Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific
Bridging Information, Knowledge and Cultures toward a Balanced View of Islam

School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
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17 August 2010, Issue #42


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     Aloha! With the arrival of the Ramadhan season, we are pleased to bring you this week's issue on Islam and civil society.  Explore with us the goodwill, generosity, volunteerism and dynamism behind the Islamic civil society sector in Asia and the Pacific.

 

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   Also, visit http://www.msaphawaii.org for more of the the MSAP booklist and our social media sites for further updates.

Ramadhan Mubarak,
Program Coordinators, MSAP

 

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Featured Resources

islam and civil soc


Islam and Civil Society
more info

Islam, Dialogue and
Civil Society
more info

Islamic Civil Society
in Malaysia

more info

Building Muslim Civil Society      from Bottom Up
Minaret of Freedom
more info

cbcs


Consortium of Bangsamoro
Civil Society
more info

Building Bridges:
Engaging Civil Society from the
Muslim States and Communities with the Multilateral Sphere
South Asia Partnership - Pakistan (PDF)
more info

Muslim World Outreach and
Engaging Muslim Civil Society
USAID (PDF)
more info   

International Centre for
Islam and Pluralism
more info

 


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Calls for Submissions


JOURNAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Middle Ground:
An Online Journal for
World Historians
The College of St. Scholastica
Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Ongoing                                                               
more info


Asian Women
Interdisciplinary Journal
on Women and Gender Studies

Research Institute of Asian Women
Sookmyung Women's University
Ongoing
Email asianfem@sm.ac.kr

CONFERENCE OPPORTUNITIES

Workshop on Language,
Literacy and Social construction
in Islamic Societies
3 - 4 March 2011
Stanford University, California, USA
Deadline: 1 September 2010
more info

Mindanao Conference on
Issues and Development

8 - 9 November 2010
Davao City, Philippines

Full paper deadline: 11 September 2010
more info

1st Global Conference:
Urban Pop Cultures and
Subcultures
Prague, Czech Republic
8 - 10 March 2010
Ongoing
more info


Symposium: Institutional Void
and the Governance of

Developing Economies
16 May 2011
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2010
Email m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl for info

History and Cultures of Friendship in Precolonial South Asia
2 - 3 May 2011
University of Pennsylvania

Abstract deadline: 1 December 2010
Please contact Dr Daud Ali
(daudali@sas.upenn.edu) or Dr Emma Flatt (ejflatt@ntu.edu.sg) for more info

Performing Arts as Creative Industries in Asia (PACIA) 2011
23 - 24 March 2011
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2010
more info


Cambodia From Then to Now: Memory and Plural Identities
in the Aftermath of the Genocide
International Colloquium
5 - 7 May 2011
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Deadline: 1 October 2010
more info


CALL FOR PANELISTS

Post/Colonial Nostalgia
in South Asian Literature
7 - 10 April 2011
42nd Annual Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2010
more info

 

UH Fall Courses

Culture and Colonialism
(ASAN 624)

Tuesday, 3:00 - 5: 30 pm
more info

Civilizations of Asia
(ASAN 241)

MWF, 8:30 - 9:20 am
more info

Islamic Philosophy
(PHIL 330)

Thursday, 7:30 - 8:45 am
more info

 

Religion, Politics and Society
(REL 348)
Monday, 12:30 - 3:00 pm
more info

Asia through Fiction
(ASAN 491s)

MWF, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
more info


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Events in Honolulu


The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation
and Conservation
11 - 13 February 2010
Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
more info

aasa


Diversity: Impressions and
Expressions at UH Manoa

    The African-American Student Alliance
of UH Manoa is publishing a handbook and directory of culture-based student organizations. Interested groups may contact Paris Watson at pwatson@hawaii.edu for inclusion on the directory and for more info.

East-West Treasures: Works from the Permanent Collection
Through 3 October 2010
East-West Center Gallery
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i
more info

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Events Elsewhere

 

The 2nd International Workshop on Islamic Economics:
Islamic and Conventional Microfinance
6 - 10 December 2010
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

more info

New Horizons in Islamic Area Studies: Continuity,  Contestations and the Future

17 - 19 December 2010
Kyoto International Conference Center
Kyoto, Japan                          
more info

The Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
27 - 29 August 2010
Hangzhuo, China                          
more info


2nd International Conference
on Islamic Science and Technology
20 - 21 October 2010
Johor Bahru, Malaysia
more info

Global Islamic Finance
Forum 2010
25 - 28 October 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
more info

Asia Strategy Forum
28 - 29 October 2010
New Delhi, India
more info



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Application Deadlines

 


OPEN POSITIONS


Assistant Professor
of Social and Scientific
Study of Religion

Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Deadline: 15 October 2010
more info                                    

Assistant Professor
of History

Mississippi University for Women
Mississippi, USA
Deadline: Ongoing
more info

Assistant Professor
of History of Women / Gender

University of Oregon
Portland, Oregon, USA
Deadline: 15 October 2010

Assistant Professor
of Modern Chinese History

Clark University
Massachusetts, USA
15 November 2010
more info

Senior Research Associate
and Director

South Asia Language Resource Center,
University of Chicago
1 August 2010
more info

Lecturer or Visiting Professor (Specialist in Asian Art
and Architecture History
and Theory and Asian Studies)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, MA, USA
1 October 2010
more info

Associate or Full Professor
in Cultural Anthropology
College of the Atlantic
Maine, USA
Review of applications will begin
22 September 2010
more info

Assistant Professor
in South Asian History
Carleton College
Minnesota, USA
1 November 2010
more info

