Seyfeddin Kara
In Search of Ali ibn Abi Talib’s Codex:
History and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qur’an
With a Foreword by James Piscatori

Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin & London
Hardcover, 292 pages
ISBN: 978-3-959940-54-2
Publication date: August 2018
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Dr Leonard Lewisohn

The Iran Heritage Foundation greatly regrets to announce the death of Dr Leonard Lewisohn, who died suddenly in California on 6 th August while attending the Association for Iranian Studies conference. Lenny was Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow and Senior lecturer in Persian and Sufi Literature at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (2004-2011).

1.6th International Conference on “Islam & Liberty – Building an Islamic Case for Open Markets”, Islamabad, 14-15 November 2018 The conference brings together academics and researchers to present and discuss papers on the current discourse on Islam, society and the world at large under the over-arching theme of Islam and

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Sunni Shia Dialogue – Event Highlights & Full Video Now Available

On April 28th, 2018, the Shia Muslim Council along with its partners, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, CAIR, MPAC and Bayan Claremont presented a unique symposium to discuss Sunni and Shia relations.

Articles for Edited Book “Beyond Karbala, New Approaches to Shīʿi Materiality”

This call for papers invites submissions focusing on materially expressed Shiism, with a renewed focus on non-ʿAshūrāʾ rituals, practices and objects.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2018. Information: https://bit.ly/2n4aKzi

1.De-centering the Global Middle Ages February 8-9, 2019, University of Michigan The Department of History and Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program at the University of Michigan invite proposals for a February 8-9, 2019 symposium, “De-centering the Global Middle Ages.” This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages”

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Afghan Shia mosque attack kills 25

A suicide bomber has killed 25 people and injured at least 23 more in an attack on a Shia mosque in Afghanistan, an official has told the BBC. The attacker struck as people were attending Friday prayers in the eastern city of Gardez, Paktia province spokesman Abdullah Asrat said.

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I CONCURSO LATINOAMERICANO DE CREACIÓN CULTURAL DE EID AL-GHADIR

En el Nombre de Dios, Clemente, Misericordioso. Con el objetivo de celebrar el día en el que el Profeta Muhammad (P) declaró frente a la Comunidad Islámica (Ummah) que tras su fallecimiento el liderazgo de la comunidad recaía en la persona de ‘Ali ibn abu Talib (P), en el evento conocido como Ghadir Jum; el Centro Islámico Amir al-Muminin (P) con sede en la Ciudad de México, México; tiene el placer de publicar la siguiente CONVOCATORIA, para todos los musulmanes de Latinoamérica.

Prominent Saudi Women Activists Arrested

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities have arrested the internationally recognized women’s rights activist Samar Badawi and an Eastern Province activist, Nassima al-Sadah, in the past two days, Human Rights Watch said today. Badawi and al-Sadah are the latest victims of an unprecedented government crackdown on the women’s rights movement that began on May 15, 2018 and has resulted in the arrest of more than a dozen activists.

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Precarious Belongings: Being Shiʿi in Non-Shiʿi Worlds (2017)
Edited by Charles Tripp and Gabriele vom Bruck

What is it that makes members of Shi`i communities distinct from other communities? This is the question that lies at the heart of the contributions to this volume. They range across a number of diverse settings precisely to bring out those features of the social and political life of the Shi`a that may be recognisably Shi`i, but are also the outcome of their interactions with specific social contexts.

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