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🔵 Third Inekas Summer School | 2023 🔵 "Muhammad: Life, Society, and Legacy" 👥 In collaboration with the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (UK), and Hanif Center for Religious Studies (Iran) ➕ 24 presentations, 17 in English and 7 in Persian, in 7 days ➕ August 24th, 25th, 31st, and September 1st, 6th, 7th, and 8th From 11:30 to 18:00 BST (6:30 to 13:00 EDT) 📄 A glimpse into recent scholarship on: ➡️ Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Arabian Peninsula and Medina ➡️ Muhammad's Biography and Sira ➡️ Muhammad's Family ➡️ Muhammad's Cultural Legacy in the Muslim Societies ➡️ Muhammad in Non-Muslim Sources 🗓 Deadline for Early-Bird Registration: August 8th 🗓 Deadline for Registration: August 21st 🌐 for more information and registration, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/690128281267 (For Registration from Iran, see here. or contact: @Inekas_admin ) @IRIC_org

❇️ همایش «بازنمایی تصویر امام مهدی(عج) در آثار آکادمیک جهان غرب: گزارش آثار، محورهای موضوعی و رویکردها» 🔹با همکاری مشترک مؤسسه اطلاعات و تحقیقات اسلامی(IRIC) و دانشگاه ادیان و مذاهب 🗓زمان: چهارشنبه 10 اسفند 1401- ساعت 14:30 الی 18 📍مکان: قم، پردیسان، دانشگاه ادیان و مذاهب، سالن امام موسی صدر 🔸برنامه به صورت حضوری است همراه با پخش بر خط از طریق نشانی https://b2n.ir/m80306 با کد دستوری: 22

❇️ Boston Islamic Seminary Cultivating the Next Generation of American Islamic Leadership ▶️ The Boston Islamic Seminary (BIS) is an academic institution that aims to train religious leaders who will serve the American Muslim community and to enhance the understanding of Islam in the contemporary context among people of all backgrounds. #AcademicCenters #BostonIslamicSeminary #IslamicSeminary #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

📚 The 12 Shiah Imams: Infallible or Imaginary? A Master of Arts Thesis by Melanie Ghassan Mohsen The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University May 15, 2022 Directed by Mohammad H. Faghfoory (Professor of Islamic Studies) #RecentPublications #Thesis #IslamicStudies #ShiaStudies #InfallibleImams #Imams #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

❇️ Muslim Community in Dearborn Faces Growing Mental Health Crisis ▶️ Dearborn, home to a large Muslim and Arab community, responded to more than 1,000 mental health-related emergencies in 2022. In Dearborn, home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the US and also known as the capital of Arab America, mental health issues are exacerbated because of the stigma that often surrounds mental illness in Muslim communities. #HopesandChallenges #Islamophobia #Dearborn #Michigan #IslaminUSA #mentalhealth #islamicmonitor @IRIC_org

📚 Anglophone Islam: A New Conceptual Category By Abdul-Azim Ahmed Contemporary Islam: volume 16, pages135–154 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-022-00492-8 #RecentPublications #Article #IslamicStudies #Sociology #AnglophoneIslam #AbdulAzimAhmed #ContemporaryIslam #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

📚Human Rights in Islamic Societies by Ahmed E. Souaiaia Publisher: ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (January 9, 2023) #RecentPublications #HumanRights #IslamicSocieties #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

📚Reporting Islam: Muslim Women in the New York Times, 1979-2011 By Suad Joseph Publisher: ‎ I.B. Tauris (January 26, 2023) #RecentPublications #MuslimWomen #NewYorkTimes #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

❇️ Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations Program ▶️Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations program, housed within the School of Divinity at The University of Edinburgh draws on the strengths of one of the most distinguished centers of religious and theological studies in the UK. It offers a deep and broad study of the rich intellectual traditions of Islamic law, theology and philosophy in conversation with Christian thought, ethics and political theology. #AcademicCenters #ChristianMuslim #Interfaith #UniversityofEdinburgh #IslamandChristianRelations #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

❇️ Encouraging Diversity, Muslim Cycling Group Features in BBC Documentary ▶️ A Liverpool cycling group aimed at promoting cycling among Muslim mothers, asylum seekers, and people from across the wider community is the subject of a new BBC documentary set to be aired. #MediaFraming #documentary #women #cycling #BBC #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

❇️ Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations Research Seminar Date: Spring 2023 Venue: University of Edinburgh, School of Divinity, New College, Mound Pl, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, UK and Online #Events #Christian_MuslimRelations #UniversityofEdinburgh #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

❇️ US Study Criticizes Marginalizing Muslims in Media and Cinema ▶️ The ‘Los Angeles Times’ published a detailed article on Muslims in the United States of America, in which it indicated that Muslim immigrants suffer from abuse in the media, in addition to their suffering from marginalization in the media and cinema. #MediaFraming #MuslimsinMedia #IslaminMedia #MuslimsinCinema #Media #Cinema #IslamicMonitor @IRIC_org

