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Mir, Shabana. "AMSS Thirty-second Annual Conference." American Journal of Islam and Society 20, no. 3-4 (October 1, 2003): 224–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v20i3-4.1850.
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The Thirty-second Annual AMSS Conference, cosponsored this year byIndiana University's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program and thedepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, analyzed "EastMeets West: Understanding the Muslim Presence in Europe and NorthAmerica." Katherine Bullock (program committee chair, University ofToronto), Nazif Shahrani (professor of anthropology, director of MiddleEastern and Islamic studies program, Indiana University), PatrickO'Meara (dean, International Programs, Indiana University), and LouaySafi (president, AMSS) welcomed attendees and made introductoryremarks.Since the passing of Edward Said coincided with the beginning of theconference, in his welcoming remarks Shahrani referred to this greatscholar's lasting legacy. In fact, many panelists during the course of theconference talked about the importance of Said's research to their ownwork.Regular AMSS attendees such as myself would tell you that this conferencewas a tightly organized orchestra of excellent sessions, one after theother. The number of sessions was smaller than usual, and there were fewerparallel sessions, probably because far more academic rigor had been exercisedin selectiong papers than had been the case in previous conferences.A special delight on the first day was the lunch and jumu'ah prayer atthe Bloomington Islamic Center, catered and served by BloomingtonMuslim community volunteers. After these events, the conference beganin earnest. The opening panel, "A Political Philosophical Perspective onIslam and Democracy," featured M. A. Muqtedar Khan (Adrian College),who addressed the theoretical aspects of this debate, and Nazia Khandwalla(University of Texas), who looked at the debate in an empiricalstudy of slum-dwelling women in Karachi ...
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Sein, Layla. "The Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists." American Journal of Islam and Society 19, no. 4 (October 1, 2002): 150–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v19i4.1910.
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The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) held its thirty first annual conference in Washington, DC, from October 25-27, 2002, with the collaboration of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIID. The conference was cosponsored by the School of International Service, American University, and supported by the university's Ibn Khaldun Chair ofislamic Studies, Dr. Akbar Ahmed.
In his welcoming remarks, Dr. Louis Goodman, Dean of the School of International Service, American University, encouraged the use of academic forums to highlight social concerns of the larger world community. Introductory comments by AMSS President Dr. Louay Safi, stressed the need for scholars to examine the different agendas being introduced to address concepts dealing with the fears and concerns faced by the larger Muslim and non-Muslim communities in a post-9/11 world.
The Conference Chair, Dr. Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University, OC, hoped that this conference would promote debate on how Islam has been studied to date, and encourage Muslims to revisit moments in history to understand their community's position in world history. The conference theme, "The Muslim World after September 11: Agenda for Change," echoed in the presentations made by over 40 scholars in eight consecutive panels, one roundtable discussion, a plenary session, and a keynote address at the annual banquet. Students, academicians, activists, and intellectuals engaged in a lively debate with the panelists after their presentations. Media coverage was provided by the Washington Post and the Washington Times ...
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White, Svend W. "Third Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy." American Journal of Islam and Society 19, no. 2 (April 1, 2002): 139–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v19i2.1953.
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On April 6-7, 2002, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy(CSID) held its Third Annual Conference on the theme "Democratizationand Political Violence in Muslim Societies" just outside Washington, DC,at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. The conferencewas cosponsored by the Institute for Global Cultural Studies, StateUniversity of New York, Binghamton, NY, and the International Institute ofIslamic Thought (IIIT), VA.The conference got off to a lively start on Saturday morning with PanelOne: "Islam and Political Participation: Ideals, Actors, and Processes"which was chaired by Charles Butterworth of the University of Maryland,College Park. Asma Afsaruddin of the University of Notre Dame, IN,explored links between early Islamic discourse of the Khulafa 'a/-Rashidunera and modern Islamic conceptions of leadership in "Medieval IslamicDiscourse on Legitimate Leadership and its Modern Implications."Wanda Kruse of the University of Guelph, Canada, discussed theunderestimated role played by non-governmental political actors in theMiddle East in "Civil Society in the Democratization Process: A CaseStudy on Cairo Islamic Women's Organizations." Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad ofthe Minaret of Freedom Institute, MD, focused on the cases where democraticdecision-making in government enhanced law and order in earlyIslamic history in "The Anti-Correlation between Democracy and PoliticalViolence in the Experience of the Khulafa' al-Rashidun." Moataz A. Fattahof Cairo University closed the panel with an overview of empirical evidenceabout Muslims' attitudes towards democracy in "The Compatibilty ofMuslims' Beliefs and Democracy: Survey Results."Panel Two which was chaired by Jamal Barzinji of the InternationalInstitute of Islamic Thought had as its theme "Western Democracies andAuthoritarian Muslim Regimes: Understanding the Relationship." AuwaluHamisu Yadudu of Bayero University in no, Nigeria, analyzed the Shari'a ...
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Kelli, Deonna. "Islam and Society in the Twenty-First Century." American Journal of Islam and Society 17, no. 3 (October 1, 2000): 129–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v17i3.2055.
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The Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim SocialScientists took place October 13-15 at Georgetown University inWashington, DC. The event was titled Islam and Society in the Twenty-First Century and was cosponsored by John Esposito’s Center for MuslimChristian Understanding.Most members of this organization, old and new, considered this AMSSconference among the most successful for several reasons. It scored the bestattendance record in years and the presence of a new generation of bothmale and female Muslim academics. Participants commented positively onthe high quality of papers. The quality and quantity of the presenters andaudience members confirmed that the presence of Muslims in western academicinstitutions is growing.The conference was an international collection of Muslim and non-Muslim scholars with eighty academic papers and over ninety participantspresenting throughout the three-day event in panel sessions and roundtables.Running parellel to the academic session were community issues panels thatdrew in those who were interested in policy-related matters pertinent to theMuslim community. The academic participants of the conference reflectedupon topics that ranged from conceptual and theoretical issues to area andstrategic studies. Some of the themes explored were gender, global warming,globalization, Islamic law, Muslims in the West, cross-cultural communication,family and society, political theory, economics, Islamic philosophyand strategic studies panels on Pakistan and Afghanistan.The conference featured two plenary sessions that provided seminalscholars an opportunity to reflect upon issues facing Muslims in the newmillennium. Islam, Pluralism, and Democracy, moderated by KamalHassan (Rector of the International Islamic University of Malaysia), featuredMurad Hofmann, Abdel-Karim Soroush (Director of Institute ofEpistemological Research, Tehran), John Voll (Georgetown Univeristy),and Mumtaz Ahmad (President of AMSS). The session encouraged academicscholars to have a reflective rather than apologetic approach regardingIslam and to deflect questions from haw Islam is compatible withdemocracy to what type of democracy is compatible with Islam ...
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Sein, Layla. "The Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS)." American Journal of Islam and Society 18, no. 4 (October 1, 2001): 200–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v18i4.2001.
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The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) held its 30th annualconference with the collaboration of the International Institute of IslamicThought (IIIT) at the University of Michigan - Dearbom campus fromOctober 26 - 28,2001. Students, academicians, Muslim and non-Muslimintellectuals and activists were among the guests at the conferencecosponsored by the University of Michigan - Dearborn and its Center forArab-American Studies, and Project MAPS: Muslims in the AmericanPublic Square, Georgetown University.The conference theme "Religion and Public Life in the Global Epoch"echoed in the presentations given by eighty five panelists in twenty panelsand seven roundtable discussions, including one workshop; two plenarysessions; and a keynote address at the annual banquet. The social issuesoutlined and defined by Muslims and non-Muslims in these sessions didnot only encourage a stimulating and lively debate after the panel androundtable presentations, but they also advanced the development of theacademic forum fostered by the AMSS, since its inception, to analyze theapplication of an Islamic worldview on social issues in the larger worldcommunity.In his opening statement, AMSS President Mumtaz Ahmad, who is alsoa political science professor at Hampton University, underscored the needfor Muslim scholars and professionals to educate the public on Islam,and to work with people of different faith groups to influence the developmentof a global social order based on justice, morality and Godconsciousness.His remarks drew attention to the importance of establishinga better understanding of Islam and creating an awareness of ourcommon humanity. Professor Ahmad's opening remarks also set the tenorof the conference and established a theme based on peace and goodwilltowards mankind that echoed throughout the three-day gathering.In fact, the character of the conference was further established on the firstday at the Conference Reception hosted by the University of Michigan atthe Henry Ford Estate -Dearborn campus, when Dr. Ronald Stockton,Interim Director, Center for Arab-American Studies (CAAS), stated that ...
