Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am writing to you about two things regarding the British Association for
Islamic Studies (BRAIS):

Firstly, BRAIS MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OPEN. To find out more about membership
categories and too become a member please visit the membership pages on our
website http://www.brais.ac.uk/membership/ Please feel free to write to me
if you have any queries about membership

Bettina Schmidt

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Secondly, we also want to remind you about the deadline for proposal
submissions for our inaugural conference, SHOWCASING ISLAMIC STUDIES IN THE
UK

Deadline for proposal submissions: MONDAY 9 DECEMBER 2013

Conference Registration Opens: January 2014

Deadline for Registration: Monday 10 March 2014

Conference Dates: Thursday 10 - Friday 11 April 2014

Conference venue: University of Edinburgh



Proposal Process: Individual proposals will also be considered, and, if
accepted, will be grouped with similar submissions by the conference
organisers. 200-word outlines of panels, together with 200-word abstracts of
each paper proposed for panels, should be submitted in Word format by e-mail
attachment to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 5 pm (UK time) on
MONDAY 9 DECEMBER. Proposals must include short biographies of each
speaker (including details of institutional affiliation and e-mail address).

Call for panels and papers details: As a follow-up to the very successful
work of the Islamic Studies Network between 2009 and 2012, a learned society
for Islamic Studies, the British Association for Islamic Studies
(www.brais.ac.uk<http://www.brais.ac.uk/>) has been established. The
Inaugural Conference of the Association will be held in the University of
Edinburgh on 10 - 11 April 2014, and the organisers invite proposals for
whole panels or individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic
Studies, broadly understood to include both Muslim-majority and
Muslim-minority contexts, and any region of the Islamic World (e.g. Middle
East, South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa), with a view to the
conference as a whole providing a showcase of the range and depth of Islamic
Studies today across the UK. Panels are particularly welcome on themes
within the subject, such as: Qur'anic Studies; Law; History; Philosophy and
Theology; Intellectual History; Civilisation (arts and science); Economics
and Finance; Education; Gender Studies; Islam in the Media; Islam in South
Asia; Muslims in Britain/Europe/the West; etc. Please note that we welcome
proposals from colleagues working outside the UK

Please feel free to contact me or a member of the BRAIS team
([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you have queries about any of the
above.



Best Wishes,

Sariya

Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Postdoctoral Researcher | Centre for Society, Religion &
Belief<http://www.derby.ac.uk/health/social-care/research-groups/society-religion-and-belief-research-group>
Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences | University of Derby
Kedleston Road | Derby | DE22 1GB
Tel: 01332 591558 | Email:
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Web Officer: British Association for Islamic studies (BRAIS)
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