Category: Event Coverage
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Muslims and Christians in Thailand: Jesuits and the Asian Muslim Action Network
February 6th, 2019 - Fr. Thomas Michel, S.J., Professor of Religion, Xavier Learning Community, spoke at ACMCU on the Jesuit history within Thailand and the research he has…
February 12, 2019
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From Karbala to Qadisiyyah: The Spectacle of the “Other” in Persian Literary Tradition
December 5th, 2018 – Dr. Abbas Jamshidi, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, spoke at ACMCU on the representation of the “…
December 19, 2018
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“The Hadith in Islamic Thought and Practice” International Workshop
November 4th-5th, 2018 – ACMCU and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) co-sponsored a two day workshop to deepen and widen an understanding of Islamic thought…
December 17, 2018
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Anti-Islamic Campaigns and Internment Camps for Muslims in China
November 28th, 2018 – Since 2017, up to a million Turkic Muslim people have been interned in Xinjiang, China in a growing gulag of “re-education” camps…
December 17, 2018
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The Abode of Peace: The Prophet, the Qur'an, and Turning the Other Cheek
November 27th, 2018 – Dr. Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, spoke at ACMCU on themes of peace in the Meccan chapters of the Qur’an and…
December 17, 2018
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The Ban: The Human Cost of Trump's Travel Ban
October 31st, 2018 – Filmmaker and Al Jazeera America journalist Laila Al-Arian presented her Emmy Award winning documentary, “The Ban: the human cost of Trump’…
December 17, 2018
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Muslim Gravestones in Detroit
October 31st, 2018 – Gravestones can be used to document and explain the exceptional internal diversity of the Muslim community of southeast Michigan. In reality, this is…
December 17, 2018
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Sufism and Islamic Scholarship in the 18th Century
October 5th, 2018 – New research has definitively overturned the mistaken notion that the late medieval Islamic world was a period of intellectual stagnation. Particularly…
December 17, 2018
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Islam: As a Discourse of Resistance In Iran
October 3rd, 2018 – Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East. He specializes on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant in the 20th century, focusing on such themes…
December 17, 2018
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Religion and Democracy in Indonesia
October 2nd, 2018 – Indonesia is experiencing an Islamic renaissance: a flowering of religious ideas, art, literature, architecture, institutions, and intellectual…
December 17, 2018