Category: Videos
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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
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Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land
In September 12, of 2018 ACMCU and CCAS co-presented an international panel on the subject of Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land. For this event, ACMCU and CCAS hosted three…
December 17, 2018
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Reflections on Thirty Years of Muslim-Christian Relations in Egypt
There is an urgent need for more fieldwork in Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. Too much of reporting on these issues is either ideologically motivated or supported by…
December 17, 2018
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SCL and Cambridge Analytica: Peering Inside the Propaganda Machine
Cambridge Analytica, and their parent company SCL Group hit the headlines recently, when, after their work on the Trump campaign, reporting exposed misuse of Facebook data,…
December 17, 2018
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A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is
On April 25th, Dr. John McHugo began by covering the decades following the death of the Prophet Muhammad which ended with civil war engulfing the Muslim community. This crucial…
December 17, 2018
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“The Abode of Peace: The Prophet, The Quran, and Turning the other Cheek”, with Dr. Juan Cole
In late November of 2018, Dr. Juan R.I. Cole presented a talk at Georgetown University's Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding on the history of the…
December 12, 2018
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“Anti-Islamic Campaigns and Internment Camps for Muslims in China”, with Dr. James Millward
In December of 2018, Dr. Abbas Jamshidi presented a talk at ACMCU on the concept of the "Other" in Persian storytelling traditions and how this othering impacts inter…
December 6, 2018