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Siddiqui, Dilnawaz A. "Social Sciences and Social Change." American Journal of Islam and Society 8, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 175–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v8i1.2655.
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The second decade of the association's existence culminated in a veryencouraging conference in Dearborn, Michigan this year.The conference highlights included a keynote address by Ali Mazrui,Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, State University of New Yorkat Binghamton, and addresses by 'AbdulHamid AbuSulayman, past presidentof AMSS and current rector of the Islamic University of Malaysia, and MunirAhmad Khan, director of the Pakstan Atomic Energy Commission. Mazrui,who focused on the Gulf crisis, spoke about the double standards practicedby the West in dealing with the Muslim ummah. AbuSulayman stressed theneed for reform of character at the individual level for achieving lasting socialchange.The Isma'il and Lamya' al Faruqi Memorial Lecture was delivered byJohn Esposito, director of the Center for International Studies, Holy CrossCollege, Worcester, Massachusetts and past president of the Middle EastStudies Association (MESA). He reminded the Muslim social scientists ofIsma'il al Faruqfs tradition, urging them to become activists and scholarsof Islam at the same time.The conference proceedings were spread over nineteen panels whichoffered a variety of papers on Islam and Muslim life by scholars from NorthAmerica and overseas.The tradition that had been revived three years ago was maintained, andthus the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE) also heldtheir annual conference concurrently with this year's AMSS conference. Theother tradition that continued was the trialogue between representatives ofthe three Abrahamic faiths.Another feature of the program was the incorporation of the AMSSBusiness Administration seminar. This program featured two panels. In thefirst panel, Ahmed M. Abo-Hebeish of Northrop Corporation discussed theframework of debtor-creditor relations as the foundation of financial accountingin Islam, and Mohamed A. El-Badawi of California State University addressedthe issue of computing zakatable funds.The other panel (Session 5: Panel 10) in this discipline had fourpresentations. The seminar chairman, Ghouse A. Shareef of Bellannine Collegein Kentucky, spoke on "Acountability, Congruency, and Equilibrium as the ...
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Khan, Saeed A. "Looking Beyond September 11." American Journal of Islam and Society 29, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 160–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v29i1.1223.
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The Fortieth Annual AMSS (Association of Muslim Social Scientists ofNorth America) Conference, held at John Jay College at the City Universityof New York in New York City, marked a decade since September 11 by reviewingthe past ten years of the Muslim narrative, with particular focus onthe past year and the considerable social and political changes in the MiddleEast and North Africa. Welcomed by John Jay College Provost and SeniorVice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Jane Bowers, and by outgoingAMSS President Dr. Ali Mazrui ‒ the conference’s one-day format ensuredan intensive and stimulating session, which captured the energy of the participantsand attendees that filled the symposium. While a four-panel conferencefeaturing only twelve presenters may appear small in comparison tosome academic meetings, AMSS again proved that quality eclipsed quantityin offering a diverse, yet deep analysis of contemporary issues ‒ ranging fromthe Arab Spring to domestic discourses highlighting and targeting Muslims.A panel entitled, “The Arab Spring: Paths to Democracy in the MiddleEast and North Africa,” opened the day’s proceedings by assessing the veryfluid and evolving situation in the heart of the Arab world. Khalid Madhi(Adjunct Professor at St. Xavier University and PhD Student Researchand Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago) focused onhow the transformative movements in Tunisia and Egypt would be felt inMorocco by offering a study of the country’s Islamist efforts. Umar Oseni(Visiting Fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at the Harvard LawSchool and Post-doctoral Scholar and Lecturer at the International IslamicUniversity Malaysia) shifted the discussion from a specific country to amore regional approach when he proposed a model for conflict managementthat is inherent within Islam itself. Finally, Mohamed Nimer (AssistantProfessor of International Relations at the School of International ...
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Mian, Ali Altaf. "The Fifth Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference." American Journal of Islam and Society 25, no. 3 (July 1, 2008): 152–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v25i3.1465.
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The annual Duke-University of North Carolina (UNC) Graduate IslamicStudies Conference for 2008, “Practice and Embodiment in Islam,” soughtto provide an interlocutory space for engaging the somewhat nascent turn tothe body. Held on 5-6 April 2008, this event focused on the theme of practiceand embodiment in Islamicate texts and contexts. Of late, the theorizationof the body has been a sustained topic of research in the humanities andthe social sciences.In his opening remarks, Omid Safi (UNC-Chapel Hill) highlighted thesignificance of inculcating a “culture of generosity,” since academic circlescan often generate feelings of estrangement. “The real challenge for us,” heemphasized, “is to step out of the comfort zones of our community.” Safithen introduced the keynote speaker: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University).Bashir’s tour de force of fourteenth-fifteenth century Persianate hagiographyrevealed how the body, as an analytic category and interpretive lens,enables quite sophisticated and unprecedented readings and insights intoSufi hagiographies of this period.After claiming that such texts describe theoutward appearance and movements of Sufi shaykhs’ bodies in great detail,he suggested the accompanying miracle stories were usually, if not always,invoked to preserve, heal, feed, or discipline the bodies of others, particularlythose on the Sufi path. Bashir said that a majority of the miracles thushad to do with corporeal integrity and continuity. While historians usuallysee the preponderance of such miracles in hagiographies as unhelpfulsources, Bashir argued that these texts constitute an argument for sainthoodand that careful analysis of the patterns found therein represent one of ourbest windows into classical Sufism’s socio-intellectual world ...
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Mahdi, Syed Iqbal. "Second Annual Economics Seminar." American Journal of Islam and Society 5, no. 2 (December 1, 1988): 317–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v5i2.2729.
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The Second Economics Seminar of the AMSS Economic DisciplineCouncil on Islamic Economics co-sponsored by the International Instituteof Islamic Thought (IIIT) and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists(AMSS) was held Rabi‘ al Akhir 8-10, 1409/November 18-20, 1988, at theIIIT headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. The program chairman for theconference was Dr. Mohammad Safa of Southeastern University, Washington,DC and the Seminar was attended by over fifty (50) people from variousparts of the United States and Canada including academicians, Islamic bankers,and graduate economics students.Following recitations from the Holy Qur’in, the opening sessioncommenced with the welcome addresses of Dr. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani,President, and Dr. AbdulHamid AbuSulayman, Director-General of the ID”,respectively. Dr. Taha emphasized the importance of the implementation ofIslamization of Knowledge in modem social sciences particularly in economics,and the role of IIIT in this process. Dr. Taha also paid tribute to the servicesof Dr. AbuSulayman in building Islamic institutions like the AMSS and theIIIT in their formative years. He prayed for the success of Dr. ’AbuSulaymanin his new assignment as the Rector of the International Islamic Universityin Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Dr. AbuSulayman then outlined the challenges lying ahead for Muslimeconomists in their efforts to Islamize the science of economics.Conference Program and Papers:The conference program was divided into four sessions. The first sessionwas on “Methodological Issues in Islamic Economics” chaired by Dr. RasoolM. Hashimi of Southern Illinois University. Drs. Syed Iqbal Mahdi of BenedictCollege and Masudul Alam Choudhury of University College of Cape Bretonpresented papers entitled “Methodological Issues in Islamic Economics” and“Cost-Benefit Framework in an Islamic Economic System” respectively. Thelast paper in this session was given by Shamim Siddiqui who is a doctoralcandidate at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The title ofhis paper was “Savings and Investment in an Islamic Economic System.” ...
