Entries for September 2018
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2018-09-27
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In the wake of growing racism across Europe, a project to counter Islamophobia was launched in the European Parliament on Wednesday. Experts and academics from across Europe gathered at the parliament for the launch of the two-year Counter-Islamophob...
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2018-09-26
1272 Views
Date: October 15-18, 2018
Venue: University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
From Monday 15 until Thursday 18 October 2018, the eighth annual NISIS Autumn School will take place at the University of Groningen. This year’s Autumn...
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2018-09-26
1423 Views
The famous Norwegian historian Kari Vogt, from Oslo University’s Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, has estimated that as much as 3,000 Norwegians converted to Islam in the recent few years, Verdens Gang reported.
“The...
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2018-09-26
1293 Views
Religious liberty has become a particularly politicized topic in recent years, and recent months were no different. In a long-awaited June decision, the Supreme Court decided in favor of a Christian baker who refused to make a custom wedding cake for...
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2018-09-25
1250 Views
Duration: 2 years (Oct 2018 - Sept 2020)
Registration Deadline: November 15, 2018
Cambridge Islamic College is offering a two-year foundational/intermediate level course in Arabic and Islamic studies. It is designed to qualify participants for admi...
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2018-09-24
1221 Views
Call for Papers
Date: April 15 – 16, 2019
Venue: University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2018
Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and ...
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2018-09-24
1118 Views
According to a 2011 report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), there are 235 full-time Islamic schools in the United States.
Shariq Siddiqui and Sabith Khan, co-authors of “Islamic Education in the United States and th...
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2018-09-23
1336 Views
The Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) was founded to explore the fundamental role played by religious traditions in defining roles for women and men. Research on religion and gender sheds light on questions about the changing roles of women ...
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2018-09-22
1308 Views
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: October 15, 2018
Each year Harvard Divinity School selects five candidates for full-time Research Associate and Visiting Faculty positions in its Women's Studi...
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2018-09-21
1181 Views
Date: September 17-21, 2018
Venue: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK
The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with Cambridge University Library, the University of Cambridge's HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic ...
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2018-09-21
1218 Views
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, GA invite applications for ...
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2018-09-21
1199 Views
Many Muslims still remember the killing of a pregnant Muslim woman in a German court based on anti-Muslim motivation. On July 1, 2009, Marwa was stabbed to death by the attacker, who openly revealed his anti-Muslim bias.
Five years later on July 1, ...
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2018-09-19
1474 Views
The Silk Road Institute, a non-profit Muslim organization dedicated to promoting cultural arts, is launching Canada’s first professional Muslim theater company this fall in Montreal, Broadway World reported on September 19.
The company’s...
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2018-09-16
1340 Views
A Danish law that took effect in August makes it illegal for Muslim women to wear face-covering veils – such as burqas or niqabs – in public. Austria, Belgium and France, as well as parts of Italy and Spain, have enacted similar laws in r...
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2018-09-11
1207 Views
Local Catholic and Muslim leaders in Edmonton, Canada, have organized a ‘Meet Greet’ event to create mutual understanding between the two religious communities for a “deeper way of tolerance and coexistence”.
“The most ...
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2018-09-06
1145 Views
University of Exeter
Call for Applications
Application Deadline: September 30, 2018
The above two full-time posts are available on a fixed term basis from 1st April 2019 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of 2 years in the Institute ...
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2018-09-05
1117 Views
Call for Advisory Board Members
Application Deadline: September 28, 2018
We are currently accepting applications for membership to the Advisory Board. The principle role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of its re...
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2018-09-05
1291 Views
Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity
By Mohammed Hashas
Publisher: Routledge (July 24, 2018)
Series: Routledge Islamic Studies Series
Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, a...
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2018-09-04
1409 Views
Call for Papers
Date: July 10-11, 2019
Venue: Maynooth University, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2019
More than 400 million people embark annually on pilgrimages with numbers steadily increasing. Pil...
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2018-09-04
1173 Views
By Philip Lewis, Sadek Hamid
Foreword by: Baroness Warsi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (June 26, 2018)
A new generation of Muslims – activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals – are drawing on contemporary refor...
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2018-09-03
1008 Views
A Special Issue of Religions
Call for Papers
Guest Editor: Dr. Adis Duderija
Publisher: MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Manuscript Submission Deadline: January 31, 2020
Salafism both as a concept and lived reality con...
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2018-09-02
1110 Views
BRAIS – De Gruyter International Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World
Application Deadline: October 1, 2018
The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the fourth round of the BRAIS...
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2018-09-01
1133 Views
The Reach of Empire - The Early Islamic Empire at Work
Date: October 11-13, 2018
Venue: Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center&rdquo...
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