In recent years, the percentage of U.S. adults who say they regularly attend religious services has been declining, while the share of Americans who attend only a few times a year, seldom or...
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Second Conference on the Glorious Qur’an and Art will be held on March 2019, in Qom, Iran...
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This book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the two home states with the largest diaspora populations in Europe: Turkey and Morocco...
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Anam Kazim, member of the legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada during an official session represented the ceremony of Arbaeen to the Canadian Assembly and talked about the Great Arbaeen walk in Iraq...
Read More »Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Classical Islamic Religious Thought and Dialogue
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. and a track record in, and current plan for, excellent research in the periods from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in areas such as the role of translations and interfaith exchanges. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. and a track record …
Read More »One Day Colloquium: Rationality and the Mystical Tradition: Shia Muslim – Roman Catholic Perspectives
On November 16, 2018 the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), in Rome will be hosting a colloquium on the subject Rationality and the Mystical Tradition: Shia Muslim – Roman Catholic...
Read More »Social Affairs: Brotherhood, Marriage, Community
This book, Social Affairs: Brotherhood, Marriage, Community, is a compilation of inspirational lessons in regards to living as part of community. It lays a framework for Islamic teachings on...
Read More »Australian Muslim Groups Slam PM Islamophobic Speech
Several Australian Muslim groups have slammed Prime Minister Scott Morrison over his speech on the knife attack that took place on 9 November on Bourke Street in...
Read More »A Minority within a Minority: the Complexity and Multilocality of Transnational Twelver Shia Networks in Britain
This article investigates the dynamics around the creation of transnational Shia communal spaces in north-west London, the public representation of Shia Muslim identities by networks and organizations based there to illustrate their multilocal connectivities and internal heterogeneity. Academic scholarship on Shia Muslim minorities in the West has described them as …
Read More »Call for Papers: “Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia”
This Special Issue of the journal Religions "Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia" (guest editor: Dr. Chiara Formichi, Cornell University) is open for submission...
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