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Monday, 20 May 2013


CCI Conference: "The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa" September 5th-6th, 2013

The focus of this conference will be the Islamic manuscripts produced in sub-Saharan Africa, either in Arabic or in local languages written in the Arabic alphabet (‘ajami).

The aim of the conference is to gather contributions on the different dimensions of the manuscript, i.e. the materials, the technologies, the practices and the communities involved in the production, commercialization, circulation, preservation and consumption.

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Scholarships and Fellowship Opportunities, 2013

Religion education is a contested field in our changing societies and communities.

This project is dedicated to critically examine what is happening in South Africa.

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Opportunities for Short Fellowships

The CCI invites Research Fellows to join its research projects

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Religious Leadership in East Africa: Comparing Christian Evangelism and Islamic Reform

A workshop planned with East African Scholars of religions in 2013.

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