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“Islam and the Need for a New Epistemology in 21st Century.”
Third FOCUS Conference, Palembang, 23-24 April, 2010
The Third Forum Cendiakawan Umat Serantau (FOCUS) Conference was held at IAIN Raden Fatah, Palembang from 23 to 24 April, 2010. More than 50 scholars from Indonesia and Malaysia participated in the two days conference representing various academic institutions such as UIAN, IAIN and STAIN.
FOCUS was founded in 2006 as one of the intellectual and scholarly activities initiated by the IIITM (International Institute of Islamic Thought, Malaysia). Its main goal is to provide a healthy forum for Muslim academics and scholars especially from the Southeast Asian region to discourse on important issues pertaining to Islam and the Muslims and intellectual challenges confronting the contemporary Muslim ummah. The first FOCUS conference was held in December 2006 at Cherating, Kuantan, Pahang. FOCUS 2 was held in Kuala Lumpur on 23-25 January 2008.
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is pleased to announce its Summer Students Program for 2010, which will run for six weeks between Monday, June 28 and Friday, August 6, 2010. The program is designed for senior undergraduate and graduate students who are majoring in the humanities or social science disciplines and who have a particular interest in developing their knowledge and research skills in the core areas of Islamic studies such as Quran, Hadith, Fiqh or Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic History and Civilization, contemporary Islamic thought, Muslim world affairs and acquiring training in subjects ranging from Islamic finance to faith based entrepreneurship and research methods for Islamic studies.
During the course of the program, students would complete a total of 200 hours of directed research, instruction and administrative work at IIIT and would receive a certificate of completion from IIIT. Top performing students may qualify for a one year, non-resident research fellowship program at IIIT.
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Muslims, similar to other people, cannot escape the process of modernization and the growing integration and interconnectedness of people and societies around the world. This process can influence people in one of two ways; either, as argued by Fukuyama leading to “… an increasing homogenization of all human societies, regardless of their historical origins or cultural inheritances” (Fukuyama, 1992, p. xiv), or people may become even more aware of their differences as seen in the revival of traditional values and/or a rediscovery of indigenous cultures and religion.
The last decade has witnessed a mushrooming of Islamic movements that view themselves as counterforces to cultural domination by the West. While the goal of these groups is to assert their religious identity in the face of what they regard as imperializing ideas like modernization and secularism, many have also turned to radicalism, especially in circumstances where moderate ways of responding are perceived to be ineffective in producing results.
Many Muslim societies are presently caught at such a crossroad between the traditional and the modern, where the old institutions and values are increasingly being brought in contact with modern forces. But, how they have dealt or are dealing with this situation depends on many factors.
This special issue of Intellectual Discourse aims to publish papers that will examine how Muslims and Muslim countries cope with changes brought about by modernity to be in line with traditions. The following are some subthemes that can be used as guides:
· Tradition and modernity from the Islamic perspective
· Islam and secularization
· Islamizing modernity or modernizing Islam?
· Responses of Islamic movements to modernity
· Effects of modernity on people’s well-being
· Persistence of tradition in the face of modernity
· Modernity and the crisis of identity
· State and religion in the age of modernity
The guest editor for this special issue is Professor Abdul Rashid Moten. Manuscript submission should be made via email to him at
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. For guidelines to author instructions, please see http://iiu.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/about/submissions.
Deadline for submission: 31st December 2010 - Expected Publication June, 2011 |
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New Delhi, November 21: Renowned expert on education Prof. Mohammad Akhtar Siddiqui delivered a thought-provoking lecture here today at IOS auditorium on Empowerment of Muslims Through Education in the Light of National Knowledge Commission and Yashpal Committee reports as well as according to the provisions of the Right to Education Act. Prof. Siddiqui, who is the Chairperson of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), said that these three had enough provisions for the educational uplift of minorities. However, apathy on the part of bureaucracy and the Muslim community itself often prevents the beneficiaries from getting full advantage of the provisions. However, Prof. Siddiqui hastened to add that most government officials, especially at the higher levels, were cooperative and genuinely wanted to help. He said that a lot of schemes, central and state-level, were there in operation for minorities as a whole.