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Akram, Ejaz. "International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations." American Journal of Islam and Society 17, no. 3 (October 1, 2000): 135–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v17i3.2057.
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The International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations was held in theheart of London, at the Islamic Centre of England in Maide Vale, October27-28. A group of eminent scholars from several countries convened toparticipate and present their points of view on this quite important and popularsubject: Dialogue of Civilizations!The conference was hosted by the Institute of Islamic Studies of London(11s) and sponsored by Shahid Beheshti University (Iran), AllameTabataba’ee University (Iran), the Institute for Political and InternationalStudies (Iran) and the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (UnitedKingdom). Several participants attended from local colleges and universitiesin and around London. Journalists from different organizations coveredthe event for newspaper and television. The two-day program, whichincluded panel sessions, a play and a music section, was video-recordedand documented. Overall, the conference can certainly be regarded as asuccessful one, although, as in many other fora, there was room forimprovement in few of its parts.Implicit in the title of the project is a rather grand albeit a noble ambition:the reconciliation of civilizations that are on a colision course. In pursuingthis lofty goal, participants came face-to-face with the difficulty of definingthe concept of ‘civilization’ across civilizations. Perhaps it was this difficultythat contributed to the meeting’s success, and helped participants discoverhow definitional problems can be overcome and how, indeed, understandingbetween conflicting entities can be achieved.Most papers in the first panel, titled “Globalization,” started with a ratherrosy picture for possibilities of a dialogue. The second panel reversed thetone, while presenting several definitions of civilization, it questionedwhether ‘modem civilization’ can be called a civilization at all. Some presentationstied the definition of civilization to its primordial religious tradition,thus disqualifying modem civilization as a civilization and characterizingit as anti-civilization. The third panel used Cultural Studies and ...
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Haron, Muhammed. "International Seminar on Islamic Thought." American Journal of Islam and Society 22, no. 2 (April 1, 2005): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v22i2.1723.
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“Islamic thought” has received a great deal of attention since the 9/11tragedy and the American-led invasion of Iraq. As a result, the conferenceorganizers considered it timely to invite selected individuals to discussthis topic at the International Seminar on Islamic Thought, which washeld at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) on 7-9 December2004.The conference attracted a sizeable number of participants from withinthe Association of Southeast Asian Nations region and beyond. The largecontingent of presenters (100+) was placed on thematic panels designed tocover the following topics: ethics, psychology, education, the environmentand technology, theology, philosophy, the Shari`ah, gender, social development,economics, civilization, and Qur’anic studies. The organizers dividedthe panels into specific time-slots. The languages of presentation wereBahasa Melayu, English, and Arabic.Given the large number of presenters, it is difficult to highlight allaspects of this conference. Therefore, interested readers are advised to gethold of the CD that contains all of the papers that were presented or sent forinclusion. These papers were edited by Ahmad S. Long, Jaffary Awang, andKamaruddin Salleh, and the digital publication was titled Islam: Past,Present, and Future.Prior to the seminar, the organizers invited Minister of HigherEducation Dato Shafi’ to give his input and support. This was then followedby contributions from the dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, which isan integral part of UKM, and two of the organizers. The seminar was officiallyopened with an important public forum on “Islam and Globalization,”chaired by Abu Bakr Ibrahim, who is a member of the Department of Usulud-Din (UKM). This forum was addressed by the two keynote speakers:Irfan Abdul-Hamid Fattah, who hails from Iraq and is attached to theInternational Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), and Azizan Baharuddin,director of the Centre for Civilizational Dialogue at the Universityof Malaya (UM).Fattah argued for replacing globalization with universalism, which heconsidered to be more suitable because the latter term is not beset withproblems and has no negative connotations. Azizan addressed the issues ofscience and technology, as well as economics in relation to globalization ...
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Crow, Karim D. "12th International Conference on Islamic Studies ( Surabaya , Indonesia , 5 - 7 December 2012 )." Islam and Civilisational Renewal 4, no. 2 (April 2013): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.12816/0009753.
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Siddiqui, Dilnawaz. "The 20th Annual Conference of the AMSS." American Journal of Islam and Society 9, no. 1 (April 1, 1992): 126–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v9i1.2598.
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The third decade of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists' (AMSS)existence witnessed the collective effort by some of its members to identify majorareas for inclusion in its research agenda. Besides taking stock of past performance,the main determinants included those recent events in the ummah whichhave affected it as a whole and the ensuing problems calling for immediateattention.Following established tradition, the AMSS and one of its sister professionalorganizations, the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE),convened their conferences at the same time and place.This year's banquet speaker was H.R.H. Crown Prince Hasan bin Talalof Jordan, whose address was delivered in his absence by Mohammad A.Hamadan, former Minister of Education of Jordan. The main thrust of PrinceHasan's address was the need for cooperation among the ummah's varioussegments in the service of professional and human resource development. TheIsma'il and Lamya al Fariiqi Memorial Lecture was given by Zafar I. Ansari,Director General, Islamic Research Center, Islamabad, Pakistan. The AMSEkeynote speaker was Ali Nayfeh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,Blacksburg, VA. Nayfeh suggested practical ways of fostering scientificand technological advancement in the ummah through intra-ummah as well asinternational collaboration.The main program consisted of seventeen thematic panels organized intoeleven sessions. The opening session was chaired by Sayyid M. Syeed, GeneralSecretary of the AMSS. It consisted of the welcome speeches of S. ImtiazAhmad, Conference Chair and President of the Islamic Society of NorthAmerica (ISNA); Sulayman Nyang, President of the AMSS; and MohammadZohdy, President of the AMSE. The Convention Chair also read out the felicitousmessages received from the White House, the State House, and the localgovernment. The program preview was given by its co-chairs, Mumtaz Ahmadand Dilnawaz Siddiqui (AMSS), and Sayed A. Nassar (AMSE).The second session had two concurrent panels: 1) "History of Muslim Communitiesin North America;' organized and moderated by Salahuddin Malik,State University of New York (SUNY ) at Brockport, Brockport, NY, and 2)'J\ndragogy: Education of Adults;' which was chaired by Mushtaqur Rahman,University oflowa at Ames, Ames, IA. The history panel featured Anwar Dil,U.S. International University, San Diego, CA, who traced the history of Muslim ...
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Farhoumand-Sims, Cheshmak. "International Conference on “The Making of the Islamic Diaspora”." American Journal of Islam and Society 21, no. 4 (October 1, 2004): 146–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v21i4.1766.
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On 7-9 May 2004, the SSHRC-funded, York University-based MCRI projecton Diaspora, Islam, and Gender project held an international conferenceon “The Making of the Islamic Diaspora.” Under the directorship ofHaideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, and Mark Goodman, the event was heldin Toronto and was cosponsored by the Ford Foundation EducationalProject for Palestinians, the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and ProfessionalStudies, the York Centre for Refugee Studies, and the York Centre forFeminist Research. The conference brought together an impressive collectionof scholars from around the world to share knowledge and insight intothe challenges that face diaspora communities of emigrants, refugees, andexiles who originate from Islamic cultures, with a specific focus on the genderdimension of displacement.In addition to the invited guests and speakers, the conference wasattended by approximately 50 academics, graduate students, and the publicat large. The conference’s guest of honor was the Honorable Zahira Kamal,Minister of Women’s Affairs for the Palestinian National Authority, whoparticipated in the conference and presented a keynote address at a dinnerreception in her honor.The conference’s panels discussed themes related to identity formation,gender in diaspora, fundamentalism and human rights, the diasporaexperience, and the media and representation. Nergis Canefe, for example,spoke about issues of religious identity and national belonging andnoted that diasporas offer a site of new membership that is different thanmigrants and represent the flourishing of hybrid identities. She describedthe “common immigrant story,” where such socioeconomic barriers asracism, stereotyping, media representation, and difficulty in recertificationmake it extremely difficult to have a smooth life transition in a newcountry ...
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Nyang, Sulayman S. "The First Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (UK)." American Journal of Islam and Society 17, no. 1 (April 1, 2000): 125–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v17i1.2084.