Assistant Professor
of Diasporas in Asian History
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Wisconsin, USA
1 November 2010
more info

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS


Fellowships in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars
1 October 2010
more info

Travel Grants for
Chinese Scholars

to attend the Workshop on
Governmentality in China
30 November - 2 December 2010
Lund University, Sweden
1 September 2010
more info

Assistant Professor
of South Asian History

Boston University
Massachusetts, USA
1 November 2010
more info

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In This Issue
Featured Resources: Islam and Civil Society
Call for Submissions: The Middle Ground - An Online Journal for World Historians
UH FALL COURSES: Civilizations of Asia (ASAN 241)
Honolulu News & Events: Diversity: Impressions and Expressions
Global Events: Asia Strategy Forum
Stay Updated with the MSAP Facebook, Twitter and VMEO
Application Deadlines: Assistant Professor of the Scientific Study of Religion
Publications: Islam and Civil Society in Southeast Asia
Online Resources: Globalization and Muslim Societies
  
publicationsPublications


islam and civil soc in SEA
Islam and Civil Society
in Southeast Asia

Mitsuo Nakamura,
Sharon Siddique,
Omar Farouk Bajunid
(editors)
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
2006


public islam and common good
Public Islam and
the Common Good:
Social, Economic and
Political Studies of the
Middle East and Asia
Armando Salvatorre and
Dale Eickelman (editors)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2006

public sphere

The Public Sphere in
Muslim Societies

Miriam Hoexter
Shmuel Eisenstadt
Nehemia Levtzion
(editors)
State University of
New York Press, 2002

islamic modern
Islamic Modern:
Religious Courts and
Cultural Politics
in Malaysia
Michael G. Peletz
Princeton University Press
2002



islam civil soci
Islamic Political Ethics:
Civil Society, Pluralism
and Conflict
Sohail H. Hashmi (editor)
Princeton University Press, 2002

rise and fall
Rise and Fall of
Islamic Civil Society
Omar Imady
MSI Press, 2005


islam civl soc market eco
Islam, Civil Society
and Market Economy
Attila Yayla
Liberty Books, 2002


multiple modernities
Multiple Modernities,
Civil Society and Islam
Masoud Kamali

Liverpool University Press, 2006

 



onlineONLINE RESOURCES

globalization

Globalization and
Muslim Societies

more info

Islamic Humanitarian
Service

more info


islamic finance
Islamic Finance
more info

ANU AccesAsia database online resource

The Asian Studies  WWW Monitor
ANU College of Asia
and the Pacific

more info

islamic finder

Islamic Finder 

more info


mandala seal

South/Southeast
Asia Library
University of California Berkeley
more info

co-exist
Muslim West
Facts Project
Gallup - Co-exist Foundation
more info

princeton online

Digital library of Islamic manuscripts

Princeton University
more info


Islam & Tibet: Cultural Interactions
(8-17th centuries)

more info

oxford logo
Oxford Islamic
Studies Online
more info

muslimness logo
Muslimness.com
more info

uyghur calligraphy
Meshrep.com
(website on
Uyghur culture)

more info

 

islamic manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts
The Walters Art Museum
(digital media)

more info

islamic heritage project logo
Islamic Heritage Project: Database of Manuscripts
by the Open Collections Program at Harvard University
more info

soundvision logo
Translating the Untranslatable:
A Survey of English Translations of the Quran by A.R. Kidwai
more info

altmuslimah
Alt.Muslimah.com:
Exploring both sides of the gender divide
more info

 

wemc logo
Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts
at the City University of Hong Kong
more info

center for study of contemporary
Centre for the Study of Contemporary
Muslim Societies

University of Western Sydney
more info

crcs logo
Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies
Gadjah Mada University
more info

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Mapping the Global Muslim Population
Pew Forum on Religion
and Public Life

more info

NBR logo
ACCESS ASIA

by the National Bureau of Asian Research
more info

muslim cambodian
Southeast Asian Forum on Islam
and Democracy

more info

diversity and conformity
Diversity and Conformity
in Muslim Societies:
Historical Coexistence
and Contemporary
Struggles
more info

 English-language Online

Newspapers

Al Jazeera: The Asia Blog
 
Bangkok Post
 
Bangladesh Today
 
Brunei Times
 
China Daily
 
China View
 
Daily Outlook Afghanistan
 
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
 
Daily Yomiuri Online
 
Dawn (Pakistan)
 
Haveeru Daily (Maldives)
 
Hindustan Times
 
Jakarta Post
 
Japan Times Online
 
JoongAng Daily
 
Korea Times
 
Mainichi Daily News
 
Maldives Chronicle
 
Manila Times
 
Mindanao Examiner -
News blog
 
New Light of Myanmar
 
Myanmar Times

New Straits Times (Malaysia)
 
Philippine New Agency
 
Phnom Penh Post
 
Saudi Gazette
 
Shanghai Daily
 
Star (Malaysia)
 
Straits Times (Singapore)
 
Statesman (India)
 
Times of India
 
Viet Nam News



Academic Journals

Comparative Islamic Studies
 
Contemporary Islam
 
Indonesia and the Malay World
 
Islamic Law & Society
 
Journal of Asian and African Studies
 
Journal of Islam in Asia
 
Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law
 
Journal of Islamic Studies
 
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

Journal of Religion

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
  
The Muslim World
 
The Silk Road



The Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific program at the University of Hawai'i-Mānoa, is a newly launched initiative, funded in part by the State of Hawai'i Legislature, the School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS), and the US Department of Education. MSAP seeks to serve as a national resource center for academics and the general public seeking information on Muslim societies in Asia and the Pacific.

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