⚫️ In Memory of Haj Mohammad Taqi Ansari انّا للّه وانّا الیه راجعون “We belong to Allah, and to Him shall we return” [Holy Quran] On the very sad and heartbreaking news of the passing away of Haj Mohammad Taqi Ansarian, on behalf of the Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC), we would like to express our condolences to members of his family, friends and active members of the Islamic schools, Muslim communities, and all those who are concerned about promotion and distribution of the teachings of Ahlul-bait (a.s.) around the world. Brother Ansarian, the founder of Ansarian Publications, the major publishing house in Qom Iran, has translated and published many books in different languages, to say the least, that were quite influential for those who grew up reading as kids and youth and well into adulthood and until now especially in the West. The Education Department of IRIC, since its start of Islamic Classes in the Islamic Education Center in the U.S. has had close cooperation with Mr. Ansarian and benefitted from his efforts and various Islamic activities. May Brother Ansarian’s soul rest in peace and receive graces and bounties of Allah under the guardianship of the Imam of our Era, Imam Mahdi (May Allah hasten his return). Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) 20 August 2022 @IRIC_org

⚫️ In Memory of Haj Mohammad Taqi Ansari انّا للّه وانّا الیه راجعون “We belong to Allah, and to Him shall we return” [Holy Quran] On the very sad and heartbreaking news of the passing away of Haj Mohammad Taqi Ansarian, on behalf of the Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC), we would like to express our condolences to members of his family, friends and active members of the Islamic schools, Muslim communities, and all those who are concerned about promotion and distribution of the teachings of Ahlul-bait (a.s.) around the world. Brother Ansarian, the founder of Ansarian Publications, the major publishing house in Qom Iran, has translated and published many books in different languages, to say the least, that were quite influential for those who grew up reading as kids and youth and well into adulthood and until now especially in the West. The Education Department of IRIC, since its start of Islamic Classes in the Islamic Education Center in the U.S. has had close cooperation with Mr. Ansarian and benefitted from his efforts and various Islamic activities. May Brother Ansarian’s soul rest in peace and receive graces and bounties of Allah under the guardianship of the Imam of our Era, Imam Mahdi (May Allah hasten his return). Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) 20 August 2022 @IRIC_org

❇️ زنان مسلمان آمریکایی مسجدی اختصاصی برای زنان در لس آنجلس ایجاد کرده اند مسجد زنان آمریکا در سال 2015 توسط دو زن مسلمان آمریکایی اهل آسیای جنوبی – یک نویسنده طنز به نام م. حَسنا مزنوی و یک وکیل به نام ثنا مُطَلِب، تأسیس شد. هدفی که توسط بنیانگذاران این مسجد بیان شده، ایجاد فضایی برای توانمندسازی زنان مسلمان برای ایفای نقش های فعال در مسجد و تغییر فرهنگ سنتی مساجد که به باور ایشان اغلب از زنان برای پذیرفتن نقش های کلیدی استقبال نمی کند، بوده است. این مسجد این ایده را ترویج می‌کند که زنان مسلمان آمریکایی هم می‌توانند علاوه بر عالمان دینی مرد، مقام و موقعیت های کلیدی دینی را در اختیار داشته باشند. اکثر زنانی که در این مسجد خطبه و نماز می خوانند، آموزش رسمی مذهبی یا تخصص عربی ندارند و از نظر نژادی و قومی متنوع هستند و تجربیات مختلف حرفه ای و فعالیت های اجتماعی خود را به اشتراک می گذارند. مسجد زنان آمریکا از زنانی دعوت می‌کند که از مساجد اصلی آمریکا ناراضی هستند و مایلند نقش‌های محوری بیشتری در توسعه مذهبی خود ایفا کنند. ... 👈 ⁣ادامه مطلب ❇️ American Muslim women are finding a unique religious space at a women-only mosque in L.A. The Women’s Mosque of America was founded in 2015 by two South Asian American Muslim women – comedy writer M. Hasna Maznavi and attorney Sana Muttalib. It was conceived as a space to empower Muslim women to take on active roles in their individual community mosques and influence changes in a mosque culture that is often unwelcoming to women. The mosque promotes the idea that religious authority can be held by lay American Muslim women, as opposed to only male religious scholars with traditional credentials... 👉 ⁣Read more @IRIC_org