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The first annual conference of the Association of Muslim SocialScientists of the United Kingdom took place on October 30-31, 1999, at theLondon School of Economics and Political Science in London, England.The attendees came from various British and continental European universities.There were also a few participants from outside the European continent.This conference was a follow-up to the December 1996 seminar at theOxford Academy for Advanced Studies that led to the creation of theAMSS(UK) for the specific purpose of promoting Islamic perspectives invarious academic disciplines. According to the conference program, theplanners of the conference chose an "open theme," inviting presenters towrite on topics in their own field of expertise. Because of this open invitationto the participants, papers on philosophy, sociology, political science,economics, law, education, religious studies, literature, art, media, andecology were presented at the conference.On the opening day, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham ( one of four Muslims sittingin the House of Lords) delivered the keynote address. He encouragedthe Muslim scholars to study the Muslim experience in the British Isles andto contribute to the better understanding of the Muslim minority in Britishsociety. He underscored the persistence of racism and anti-Islamic sentimentsin the country and urged his fellow believers to keep the faith and tomaintain their vigilance against the detractors of Islam in the West. Heargued for greater Muslim involvement in the political process in Britishsociety and urged the younger generation to do everything within theirpower to assert their rights as citizens and to maintain their Islamic identity.Professor Sulayman S. Nyang, a former President of the Association ofMuslim Social Scientists of the United States and Canada, addressed themeeting after Lord Ahmed's keynote address. Invited purposely to share theexperiences of the American AMSS with members of the British AMSS, ...
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Rizvi, Muneeza. "Muslim Scholars, Islamic Studies, and the Gendered Academy." American Journal of Islam and Society 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 131–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i1.824.
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) hosted its fourth annualIsmail Al Faruqi Memorial Lecture at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The presentation took place at theHynes Convention Center in Boston on Sunday, November 19, 2017. Dr.Kecia Ali (Boston University, Department of Religion) delivered the keynotelecture, titled “Muslim Scholars, Islamic Studies, and the GenderedAcademy.” In her speech, Dr. Ali situated ongoing and gendered contestationsin Islamic Studies within a number of broader contexts: the historyof the AAR (currently the largest American organization dedicated to thestudy of religion), contemporary crises in higher education, and our shiftingnational climate ...
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Rahman, Mushtaqur. "Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists." American Journal of Islam and Society 5, no. 2 (December 1, 1988): 313–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v5i2.2728.
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The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim SocialScientists was held Rubi‘ul Awwal 18-20, 1409/October 28-30, 1988, at IowaState University, Ames, Iowa. “Development of Contemporary IslamicThought: Theory and Application” was the theme that attracted over 120participants from United States, Canada, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco,Trinidad and India, as well as numerous student “drop-ins”.The conference broke new grounds and topped all former annualconferences, in the size of meetings, quality, and diversity of presentations,and set a number of records that may stand for many years to come. Mostof the discussions were scholarly and conducted in a spirit of good humoroftendisagreeing without being disagreeable.The program included 26 papers, in addition to special sessions. Althoughthe sessions were spread over three days, as many as 16 sessions had to beheld concurrently to accommodate the participants. Topical divisions ofconcurrent sessions were successful at holding "session-hopping“ to a minimum.The array of papers covered almost all subdisciplines and current researchorientation in Islamic social sciences. Abstracts of the papers given in theprogram were helpful in planning and choosing which session to attend. Afterthe sessions, there was an array of opportunities to widen one’s experience.The banquet, and the dinners and lunches at Iowa State University MemorialUnion allowed for a relaxed, yet stimulating, setting. Those who preferredmore tension in their leisure, continued their discussions in small groups.For the first time, the conference began with a session on “Western andMuslim Women” chaired by Salahuddin Malik of the State University of NewYork, Brockport. Sharifa Alkhateeb of the International Institute of IslamicThought surveyed “Feminist Issues and Their Implication for Islamic Women,”explaining how Western feminist values were incapable of successfultransplantation to Muslim Societies. She pointed out the existing numerousvalues in Islam while recognizing the need for social change of traditionalnon-Islamically based mores. Vanessa Khadija Payton, of Morgan StateUniversity, discussed “Polygamy and American Muslims.” Her paper focusedon the cultural indoctrination of American male and female Muslims andthe practicality of polygamy amongst these groups. Sadekka Arabi of theUniversity of California, Berkeley, presented her wellreseamhed paper Western ...
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Elsanousi, Mohamed. "Theology, International Law, and Torture." American Journal of Islam and Society 23, no. 2 (April 1, 2006): 142–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v23i2.1638.
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In the post-9/11 environment, the American Muslim community has finallyrealized that it can no longer keep the rest of American society at arm’s lengthwhile seeking to establish its own infrastructure and ensuring its continuity asa distinct community. One example of this community’s increased participationin American civil society is its new-found interest in interfaith dialogue.With such reasoning in mind, the Muslim community has partnered with variousfaith communities to create the National Religious Campaign againstTorture (NRCAT), which was launched during the “Theology, InternationalLaw, and Torture: A Conference on Human Rights and Religious Commitment”conference sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary, 13-15 January2006, in Princeton, New Jersey.Religious leaders from across the nation, as well as Mohamed Elsanousi(director, Communication and Community Outreach, Islamic Society ofNorth America [ISNA]) Mohammed Shafiq (executive director, Center forInterfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College, and imam, IslamicCenter of Rochester); and Azhar Azeez (member, ISNA Executive Council and director, Islamic Association of Carrollton) as representatives of ISNA,worked together at this conference to build a powerful, spiritually basedcoalition. Over 160 eminent religious and academic figures, authors, journalists,retired government and military officers, human rights activists, andlawyers spoke ...
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Akram, Ejaz. "Eighteenth Annual Conference of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS)." American Journal of Islam and Society 18, no. 3 (July 1, 2001): 137–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v18i3.2013.
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The American Cowicil for the study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS) held its18th Annual Conference April 27-28, 2001 at Villanova University,Pennsylvania. ACSIS was established in 1983 to bring together scholarsengaged in the study of Islamic Societies and states around the world fromreligious, cultural, economic and political perspectives. ACSIS also has astrong focus on Pakistan Studies. The program director, Dr. Hafeez Malikmust be congratulated for consistency with which ACSIS continues to meetand produce its publication The Journal of South Asian and Middle EasternStudies.In a small symposium with a total of seven panels and some 20 speakers(except the absentees), panel areas covered ranged from Turkey and theWest to Muslims in Tibet and China, while the subjects were as diverse asforeign policy, media studies and pluralism.The first panel began with the discussion of Turkey's role in the EuropeanUnion (EU). Augusta State University's Michael Bishku's presented"Destination European Union? The Politics and Economics of Turkey'sCase for Admission" The paper put the conference to a good start becausethe following two papers by James Sowerwine and John Vander Lippedealt with topic directly related to Turkey's admission into EuropeanUnion. Respectively, these papers were "The Role of Turkey in EuropeanSecurity" and "Turkish-American Relations".Bishku pointed out at the unevenness and asymmetrical relationship thatcharacterized the Turkey-EU relations. EU's integration itself is notentirely a democratic exercise but a product of European search forenduring security, a quasi-Utopian dream of European integrationideologues and a generation of technocratic elite who want Europe unified.Similarly, the earlier Turkish elite wanted to enter EU for the reasons ofchanging identity, economic or civilizational, whereas the society at thattime was still traditional and felt a deeper bond with the Muslim world thansecular Europe. However, the current Turkish drive for membership in EUcomes surprisingly not from the secular elite but the very Islamic sectors ofsociety; while the elite wants to hold on to the Kemalist power apparatus,the society wants to democratize and join the EU, because by doing so, thestate will no longer be able to pursue its Machiavellian tactics on itscitizens, as it would have to abide by, in substance, to the Human Rights ...
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Pervez, Saulat. "The International Institute of Islamic Thought Intellectual Panels." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 157–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i3.933.
