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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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Islam and Civil Society
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.
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 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

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
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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

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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Publications
 Islam and Civil Society in Southeast Asia Mitsuo Nakamura, Sharon Siddique, Omar Farouk Bajunid (editors) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2006
 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

The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies Miriam Hoexter Shmuel Eisenstadt Nehemia Levtzion (editors) State University of New York Press, 2002
 Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia Michael G. Peletz Princeton University Press 2002
 Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism and Conflict Sohail H. Hashmi (editor) Princeton University Press, 2002
 Rise and Fall of Islamic Civil Society Omar Imady MSI Press, 2005
 Islam, Civil Society and Market Economy Attila Yayla Liberty Books, 2002
 Multiple Modernities, Civil Society and Islam Masoud Kamali Liverpool University Press, 2006
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ONLINE RESOURCES

Globalization and Muslim Societies more info
Islamic Humanitarian Service more info
 Islamic Finance more info

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

Islamic Finder
more info

South/Southeast Asia Library University of California Berkeley more info
 Muslim West Facts Project Gallup - Co-exist Foundation more info

Digital library of Islamic manuscripts
Princeton University more info
Islam & Tibet: Cultural Interactions (8-17th centuries)
more info
 Oxford Islamic Studies Online more info
 Muslimness.com more info
 Meshrep.com (website on Uyghur culture) more info
 Islamic Manuscripts The Walters Art Museum (digital media) more info
 Islamic Heritage Project: Database of Manuscripts by the Open Collections Program at Harvard University more info
Translating the Untranslatable: A Survey of English Translations of the Quran by A.R. Kidwai more info
 Alt.Muslimah.com: Exploring both sides of the gender divide more info
 Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts at the City University of Hong Kong more info
 Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies University of Western Sydney more info
 Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies Gadjah Mada University more info
 Mapping the Global Muslim Population Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
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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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