Islam

 

We are very excited about this upcoming performance of Unveiled! Rohina Malik, a Pakastani American is a Chicago based performing artist, and in this play, she portrays 5 different Muslim women from five different muslim contexts.  It is a powerful play that you do not want to miss! For more information and to register for this FREE event, refer to the event site.

When: December 10th, 6pm Reception, 7pm Performance
Where: Bade Museum/ Doug...

Center for Islamic Studies Reception Join us in celebrating this year's CIS graduates!   Location Center for Islamic Studies 2452 Virginia Street Berkeley, CA 94709   For more information contact us at cis@gtu.edu

Songs for the Spirit: Benefit Concert for Islamophobia Research and Documentation at UC Berkeley Featuring the Aswat Sacred Music Ensemble    Location Zaytuna College 2401 Le Conte Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709   More info at Zawaya.org: http://zawaya.org/site/?p=3350

When Opposites Attract: The Fusion Calligraphy of Haji Noor Deen The Chinese and Arabic calligraphic traditions have often been compared as two of the world's finest manifestations of the written word. They are at once opposites and complements. In his extraordinary work, the master calligrapher Haji Noor draws deeply from these two rich lettering traditions to present a distinctive calligraphic style that is both Eastern and Western.     ...

Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation, and Islamic Revival   Granada, Spain  

Faculty include, CIS Director, Munir Jiwa.

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5th Annual International Islamophobia Conference Latent and Manifest Islamophobia: Multimodal Engagements with the Production of Knowledge   Location  UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law (Booth Auditorium) 2778 Bancroft Way/College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94710   for more information visit islamophobiacon.com  

Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender (CRG), UC Berkeley, and the Center for Islamic Studies (CIS)

SPRING OPEN HOUSE RECEPTION at the Center for Islamic Studies

 

Meet our students, scholars, learn about our programs, and get involved!

Location Center for Islamic Studies  2452 Virginia Avenue Berkeley, California 94709  

All welcome! 

Cultural Equity: Ways of Looking at Islamic Art, presentation by Carol Bier

Carol Bier, Islamic Art Historian & Visiting Scholar at the Center for Islamic Studies (GTU) presentation to be held in Professor Munir Jiwa's Islam in the Public Sphere class

 

Location: Pacific School of Religion (PSR), Mudd 103 

  All welcome!  for more information  contact mjiwa@gtu.edu

 

Between Racial Chauvinism and Counterproductive Universalism  Searching for a Meaningful African American Muslim Discourse   Featuring Dr. Fatimah Jackson   In recognition of Black History Month, Zaytuna College presents a lecture by Professor Fatimah Jackson, a distinguished American Muslim scholar whose academic interests straddle the fields of anthropology, biology, genetics, and African American studies. A professor of biological...