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels atthe 41st annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) inBaltimore, MD, on Sunday, May 29, 2016.The first panel, “Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah as a Philosophy of Islamic Law,”featured Jasser Auda (Al-Shatibi Chair of Maqasid Studies, the InternationalPeace College, South Africa) and Ebrahim Rasool (Distinguished Scholar inResidence at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School for ForeignService and former ambassador of South Africa to the U.S.), with ErminSinanović (director, Research and Academic Programs, IIIT) as moderator.Sinanović began by introducing IIIT to the diverse audience. He explainedthat the institute is devoted to the revival of Islamic traditions and the reformof Muslim societies. In addition to affirming that our sources and principlesare unchangeable, he positioned IIIT as the institution dedicated to making our intellectual legacy the core of the solution to our current malaise, for it is the“answer to the crisis of the ummah,” a crisis that is largely intellectual in nature:our inability to translate our eternal message as per our time and space ...
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Mutalib, Hussain. "Second Annual Conference of the “ASEAN Muslim Social Scientists’ Forum”." American Journal of Islam and Society 5, no. 2 (December 1, 1988): 305–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v5i2.2725.
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The Muslim Social Science Scholars’ Forum of ASEAN (Associationof Southeast Asian Nations) held its Second Meeting in Bangkok, Thailandfrom Mubrram 20-23, 1409lSeptember 1-4, 1988, under the auspices of theFoundation for Democracy and Development Studies. The theme for themeeting was “Muslim Scholars and Social Science Research,” aimed atdocumenting, discussing and analyzing the types of scholarship or researchthat have been done about Muslims in the Southeast Asian region, particularlywithin the ASEAN countries.A select group of Muslim social science scholars (together with someMuslim politicians) from the countries within ASEAN, except Brunei, wereinvited to the “Forum.” They included: Drs. Dawan Raharjo and NurcholisMajid, and Professor Moeslim (Indonesia), Drs. Surin Pitsuwan, SeneeMadmarn and Chaiwat (Thailand), Drs. Yusof Talib and Hussain Mutalib(Singapore), Professors Taib Osman and Wan Hashim and Umar Farouq(Malaysia), and Drs. Carmen Abubakar, Madale and Mastura (Philippines).All participants were either presenters of papers or discussants.Throughout the four-day deliberations, participants discussed the typesof studies and research that have been the focus of scholars studying Muslimcommunities in the ASEAN region. Some titles of papers included: “MuslimStudies in the Phillipines;” “Social Science Research in Thailand;” and “SocialScience Research in Malaysia: the Case of Islamic Resurgence.”Given the “closed-door” ‘nature of the meeting (participation was byinvitation only), there was adequate time for a more intensive, frank andthorough discussions of the papers. Problems and issues were aired and posed,and alternative options offered by participants. For every paper, there wasa discussant; hence, the issues that came out of the papers managed to beseen, discussed and appreciated from a more complete and balancedperspective.By and large, the Bangkok meeting was a successful one. Theapproximately twenty participants were generally pleased with the high qualityof papers presented and the sense of brotherhood that prevailed. The warmhospitality of the hosts from Thailand was also appreciated ...
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Kalin, Ibrahim. "God, Life and Cosmos." American Journal of Islam and Society 17, no. 3 (October 1, 2000): 138–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v17i3.2058.
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The international Islamabad conference titled God, Life and Cosmos:Theistic Perspectives was held in Islamabad, November 6-9, 2000.Sponsored and organized by the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences(CTNS), Berkeley, United States, Islamic Research Institute (IRI),Islamabad, Pakistan, and International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT),Islamabad, Pakistan, the conference drew over fifty scholars from the fieldsof natural sciences and religious studies. A number of interesting paperswere presented on various aspects of the relation between religion and science,and each paper was critically evaluated and responded to by a respondent.The conference commenced with the introductory remarks of MuzaffarIqbal (National Library, Alberta, Canada) and then the keynote speechwhich was delivered by William Chittick, the renowned scholar of Islamicintellectual history and Ibn Arabi. Chittick’s keynote address titled“Modem Science and the Eclipse of Tawhid” focused on the sharp contrastbetween the Islamic concept of tuwhid (Divine unity) and the secularworldview of modem science. Drawing on the traditional distinctionbetween the transmitted (naqli) and intellectual (uqli) sciences, Chittickemphasized the importance of intellectual sciences in confronting the challengesof the modem world. As respondent to Chittick‘s keynote paper,Hasan al-Shafi’i (President of the International Islamic University,Islamabad, Pakistan) further elaborated on the points raised by the keynotespeaker. The f i t day of the conference closed with a wonderful presentationabout Pakistan and its history by the son and daughter of MuzaffarIqbal, the indefitagiable convener of the conference.The papers presented at the conference touched upon nearly all of themajor aspects of the religion-science relationship: the rise of modem physicalsciences and the responses of the Islamic as well as Christian worlds,philosophy of science, modem cosmology, theory of evolution and itsmeaning for the religious worldview, history of Islamic sciences and its ...
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Kayadibi, Saim. "Exploring Challenges and Prospects in the 21st Century." American Journal of Islam and Society 26, no. 3 (July 1, 2009): 150–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v26i3.1388.
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The International Conference on Research in Islamic Laws 2009 (ICRIL‘09)was held on 15-16 July 2009 at the University of Malaya’s (UM) Departmentof Shari`ah and Law. The 145 presenters focused on the contemporary challengesand prospects in Islamic studies. Zubaidah Ismail (director, ICRIL‘09)welcomed the audience and spoke of the importance of Islamic laws; IbrahimLembut (director general and chief Shari`ah judge of Malaysia) gave anopening address, and Ahmad Hidayat Buang (director, the Academy ofIslamic Studies) declared the event officially opened on behalf of Ghauth Jasmon(vice chancellor, UM) ...
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Kraeutler, Matthew J., John B. Schrock, and Eric C. McCarty. "Conference Presentation Characteristics of Studies Published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine." American Journal of Sports Medicine 44, no. 7 (April 11, 2016): 1852–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363546516639923.
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Background: Previous studies have determined the percentage of studies presented at national orthopaedic surgery meetings that are eventually published in peer-reviewed journals. Purpose: To determine the proportion of articles in The American Journal of Sports Medicine ( AJSM) that are presented at national or international meetings. Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Methods: The AJSM archive of 2014 online issues was searched. All original research articles were searched for corresponding presentations as listed at the beginning of the manuscript. An email was sent to the corresponding author of all articles, including those with a presentation listed. Corresponding authors were asked if the published study was presented at a national or international meeting and, if so, at which meeting and year the study was presented. If the study was not presented at a national meeting, the corresponding author was asked why this was the case. Results: A total of 315 articles met the inclusion criteria. Presentation information was obtained for 264 of these articles (84%). Of these 264 studies, 218 (83%) were presented at national or international conferences. A total of 341 presentations were listed, including 144 (42%) at international conferences. The average time from first presentation to publication was 12.9 months. Seventy-two studies (72/218, 33%) were presented at more than 1 meeting. Of those studies presented at more than 1 meeting, the average number of presentations was 2.7 (range, 2-6). The most common conferences at which AJSM-published studies were presented were the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Annual Meeting (n = 56) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting (n = 43). Seven authors stated that their published studies were not presented because the study was not accepted for presentation at a national meeting. Conclusion: A high proportion of studies accepted for publication in AJSM are presented at national and international meetings. AOSSM and AAOS Annual Meetings are the most common conferences at which these studies are presented, although international conferences account for a substantial proportion of AJSM-published study presentations.
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Комина, Наталья, and Natalya Komina. "From Communication Theory to Innovative Education." Scientific Research and Development. Modern Communication Studies 7, no. 3 (June 13, 2018): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5b2125cfcb6b34.94263139.
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The review of conference presentations at the annual international scientific conference “Language Discourse in Social Practice” provides an insight into the progress of communication and discourse studies.
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Kauffman, S. Blair. "Opening Remarks." International Journal of Legal Information 31, no. 2 (2003): 163–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0731126500010532.