He explained that for the first time government had started educational schemes exclusively for Muslims. He regretted that Muslims by and large were self-centred and indifferent to the education of the community. He said two major initiatives were taken by the government – one in 1986 and another in 1992 – for educational uplift of minorities by launching several schemes. Many schemes did not succeed, but that should not deter us from continuing the endeavour, he added.
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A two-days workshop on ‘Islamization of Knowledge & Reforming the Curriculum of Economics & Management Sciences’ was held at (BIAM), Dhaka during 19-20th November 2009, organized by BIIT.
Prof. Dr. Aslam Haneef and Bro. Mustafa Omar Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, International Islamic University, Malaysia were present in the workshop as resource persons sponsored by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). The workshop was divided into six sessions. In the 1st , 2nd & 5th working session Prof. Dr. Aslam Haneef presented the following papers:
1. Islamization of Knowledge: Why, What & How?
2. Islamization of Economics: Why, What & How?
3. Teaching Islamic Economics: IIUM Experience
Bro. Mustafa Omar Mohammed presented the following papers in the 3rd, 4th & 6th working session:
1. Islamization of Economics: The Important Role of the Islamic Legacy,
2. Contemporary Islamic Economics in Practice: The Case of Islamic Banking & Finance.
3. The Curriculum of Economics and Management Sciences: IIUM Model
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Seminar on Islamic Values in Establishing the New Civilization was held at the Grand Hotel, Jambi on December 5, 2009 organized by Institut Agama Islam Negeri Sultan Thaha Saifuddin, Jambi. The seminar was attended by more than 200 participants including Vice Rectors, Deans and Vice Deans, Director of Post Graduate Studies, the Head of Programs, Professors, Lecturers, and Students of Post Graduate Studies from different parts of Jambi.
The seminar was officially open by the Deputy Governor of Jambi in the Human Resource Development on behalf of the Governor. In his remarks, the Governor congratulated both IAIN Jambi and IIIT for organizing such an important seminar in Jambi and offered his assistance and support in all aspects. Remark by IIIT was delivered by Bro Habib Chirzin where he expressed an appreciation for the cooperation and the need for education reform through series of Islamic Epistemology studies and curriculum reform.
Brother Dr. Yamin Azra'i Cheng as a resource person made a very interesting and enlightening presentation on "Islamic Epistemology, Education and Civilization Reform" with contextual explanation and examples. He outlined the process of modernity, its origin and how modernity is understood in the contemporary Muslim worlds. According to Dr. Yamin, contemporary Muslim should resolve the duality in understanding modernity and at the same time engaging and enriching the process.
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Organised by Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi & Department of Psycology Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh: 26 - 28 October, 2009
DAY-1 PROCEEDINGS
Aligarh, October 26: Modern psychology studies the material human being to the exclusion of the spiritual, Chairperson of Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Prof. Hamida Ahmad said here today.
Delivering the welcome address at the beginning of a three-day international conference on “Concept of Psyche in Islam,” she said in the United States she had seen works on psychology in Buddhist perspective and psychology in Hindu perspective, but precious little on Islamic psychology. She hoped the conference would initiate a process that would ultimately lead to meaningful studies in coming years.
The organising secretary of the event, Prof. Shamim A. Ansari of the AMU Department of Psychology, narrated how the psychology department had worked out a collaborative arrangement with the Delhi-based Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) to organise the conference. He hoped to continue holding such meets in future in collaboration with the IOS.
In his keynote address, Prof. Nizar Al Ani, Chancellor of International Academy for Graduate Studies, UAE, laid emphasis on developing an appropriate methodology for the understanding of the human psyche in Islamic perspective.
He said the work done in this regard had not been satisfactory. Work on this idea began in 1972. However, he was hopeful that more substantial work would begin to emerge in years ahead.
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