americans by religion
Most U.S. adults identify with a particular religious denomination or group. They describe themselves as Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Jewish, Mormon or Muslim– to name just a few of the hundreds o...
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2018-08-25
1131 Views
Date: September 22, 2018
Venue: Newham Collegiate sixth form center, London, UK
Application Deadline: September 7, 2018
The Oxford Muslim Access Conference is being launched to address the multiple barriers affecting Muslim students applying to Ox...
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2018-08-24
1248 Views
The Woolf Institute was founded by Dr Edward Kessler and Revd Professor Martin Forward in 1998. Their aim was to provide an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.
The Woolf Institute ...
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2018-08-24
1182 Views
Interrogating analytical turns for/in the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe
Date: November 29-30, 2018
Venue: Woolf Institute, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0UB, UK
Organizers: Zubair Ahmad, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies,...
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2018-08-23
1447 Views
“Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice”
Call for Applications
Date: November 11-17, 2018
Venue: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Application Deadline: September 5, 2018
The USPPIP project (Understanding Shari&rsquo...
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2018-08-22
1231 Views
Generously funded by the KC Shasha Charitable Foundation, this project focuses on the cultural and social implications of musical encounters between Jewish, Muslim, and Christian neighbors in historical Iraq and Syria. It examines how the role of mus...
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2018-08-22
1228 Views
Building an Islamic Case for Open Markets
Date: November 14-15, 2018
Venue: Iqbal International Institute of Research and Dialogue, Islamabad, Pakistan
Islam & Liberty Network (ILN) is a global platform of researchers and academics building kn...
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2018-08-21
1131 Views
Call for Applications
Hamilton College, New York, USA
Application Deadline: October 5, 2018
The Asian Studies program of Hamilton College invites applications for a tenure track position in any discipline on Islam in Asia, including Iran/Persia, S...
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2018-08-20
1415 Views
Author: Seyfeddin Kara (Hartford Seminary)
Publisher: Gerlach Press (July 30, 2018)
The history of the text of the Qur’an has been a longstanding subject of interest within the field of Islamic Studies, but the debate has so far been focused ...
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2018-08-19
1287 Views
Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) organized a total gathering of different NGO’s of the Islamic Republic of Iran in a 1 day seminar on the occasion of Social Cooperation Day on August 13, 2018 in Tehran.
In this seminar ...
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2018-08-19
1157 Views
United Nations Association of Iran (UNA-Iran) in cooperation with the UN Information Center and the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) organized an especial course on the UN System and its Activities in Iran on August 13, 2018.
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2018-08-19
1692 Views
The Movement of Population, Objects, and Ideas in the Pre-modern and Modern Muslim World
Call for Papers
Date: February 12–13, 2019
Venue: National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Republic of China
Abstract Submission Deadline: October ...
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2018-08-16
1925 Views
A Muslim woman will get 40,000 Swedish krona ($4,366) in damages from a company that discriminated against her faith-based choices during a job interview, a Swedish court ruled.
Farah Alhajeh’s job interview in Uppsala, eastern Sweden was canc...
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2018-08-11
1448 Views
Mapping Islamophobia is a project headed by Grinnell College history and religious studies professor Caleb Elfenbein, with contributions from a number of Grinnell College students and technical support from Mike Conner. The project utilizes a series of powerful interactive maps that document incidents of violence, discrimination, and bias targeting Muslim individuals and communities in the United States.
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2018-08-10
1259 Views
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Department of Sociology
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: 30 September 2018
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) invites applications for a two-year Po...
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2018-08-09
1117 Views
Date: December 6-7, 2018
Venue: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
The conference is part of a larger endeavor aimed at fostering the scholarly exploration of all aspects of Shiism: the "Shii Studies Research Program", www.ias.edu...
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2018-08-07
1335 Views
New laws targeting Muslims are reminiscent of a time when innocent Jewish children were abducted by masked monks and imprisoned in monasteries to “save” them from the eternal fire of hell. In our blind mistrust of religious differences, w...
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2018-08-06
1265 Views
Tübingen University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asian and Oriental Studies
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: August 31, 2018
The applicant should be able to cover a broad spectrum of research and instruction in this subjec...
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2018-08-04
1250 Views
The annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)
Date: October 26–28, 2018
Venue: Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
The annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion provides scholars ...
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2018-08-03
1392 Views
6th Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies
Date: September 28-29, 2018
Venue: Basel, Switzerland
Call for Applications for the 6th Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies in Basel, a workshop with...
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2018-08-02
1215 Views
Amatul-Wadud is a mother of seven, a lawyer, a community activist and a Muslim, who rises before dawn, prays five times a day and fasts during Ramadan. Now aged 44, she faces the biggest hurdle of her life: asking a majority white constituency, where...
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