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The papers in this issue were presented at the IALL's 21st Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, held at Yale Law School, October 20 through October 23, 2002. The program featured several of America's great scholars in international law and drew on the rich resources of Yale University and its environs. It also introduced participants to the history of legal education in America and included excursions to America's first national law school, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and to the United Nations headquarters, in New York City. A pre-conference reception was held at the nearby Quinnipiac University School of Law Library, on Sunday afternoon, October 20th, in Hamden, Connecticut, and a post-conference institute on Islamic Law, was held on October 24th, at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Khan, Sa'ad S. "The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and Muslim Minorities." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 22, no. 2 (October 2002): 351–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360200022000027311.
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Siddiqui, Mohammad A. "The Muslims of America Conference." American Journal of Islam and Society 5, no. 2 (December 1, 1988): 319–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v5i2.2730.
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Organized By:The Arabic Club, the Department of History and The Near Eastern Studies Program, Universityof Massachusetts at AmherstIn the heart of seminaries and orientalist America, a conference on “TheMuslims of America” was held on April 15 and 16, 1988 at the Universityof Massachusetts at Amherst. The purpose of the conference, according toits director, Professor Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, “was to expand the scopeof scholarly investigation about the Muslim community in the United States.”The conference focused “on the manner in which Muslims in America adapttheir institutions as they become increasingly an indigenous part of America.”Twenty-seven speakers, including sixteen Muslim scholars, addressed a varietyof topics dealing with the development and experience of the American Muslimcommunity. Among the more than 150 participants were representatives fromthe International Institute of Islamic Thought, the Islamic Society of NorthAmerica, the Muslim World League, the American Islamic College, theAssociation of Muslim Social Scientists, and various academic institutionsand local Muslim communities from the United States and Canada.The conference started on Friday, April 15, with a welcome speech byMurray Schwartz, Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts, University ofMassachusetts at Amherst. Chaired by Roland Sarti, Chairman, Departmentof History at the University of Massachusetts, the first session focused onthe demographics of the Muslims of America. Carol L. Stone of IndianaUniversity presented her paper on the Census of Muslims Living in America.Carol presented statistics of various Muslim communities and explained thedifficulties in collecting such data. She estimated the number of Muslimsin America to be 4.7 million in 1986, a 24 percent increase over the 1980estimates and projected that by the year 2000 this figure is likely to be doubled.Qutbi Ahmed of McGill University and former President of the Islamic Societyof North America, discussed the nature, role and scope of various organizationsin his paper on Islamic Organizations in North America. Abdul Aziz Sachedinaof the University of Virginia presented his paper on A Minority Within aMinority: The Case Study of the Shi'a in North America. He focussed onthe migration of the various Shi’i groups and their adjustment in the Americanenvironment. Sulayman Nyang of Howard University was the last speakerof the first session. The title of his paper was Conversion and Diversion ...
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Irani, Akbar. "Textual Studies in Iran: A Report." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 41, no. 2 (2007): 152–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026318400050525.
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Translator’s note: The Written Heritage Research and Publication Center (WHRPC) was established in January 1995 under the auspices of the Office of the Deputy Minister for Cultural Activities at the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance in Iran. It was given the task of researching and publishing important texts of Iranian and Islamic civilizations. The Center concentrates on the editing of texts that have not yet been published, those whose existing editions may be improved by more attentive editorial efforts, and Persian and Arabic works for which better manuscripts have been discovered since the preparation of their original editions. The center’s areas of concentration are: Persian and Arabic literatures, History, Geography, Islamic Sciences, and the Tranoxianian Heritage. Since 2004 this center has increased its cooperation with international organizations that share its goals and interests. More about this institution may be found at its website at: http://www.mirasmaktoob.ir. What follows is a brief description of the activities of the WHRPC in the fields of textual studies and codicology, as presented by Dr. Akbar Irani, the director of WHRPC, in a lecture that he delivered in August of 2007 in the third conference of the Society of Islamic Manuscripts in Cambridge, England. I have taken few liberties with the text in order to transform the narrative from a talk to a report.
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Altalib, Omar. "The International Conference on Islam and Development in Southeast Asia." American Journal of Islam and Society 8, no. 3 (December 1, 1991): 569–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v8i3.2617.
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The International Conference on Islam and Development in SoutheastAsia was held during September 25-26, 1991, at the Equatorial Hotel, KualaLumpur, Malaysia. The conference was jointly organized by the Academyof Malay Studies (University of Malaya), the Islamic Academy (Universityof Malaya), and the Information and Resource Center (Singapore) and wassponsored by the Hanns-Seidel Foundation. The conference's stated aim wasto demonstrate the differences in programs for cooperation between Islamiccountries, the integration attempts of developing countries, and the actualeconomic and political situations of Southeast Asian countries.There were four main panels in the program: a) Islam and Developmentin Southeast Asia: A Historical Perspective; b) Islam and the Political Process;c) Islam and Economic Development; and 4) Islam and the Future of theRegion.In the first panel, Khoo Kay Kim (professor of Malaysian history,University of Malaya) pointed out that Muslims have historically emphasizededucation, while in modern times they have tended to allow education tobe shaped by outside rather than inside influences. In addition, Muslimeducation in Southeast Asia has lagged behind national development. Atpresent, the education system in Malaysia continues to produce students who ...
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Abdullah, Omer Bin. "The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists." American Journal of Islam and Society 7, no. 1 (March 1, 1990): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v7i1.2672.
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The Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists(AMSS) has acquired a certain niche for itself in the academic life of Muslimsin North America. Each year the Conference is attended by Muslim andseveral non-Muslim scholars from across North America and overseas.The 18th Annual Conference was held in conjunction with the 15th AnnualConference of the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE).This provided an opportunity for exchange of ideas among specialists fromvarious disciplines. It was coordinated by the AMSS Vice President Dr.Salahuddin Malik. In all, some forty papers on Islam and Muslims werepresented followed by interesting discussions.Dr. Taha J. Al- 'Alwani, President of the International Institute of IslamicThought (IIIT) was the keynote speaker at the Banquet. The Isma'il and Lamya'al Fariiqi Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr. Ralph Braibanti of DukeUniversity. One highlight of the Conference was the well-attended InterfaithTrialogue which was addressed by Dr. James Evans of Colgate Divinity School,Dr. Tamara Sann of St. John Fisher College, Rabbi Judea Miller of Rochester,NY, and Dr. Jamal Badawi of Halifax University, Nova Scotia, Canada.The Conference, which was spread over twelve sessions, included eighteenpanels on a variety of subjects.The First Session comprised two panels: Business and Economics inIslam where Dr. Ausaf Ali reflected on the "Systemized Theory of the IslamicEconomy." Dr. M. E. Biraima's paper, which was presented in his absence,discussed "A Qur'anic Model For a Universal Economic Theory." Dr. HishamAhmad of the University of Chicago spoke about the "Qur'anic Perspectiveon the Creation and Distribution of Wealth and Economic Justice," whileMohamed R. Bouz.akuk of the University of Oklahoma spoke on "lbn Khaldun:The Economist."The parallel panel on Language and Education featured Dr. M. A. WaheedFakhri of Chicago State University who introduced the 1989 survey of fulltimeIslamic Schools in North America. Dr. Ni'mat H. Barazangi of Cornellspoke on "North American Parents and Children: Theoretical Model forIslamization of Education," and Dr. Kamal Nimer of the Islamic Saudi Academyfocused on adult education ...
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Khan, Sameen Ahmed. "The First International Conference on Arabs’ and Muslims’ History of Sciences." American Journal of Islam and Society 25, no. 3 (July 1, 2008): 158–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v25i3.1467.
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The College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Sharjah, UnitedArabEmirates, organized a four-day landmark event, The First International Conferenceon Arabs’ and Muslims’ History of Sciences, during 24-27 March2008. Entitled “Arabs’ and Muslims’ Scientific Contributions to Humanity,”it was held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan binMohammed al-Qasimi (member of the Supreme Council, ruler of Sharjah,and supreme president of the University of Sharjah) in collaborationwith theuniversity’s College of the Shari`ah and Islamic Studies and theArab UnionofAstronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS). The conference sought to highlightthe testimonies of non-Muslim scholars concerning Arab and Muslimscholars’ scientific accomplishments and to emphasize their contributions tomedicine, astronomy, architecture, and agriculture. Over 300 participantsfrom 200 scientific and research institutions in 35 countries attended, andabout 250 research papers, which will be available on the university’s website(https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/), were presented.The conference created an intellectual platform to enhance communicationamong scientists and researchers studying the history of the various ...