🔰 مرکز آموزش آزادی مذهبی : مؤسسه آزادی مذهبی (RFI) آغاز به کار مرکز آموزش آزادی مذهبی (CRFE) را اعلام کرد و 5 ماه می 2022، رویداد مهمی را تحت عنوان "منبع شکست یا یک بنیاد؟ نقش آموزش در پیشبرد آزادی مذهبی" در باشگاه دانشگاه در واشنگتن دی سی برگزار کرد. مؤسسه آزادی مذهبی (RFI) در سال 2019 در تقابل با تهاجم علیه آزادی مذهبی در ایالات متحده تأسیس شد. این مرکز برنامه‌های درسی گسترده‌ای را ایجاد کرده است که دانش‌آموزان ابتدایی، راهنمایی، دبیرستان و دانشجویان دانشگاه را با مفاهیم آزادی بیان مذهبی و شکوفایی آن در نهاد دولت و آموزش های اجتماعی آشنا می سازد. این مرکز همچنین آموزش هایی را برای رهبران کلیسا و انجمن های حرفه ای انجام داده، کنفرانس های دانشگاهی را حمایت مالی میکند، و دوره های کارآموزی ترمیک و تابستانی را برای دانشجویان کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد هدایت می کند. ... 👈 ادامه مطالب 🔰RFI announces the nationwide expansion of the Center for Religious Freedom Education The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce the nationwide expansion of the Center for Religious Freedom Education (CRFE), which RFI marked on May 5th with a major event titled, "Source of Fracture or a Foundation? The Role of Education in Advancing Religious Freedom." It was held at the University Club in Washington, D.C... 👉 ⁣Read more @IRIC_org

❇️ Who is the Hidden Imam? 🔹 A Brief Overview of the Concept of al-Mahdi @IRIC_org 🎥 Watch high quality version on YouTube or Instagram here: 🔸YouTube : https://youtu.be/Xo7y2iSNNL8 🔸Instagram : https://bit.ly/3GfJ8yR 👉 In order to introduce the hidden Imam to others , please feel free to share this video with your interested friends! 💐 We appreciate your support as always! IRIC @IRIC_org

❇️ Who is the Hidden Imam? 🔹 A Brief Overview of the Concept of al-Mahdi 🎥 Watch high quality version on YouTube or Instagram here: 🔸YouTube : https://youtu.be/Xo7y2iSNNL8 🔸Instagram : https://bit.ly/3GfJ8yR 👉 In order to introduce the hidden Imam to others , please feel free to share this video with your interested friends! 💐 We appreciate your support as always! IRIC @IRIC_org

✅ کنفرانس: "مطالعات مسلمانان انگلیس در 50 سال اخیر: نگاه به گذشته و چشم انداز آینده" 🔹تاریخ: 14 و 15 سپتامبر 2022 🔸مهلت ارسال چکیده: 15 ژوئن 2022 🔻سازماندهی شده توسط: شبکه تحقیقاتی مسلمانان در انگلیس و مرکز اسلام- بریتانیای دانشگاه کاردیف طی یک دهه گذشته ، مطالعات مسلمانان بریتانیا (BMS) شاهد ظهور و شکوفایی گروههای پی در پی دانشمندان از درون جوامع مسلمان بوده است که با بازنگری تعاریف، مفاهیم و زمینه های علمی با پدیده ای غنی و حیرت آور از تخصص ها روبرو هستیم. این پدیده، همراه با سنت طولانی همکاری و مشارکت با مؤسسات وابسته، شاغلین و مشارکت های مردمی بدان معناست که فرصت شگفت انگیزی برای مرکز مطالعات مسلمان بریتانیا به وجود آمده است تا نگاه عبرت آموزی به 50 سال گذشته داشته باشد و در عین حال به دنبال چشم انداز آینده این مطالعات باشد. این کنفرانس برخی از مشارکتهای اصلی انجام شده با موسسه، با تمرکز خاص روی موسسات تحقیقاتی و مراکز را شامل می شود. همچنین به دو نفر از اساتید پیشگام موسسه به نامهای محمد انور و عطا الله صدیقی، ادای احترام می شود. از محققین دارای PhD و دانشگاهیان دعوت شده است تا چکیده های خود را در موضوعات پیشنهادی برای کنفرانس ارسال نمایند. • تولید مشترک و همکاری بین محققان و جوامع • هم افزایی (یا تنش) بین دانشگاهیان و کارورزان • روشهای تحقیقاتی نوآورانه و بررسی روشهای موجود... 👈 ادامه مطلب ✅ “British Muslim Studies at 50: Retrospect and Prospect” 🔹Date: September 14-15, 2022 🔸Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022 🔻Organizer: The Muslims in Britain Research Network, The Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University Over the past decade or so, British Muslim Studies (BMS) has seen the emergence and flourishing of successive cohorts of scholars from within Muslim communities – complicating and enriching the field by interrogating definitions, concepts and parameters of understanding. This, coupled with the long tradition of engagement... 👉 ⁣Read more @IRIC_org

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