Dr. Omid Safi, Director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center, will examine the spiritual depths of Islam, the misguided association of Islam to terrorism, and the pitfalls of xenophobia. Omid Safi is the Director of...
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) invites you to attend our second annual conference to take place on March 24-25, 2017 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Through a series of papers, panel sessions,...
Religious and ethnic discrimination has a significant history in the West from the Inquisition which targeted Muslims and Jews in the Iberian Peninsula to the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US, among others. Islamophobia is...
Recent decades have seen increasing global connectedness and rapid changes in Islamic belief and practice in China, across a sphere characterized by great diversity in histories of transmission, socioeconomic factors, language and life-ways. What insights...
https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/islam-and-muslims-media In today's political climate, how are Islam and Muslims portrayed in the media? Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsor this in-depth conference featuring insights and commentary from top...
International Conference Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text Tübingen, 30 March to 1 April 2017 http://www.spatial-thought.uni-tuebingen.de/ Convenors Kurt Franz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) Zayde Antrim (Trinity College, Hartford,...
Investigating Middle Eastern televised fiction in shaping popular culture Prelude to conference includes showings of Middle Eastern productions Middle Eastern-produced television serials are a billion-dollar industry, and one that has stirred controversy among audiences in...
The Diyanet Islamic Research Institute at Diyanet Center of America (DCA), in cooperation with the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, presents a colloquium focusing on history, memory, and identity...
Islamophobia is most commonly understood to be a problem that impacts adversely on Muslim minorities living in Western countries. The growing literature on Islamophobia has contributed to this understanding by focusing on the role of...
The aim of the international conference Translators, copyists and interpreters: Jews, Christians and Muslims and the transmission of the Bible in Arabic in the Middle Ages is to foster an international and interdisciplinary cooperation on...
The ICAIS 2017: 19th International Conference on Arabic and Islamic Studies aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of...
Event website. This conference aims systematically to take stock of the state of the field in Qur'anic manuscript studies and assess its broader significance. The conference hopes to consider the new directions provided to the...
It has long been known that in the centuries leading up to the emergence of Islam, various religions, both monotheistic and otherwise, were practiced in the Arabian peninsula. The Muslim tradition itself, for example, describes...
Thursday 6:00-8:00 pm Opening Reception, Platt 99 8:00-8:30 pm Alexander Hotel Art Tour, Lobby Friday Studying and Teaching American Religion in the 21st Century 8:30-10:00 am Alexander Ballroom Nones Even casual observers of American religion...
The Middle Eastern Studies Association, in partnership with Ben Gurion University of the Negev, will hold a two-day conference on the theme of "Rethinking Islam at the Turn of the 21st Century: Liberal Trends, Agents...
İstanbul Bilgi University will be holding a conference on the theme of "Contextualizing History Writing in the Ottoman and Indian Worlds (C.1400-1850)" on June 10th-11th at its İstanbul campus. The conference is organized by İstanbul Bilgi...
Following the success of the last two previous Kurdish studies conferences in 2012 and 2015 at the University of Exeter Centre for Kurdish Studies, the next conference event will be held over 2.5 days: 26 –...
English event page. About the Conference Endangerment and destruction of monuments, archaeological sites and objects, whether antique, medieval or modern, in the present Islamicate World, notably in Syria and Iraq, have received a wide –...
About the Conference In recent decades, scholarship on the Middle East has benefited from a dynamic approach to the relationship between identities and boundaries. The post-structural turn encouraged us to think beyond bounded communities to...
The conference “Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era,” jointly organized by the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte and The Society for Reformation Research, will be held 18-21 July 2017 at the Eckstein Haus in Nuremberg,...
This international symposium will elaborate on how religions have viewed and interpreted their sacred texts throughout their histories with reference to women and gender relations. It will also reveal how experts in religious studies and social...
Speakers List Includes Dr. Ebrahim Moosa Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina Dr. Sheherazade Jafari Dr. Safi Kaskas Dr. Mike Ghouse Ms. Linda Ilham Barto Dr. Sam Hamod Mr. Sami Jamil Jadallah Program/Schedule 8:00-8:50 Light Breakfast- Registration Conference Opens...