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Bakar, Yusrina Abu. "2011 IALL Conference Report: The 30th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information; Dynamics of Malaysian Law in the Global World†." International Journal of Legal Information 40, no. 1-2 (2012): 157–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0731126500006430.
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Back in January 2008 I was asked by the Chief Librarian of the International Islamic University Malaysia Library (IIUM Library) to head the Law Information Section of the Library. Up to that year, which was my twelfth year as a librarian, law had been one of the subjects that I had avoided learning. I knew the complexity and specialization of the subjects and its multitude of collections. I felt that if I did not use the subject on a regular basis, I would easily forget what I learned. Even though skeptical of my own ability to head the department, I took the job to challenge myself, to learn more about the subject and above all to prove to myself how wrong I was about the subject.
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Mahdi, Syed Iqbal. "Islamic Economics and the Economy of Indian Muslims." American Journal of Islam and Society 6, no. 2 (December 1, 1989): 358–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v6i2.2687.
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The International Seminar on Islamic Economics and the Economy ofIndian Muslims was held July 21-24, 1989 in the Convention Center of HamdardUniversity, New Delhi, India, under the auspices of the Institute ofObjective Studies (IOS). The Seminar was the first of its kind in India. Therewere 10 sessions, with over 60 participants, on various aspects of IslamicEconomics as well as on the economy of Indian Muslims. In addition therewere inaugural and plenary sessions, and a public lecture. All the sessionswere well-attended. Conference delegates and participants came from all overIndia, as well as Egypt and the U.S. A number of scholars from other countriescould not attend the Conference because of the denial of visa for attendingthe Conference by the Indian Embassies in their respective countries.The Conference convened on Friday, July 21, 1989 at 1190 A.M. withthe inaugural session chaired by Dr. S. Z. Qasim, Vice-Chancellor of JamiaMillia Islamia, New Delhi. After the welcome speech by Mr. A. R. Agwan,Director of the IOS, Dr. Manzoor Alam, Chairman of the IOS, introducedthe 10s and its activities. The inaugural address was delivered by Dr. A.R. Kidwai, Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Following that,the keynote address was given by Dr. F. R. Faridi of AMU, who was alsothe convenor of this seminar.Among the foreign delegates were Dr. Shawki Ismail Shehata of FaisalIslamic Bank of Egypt, Prof. Syed Iqbal Mahdi (who is the Secretary ofthe AMSS Economics Discipline Group),and Dr. A. Q. J. Shaikh from theU.S.A., and Dr. M. Ayub Munir from Pakistan.The Conference organizers had carefully selected the topics which weretimely and relevant both in terms of Islamic economics and the economyof Indian Muslims. Each session had 4 to 5 papers. The following were someof the topics:1. Employment Situation of Indian Muslims: An Appraisal ofits Nature and Magnitude2. Islamic Banking: Theory and Practice3. An Islamic Approach to Economic Development ...
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Ehlers, V. J. "Report: 9th International Reflective Practice Conference: Mindful Inquiry: 23-25 June 2003: Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom." Health SA Gesondheid 8, no. 4 (November 5, 2003): 99–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v8i4.148.
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This annual conference is organised by the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University.
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Şimşek, Ayşegül. "Citizenship and Minorities in Contemporary Islam." American Journal of Islam and Society 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i1.823.
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) organized a panel,entitled “Citizenship and Minorities in Contemporary Islam” at the 2017American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting. The panel washeld at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston,Massachusetts on Sunday, November 19, 2017.The panel was presided by Dr. Ermin Sinanović, IIIT’s Director ofResearch and Academic Programs, and included the panelists Dr. OvamirAnjum, the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Departmentof Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Toledo; Dr.Mohammad Fadel, Associate Professor and Toronto Research Chair for theLaw and Economics of Islamic Law at the University of Toronto Faculty ofLaw; and Dr. Basma Abdelgafar, Vice President of Maqasid Institute andAssociate Professor of Public Policy ...
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Siehr, K. "Conference report. Resolution of Disputes in International Art Trade, Third Annual Conference of the Venice Court of National and International Arbitration: Venice, Italy (September 29-30, 2000)." International Journal of Cultural Property 10, no. 1 (January 2001): 122–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s094073910177124x.
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Coury, Ralph M. "EGYPTIANS IN JERUSALEM: THEIR ROLE IN THE GENERAL ISLAMIC CONFERENCE OF 1931." Muslim World 82, no. 1-2 (April 1992): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-1913.1992.tb03540.x.
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Swift, Hester, and Peter Clinch. "Opening up the UK's Foreign and International Law Collections: the FLARE Initiative, the FLAG Foreign Law Guide and the FLARE Index to Treaties." Legal Information Management 9, no. 4 (December 2009): 262–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1472669609990521.
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AbstractHester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and Peter Clinch, Senior Subject Librarian for Law, Cardiff University delivered this paper at the recent BIALL Annual Conference.
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Tepe, Sultan, and Betul Demirkaya. "(Not) Getting Religion: Has Political Science Lost Sight of Islam?" Politics and Religion 4, no. 2 (April 26, 2011): 203–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048311000198.
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AbstractIn this analysis, we expand the debate on the place of religion in political science by using the predictions of Wald and Wilcox as our starting point. Following in their footsteps, we ask how political scientists have studied Islam since 2002 and identify the studies on Islam and Muslims at the flagship conference of the discipline, the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. We evaluate not only the quantity but also the approaches employed by these studies. In order to gauge the balancing of roles (or lack thereof) between the discipline and area studies, we also take a closer look at the Middle East Studies Association, the largest association focused on the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world and its annual meetings during the same period. Our findings suggest that, unless carefully addressed, the prevailing patterns are likely to result in a crippling knowledge gap among political scientists.
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Mabbett, I. W. "The international East–West philosophy conference (third regional), in conjunction with the Australasian association of philosophy annual conference—9–12 July 1992." Asian Studies Review 16, no. 2 (November 1992): 204–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539208712856.
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ISNA, Convention Reporters Committee. "The Forty-second Annual ISNA Convention." American Journal of Islam and Society 22, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v22i4.1679.
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The theme of this year’s event, “Muslims in North America: Accomplishments,Challenges, and the Road Ahead,” was a public proclamation thatNorth American Muslims are focusing on the future. One highlight was thepresence of Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes,who met with heads of Muslim American organizations on the grounds thatshe needed their advice to help her reach out to the wider Muslim world.Overall, the convention focused on advancing values of the family, community,compassion, and justice; the workshops addressed communitybuilding, organizing politically, promoting civil rights, opposing Islamophobia,sharing Islam, and promoting interfaith understanding.The conference was inaugurated by the leaders of ISNA’s constituentorganizations and leaders of other faiths. Bob Edgar (secretary general,National Council of Churches), set the tone: “If you want to walk fast,walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together!” Muhammad NurAbdullah (president, ISNA) spoke of such ISNA accomplishments as theimam and chaplain training services and empowering Muslim youths. Theinaugural session was addressed by Khurshid A. Qureshi (president,AMSE) Rafik Beekun (president, AMSS), Rehana Kausar (president,IMANA), Mohammad Sheibani (president, MSA), and co-chairs OmarSiddiqi and Kulsoom Salman (both of MSA-National). Ingrid Mattson(vice president, ISNA; director, Islamic chaplaincy; and professor, Islamicstudies and Christian-Muslim relations, Hartford Seminary), Abdul-MalikMujahid (president, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago),Bob Edgar (secretary general, National Council of Churches), and RickUfford-Chase (chair of the moderator of the 216th General Assembly ofthe Presbyterian Church [USA]).The ISNA Dr. Mahboob Khan Community Service Award was presentedto Ilyas Ba-Yunus, a founding member of MSA who helped establishISNA and served as its first president. A respected sociologist, he is theauthor of several studies related to Muslim life in America. FormerMalaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, the keynote speaker at theCommunity Service Recognition luncheon, expressed his gratitude forISNA’s role in securing his release after the charges brought against him byformer prime minister Mahathir Muhammad failed the court test. In keepingwith a now 3-year-old tradition, Anwar received an award recognizing hiscontribution to democracy, civil society, and social justice ...
