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November 2015

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Events

Prof. Esposito Speaks at IIIT's Special Lecture at AAR

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held their second annual AAR Reception and Special Lecture featuring Georgetown University's Professor John L. Esposito at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Atlanta, GA, on November 22nd, 2015.

IIIT at AAR: Book Exhibit, Reception, and Special Lecture

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) participated in the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Atlanta, GA, which was held from Saturday, Nov. 21, through Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015.

Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies

in Theological Seminaries

On Saturday, November 21st, 2015, a panel co-organized by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) entitled "Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies in Theological Seminaries," took place from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. during the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) at the Marriott Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Norbani: Female Muslim Preachers in Malaysia

Dr. Norbani Ismail

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) invited Dr. Norbani Ismail to share her research on Malaysian women preachers on Nov. 18, 2015. Her talk was titled, "Female Muslim Preachers in Malaysia: Reaffirming Orthodoxy through Activism."

Dr. Laher's "Twisted Threads"

Dr. Suheil Laher

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) hosted Dr. Suheil Laher on Oct. 29, 2015, for a lecture titled, "Twisted Threads: Concept of Tawatur (Perpetuation) in Islamic Thought."

Unity of Ummah: Limits and Etiquette of Disagreement

The Institute of Objective Studies hosted a lecture on the "Unity of Ummah: Limits and Etiquette of Disagreement" on October 31, 2015 at the conference hall of the Institute in New Delhi, India.

CAIR's Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Hisham Altalib

During its 21st annual banquet on October 17, 2015, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presented its Lifetime Achievement award to Dr. Hisham Altalib, a founder of IIIT and a Board of Trustees Member. Dr. Altalib commended CAIR for its tireless efforts to ensure civil rights for everyone in the Untied States and beyond. After explaining the "four landmarks in my life that made it possible for me to stand beside you tonight," Dr. Altalib thanked CAIR for honoring him with the award and concluded with: "The leader of the people is their servant."

2016 IIIT Winter Student Program

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is inviting applications from undergraduate students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada to apply for 2016 IIIT Winter Student Program (WSP) in Islamic Studies. WSP is designed for currently enrolled undergraduate students, regardless of their major or program of study. The program provides a 5-day intensive study of major topics related to Islam, including: The Qur'anic Worldview, Sunnah and Its Relevance, Islam in America, Fiqh (Jurisprudence) and Maqasid al-Shari'ah (Objectives of Islamic Law), Contemporary Issues in Interpreting Islam, Revival and Reform in Islam, and Muslim Responses to Modernity, among others.

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i-Epistemology

The Islamic Epistemology e-Newsletter

(Volume 3, Issue 21, November 15, 2015)

Featured Scholar

Dr. Irfan Ahmad (Ph.D., cum laude, University of Amsterdam) is Associate Professor of Political Anthropology at the Institute for Religion and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, ACU, Melbourne. Earlier, he was a senior lecturer in politics at Monash University, Australia where he taught for nearly five years. Before moving to Australia, he taught at Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam. He was a Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Irfan is the author of Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Princeton University Press, 2009) which was short-listed for the 2011 ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) Book Prize for the best study in the field of Social Sciences. His numerous research articles have appeared in leading international/global journals such as Anthropological Theory, Citizenship Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, Modern Asian Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Politics, Religion, Ideology, Seminar and The Annual of Urdu Studies. He is a contributor to the prestigious The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Irfan is on the Editorial Committee of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and Associate Editor of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. He has held visiting fellowship and other positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany and The Graduate Centre, CUNY, New York. Irfan contributes to debates in the media such as AL-Jazeera, BBC, The Times of India, Open Democracy and his interviews have appeared in Dutch, English, Hindi, Malayalam, Turkish and Urdu media.

(courtesy: https://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=6420)

Dr. Ahmad's website

Arabic Articles

Article by Dr. Taha Jabir Alwani

الإنسلاخ من الآيات حقيقته وكيفيته - د. طه جابر العواني

Books-in-Brief

Understanding Maqasid al-Shariah: A Contemporary Perspective by Musfir binAli al Qahtani

Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine: A Comparative Study of Western Secular and Islamic Bioethics by Sharmin Islam

Toward Our Reformation: From Legalism to Value-Oriented Islamic Law and Jurisprudence by Mohammad Omar Farooq

Epistemological Integration: Essentials of an Islamic Methodology by Fathi Malkawi

In Service of God and Humanity: The Legacy of Shaykh Muhammad al Ghazali

by Benaouda Bensaid

The Qur'anic Worldview: A Springboard for Cultural Reform by AbdulHamid AbuSulayman

The Islamic Vision of Development in the Light of Maqasid al-Shariah by Muhammad Umer Chapra

Maqasid Al-Shariah: A Beginner's Guide by Jasser Auda

Maqasid Al-Shariah Made Simple by Mohammad Hashim Kamali

New Titles @ Al Alwani Library

Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and

Barbara Freyer Stowasser (Editors)

The American Revolution as Affected by the Muslim World - Economically and Politically - A Historical Assessment by Syed Mahmood

Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic state by Roy Jackson

Ibn Taymiyya and his Times (Studies in Islamic Philosophy) by Yossef Rapoport

Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) by Asma Sayeed

God in the Tumult of the Global Square: Religion in Global Civil Society by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego, & John Soboslai

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, & John O. Voll

How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom by Jacues Berlinerblau

Muslims in the Western Imagination by Sophia Rose Arjana

Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims by Stephen Sheehi

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