Registration required. Part of EISA's 11th Annual Conference in Barcelona Section 24 - Islam in World Affairs: Politics and Paradigms The section addresses the role of Islam in world affairs. It seeks to explore the empirical...
About the Conference The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany and one of the most important scholarly Orientalist congresses in the world. The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and...
The development of awqaf projects has become an agenda to enhance the economy of ummah and to boost up the importance of the third sector of economy. The interest on the subject of waqf is...
Conference Website Conference Theme "Managing Hajj, Umrah and Ziarah : Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium" Conference Description The International Conference on Hajj, Umrah and Ziarah (ICHUZ'2017) with the theme "Managing Hajj, Umrah and Ziarah : Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium" is intended to gather academicians and industry...
About the Conference Carl Ernst has devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally. From his first book, Words of Ecstasy in Sufism (1985), to his most recent book, co-edited with Fabrizio Speziale, Perso-Indica: An Analytical...
Call for Papers: Abstracts due by 15 August 2017 About the Conference With liberal democracy becoming an increasingly important norm in contemporary world, masses constitute significant element in directing state policies. On one hand, the...
Section webpage here. Conference Website. Section Description This working group foregrounds theatre and performance in Islamic countries and cultures, and representations of Muslim bodies on stage. Orientalist ‘othering’ into an age of paranoid nationalism has...
Registration required. Conference Website. About the Conference The 2017 Annual Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, November 18–21, hosted by the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, is the world's largest gathering of scholars interested...
In Their Words / In Our Words: A conference about representations of the Other in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia Call for Papers: Abstracts due by July 24 We are proud to welcome...
About the Conference The Qur'an and Tafsir Academy have taken the academic studies on the agenda of the Qur'anic studies as an issue of the year, 2017. Masters and Doctoral theses in the field of...
In Turkey politics is often emotional and emotions are highly politicized. However, a closer look at public and political expressions of emotions shows that distinctive emotions show salience at different decades and under different political...
Call for Papers Please submit 300-400-word abstracts, including a short biographical statement and a 5-entry bibliography, to Terri Ginsberg and Iman Hamam by August 31, 2017. Acceptance notices will be circulated by October 1, 2017. Participants must submit their completed...
Conference on The Global Status of Women and Girls at Christopher Newport University Call for Papers: Abstract Deadline is September 3, 2017 Submissions from any academic discipline are welcome, including, but not limited to, art,...
Research Hall, Room 163 In the two years since its publication, the late Shahab Ahmed’s inquiry into What is Islam? has generated much needed debate across multiple fields related to the study of Islam. His erudite proposal...
Johnson Center, George's (3rd Floor above JC Library) In the last two decades, a renewed interest in African Muslims’ forced and voluntary journeys into American continent produced a number of noteworthy publications. Combined with an...
Call for Proposals We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from the sixth century c.e. to the present day, including but not limited...
Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference: China and West Asia: Economic Development; and Social and Political Cooperation Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University Cappadocia - TURKEY June 20-22, 2018 Organized by Nevsehir...
The Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation welcomes the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018, serving as a meeting point to present, debate...
Proposals should be sent to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu and must be received by July 30, 2018 About the Conference The SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium invites papers exploring the theme of “Sharia and the Secular.” Does Sharia rule Muslims’...
About the Conference Conceptualizing Sectarianization: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Ethno-Religious Difference in Studying the Middle East and North Africa Demarcating a given community on the basis of its confessional identity or religious denomination has...
CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline is 03 April 2018) The rise of female Islamic scholarship and leadership in the non-Muslim world is a relatively recent phenomenon that is garnering increasing public attention. Growing opportunities for women...
CALL FOR PAPERS 47th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS) “Impact of Emerging Digital Technology and Social Media on Muslim Communities” Cosponsored By:Middle East and Middle Eastern American...
About the Conference As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference shall invite participants to examine the reach...