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Chater, Mark. "Belief, Values and Community: Sixth International Annual Conference on Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child[1]." International Journal of Children's Spirituality 4, no. 2 (December 1999): 233–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1364436990040212.
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Siwaju, Fatima. "Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies in Theological Seminaries." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 160–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i1.896.
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On Saturday, November 21, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., a panel coorganized by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) entitled “Opportunitiesand Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies in TheologicalSeminaries,” was held during the Annual Meeting of the American Academyof Religion (AAR) at the Marriott Hotel in Atlanta, GA. The panel was presidedover by Reverend Dr. Serene Jones (president of Union Theological Seminaryand AAR president-elect), and included contributions from Nazila Isgandarova(Emmanuel College), Munir Jiwa (Graduate Theological Union), JerushaLamptey (Union Theological Seminary), Nevin Reda (Emmanuel College),Feryal Salem (Hartford Seminary), and Ermin Sinanović (IIIT). Amir Hussain(Loyola Marymount University) served as respondent.The purpose of the roundtable was to address the growing trend amongChristian seminaries in North America of offering courses and, in some cases,professional degrees in the study of Islam, which has often involved hiringMuslim academics. The panelists endeavored to explore the opportunitiesand challenges posed by this new context, as well as the possible future directionof theological schools in addition to the future trajectory of Islamicstudies at them.Nazila Isgandarova, a spiritual care coordinator for the Center for Addictionand Mental Health in Canada and a graduate student at Emmanuel College,spoke of her personal experience as a Muslim student in a theological school.She noted that one of the unique advantages of studying Islam in a Christianenvironment is that it provides a space for the exchange of ideas. Isgandarovaidentified clinical pastoral education (CPE) as one of the major advantages ofstudying at a seminary. She emphasized that Islamic spiritual care educationshould be grounded not only in the Islamic tradition, but also in the conceptualand methodological frameworks provided by CPE. While she acknowledged ...
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Shahar, Nurul Ain, Anuar Nawawi, and Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin. "Shari’a corporate governance disclosure of Malaysian IFIS." Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research 11, no. 3 (January 2, 2020): 845–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jiabr-05-2016-0057.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the extent of the Shari’a corporate governance disclosure in the annual report of Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) in Malaysia to determine the significant differences in this disclosure between the local and foreign-owned IFIs, small and large size IFIs and IFIs belong to Islamic and conventional holding companies. Design/methodology/approach All 16 IFIs in Malaysia were selected to analyse the extent of disclosure in their annual reports on issues related to Shari’a corporate governance. For this purpose, an index of Shari’a corporate governance disclosure for IFIs was created based on adapting Sulaiman et al. (2015). The index consists of 127 items classified into 14 dimensions. The scoring of the disclosed items is binary, where a score of “1” if disclosed and “0” if it was not disclosed in the annual report. Findings The result shows no significant differences in the Shari’a corporate governance disclosure between the local and foreign-owned IFIs, small and large size IFIs and IFIs belonging to Islamic and conventional holding companies. However, further examination shows that there was a significant difference in the disclosure of the risk management committee dimension between the large and small IFIs and investment account holders dimension between the conventional and Islamic holding companies. Research limitations/implications The results provide new emerging evidence that deviates from many prior empirical research studies, which document the domination of Islamic-based IFIs in the corporate governance practices, as compared with their conventional financial institutions that venture into Islamic finance. This study, however, was conducted on only 16 IFIs in a one-year period, i.e. 2013. Future research should consider data from a larger number of IFIs that involve a number of countries with more than one year of data to have a better understanding of the extent of Shari’a corporate governance disclosure. Practical implications This study provides an indicator to the stakeholders of Islamic finance that the Islamic-based IFIs and conventional IFIs are equal and cannot be differentiated based on the Shari’a corporate governance disclosure. For Islamic-based IFIs, as a pioneer in Islamic banking and finance industry, they need to take more efforts in adopting the Shari’a governance framework issued by the Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM), namely, the Shari’a review, audit and risk management. Originality/value This study is original, as it includes the latest requirements by the Shari’a governance framework issued by the BNM, namely, the Shari’a review, audit, risk management and research functions in its research instrument. In addition, this research also scrutinised the disclosure in detail of all the dimensions constructed in the governance index.
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Home, Robert. "Conference report: Planning, Law and Property Rights The Third Annual Conference of the International Association of Planning, Law and Property Rights (PLPR), Aalborg, 2009." Town Planning Review 80, no. 1 (January 2009): 109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.80.1.6.
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Tomalin, Emma. "Introduction to the Third British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference edition ofContemporary South Asia." Contemporary South Asia 14, no. 4 (December 2005): 391–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09584930600839065.
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Maras, Steven. "ANZCA at 25: past presidents in conversation." Media International Australia 177, no. 1 (July 17, 2020): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x20941143.
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In 2019, the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) celebrated its 25th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, the organisers of the 2019 annual ANZCA conference in Canberra, Australia, convened a panel of past presidents involved in the transition of the Australian Communication Association (ACA), founded in 1980, into ANZCA. This article presents an edited transcript of that panel, with a pre-amble situating the panel in the context of current international research, with the dual purpose of marking an historical occasion, and also contributing to international research into the field.
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Kline, Karen, Russ Belk, and Steve Gold. "Conference report: Sixth annual meeting of the international visual sociology association visual studies workshop, July 15, 16, 17, 1988." Visual Sociology 3, no. 2 (September 1988): 4–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725868808583614.
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USA, IIIT. "Strategies for an Islamic Perspective of History and Historical Writing." American Journal of Islam and Society 7, no. 2 (September 1, 1990): 277–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v7i2.2799.
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The idea of holding the first History Seminar, which was introducedat the 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists(AMSS), came to realization in Buffalo, New York on Dhu al Qi‘dah 1-2,1410/May 26-27, 1990.A total of fifteen papers were presented by Muslim historians comingfrom across the United States. Taha J. Al-‘Alwani’s opening address waspresented by Sayyid Muhammad Syeed, the General Secretary of the AMSS.Al-‘Alwani, who is the President of the International Institute of IslamicThought (IIIT), challenged Muslim historians to devise concepts andmethodologies based on the wisdom of the Qur’an that will demystify humanglobal history and make it possible to present solutions and alternatives totoday’s problems. He asked historians to look for the unifying factors thatcan make sense out of human history and to think about mankind’s reactiveor proactive role in the historical process which might lead to universal goals.The banquet speaker, Professor Pareshan G. Khattak, Vice Chancellorof the Azad Kashmir University at Muzaffarabad, a historian himself, dedicatedhis address to an account of the Kashmiri Muslim struggle for freedom andits place in current history.The first session included two papers designed to present an overviewof issues to be considered at the conference. The seminar coordinator, AftabAhmad Khan of Buffalo State College, spoke on “Establishing Some Principlesand Guidelines for Islamization of History,” in which he focused on the needfor Muslim self-reliance in the writing and interpretation of their own historyas well as that of the rest of the world with the aim of exposing the worldunifyingconcepts and reflections of tawhid. He called for the adoption ofa five point program toward beginning the process of Islamization of history.This was followed by Professor Akbar Muhammad of SUNY at Binghamton,who presented a paper entitled “On Islamic History, Muslim History, andthe Social Milieu.”Focusing on the legacy of certain individual historians or thinkers, threepanelists presented the ideas of men spanning North Africa, the Middle East,and South Asia. Ausaf Ali of Los Angeles spoke on Ibn Khaldun, Ibrahim ...