scholarly journals God, Life and Cosmos

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-139
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Kalin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
National Library ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Modem World ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of

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 ...

scholarly journals Islamic Thought in the South Asian Subcontinent

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Zafar I. Ansari
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

The International Institute of Islamic Thought-Islamabad, the IslamicResearch Institute, and the International Islamic University, Islamabad,are conducting ongoing seminars on the history of Islamic thought ineighteenth-century South Asia. What follows is a report of some activitiesand decisions taken to date.Recent studies of Islamic thought have generally attributed the rise ofMuslim reform and revival movements, as well as the intellectual activitiesundertaken during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to theimpact of Europe and the influence of its academic, social, political, andtechnological advancement. This raises the following question: If theMuslim world had not come into contact with Europe, would it haveremained a totally unchanged and unchanging society? In order to answerthis question, it is essential to:1. Study and examine how Muslim thinkers analyzed their societyin the precolonial period2. Explore whether there was any dissatisfaction with the statusquo among Muslims;3. Detemine whether there were any trends of reform, revival,ijtihad or whether there was any significant interest in philosophyand rational sciences. Was there any interest in reinterpretingIslamic teachings in order to meet the challenges ofmodernity in general and of the western intellectual experiencein particular;4. Study whether the foundations of the political movements, religiousorganizations, and sects that arose in the subcontinent (i.e.,Ahl-i Hadith, Deobandi, and Barelawi) were laid on the emergentattitudes of opposition and resistance to British rule or whethertheir origins can be traced in the pre-British period; and5. Investigate principles and concepts (i.e., bid’ah, taqlid, ijtihad,dar al harb, jihad, and hijrah) used by Muslim thinkers for totalacceptance, rejection, or adaptation of political, social, and religiousideas and practices and of modern science and technology.How were these developed, refiied, restated, or reconsh-ucted? ...

scholarly journals PLOTKIN SEMEN YAKOVLEVICH (TO THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY)

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
S. S. Plotkin ◽  
A. V. Dorokhov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Hard Alloys ◽  
School Problems ◽  
Fine Chemical Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Union Committee ◽  
Journal History ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical

The article tells about life and fate of S.Ya. Plotkin, whose 110-th anniversary of birth was marked on March 2016. He was born in 1906 in Melitopole town (Ukraine). Having graduated at the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology in 1931, he was asked for administration works firstly as the director of the Institute and then as the member of the All-Union Committee for High School problems. During all his life S.Ya. Plotkin successfully combine administrative, scientific, pedagogical and journalistic activities. He was the expert in the problems of hard alloys and powder metallurgy, professor, editor in chief of the journal «History of Natural Sciences and Technique». He was the member of the Journalist’s Union of the USSR, Honorary member of the International Institute for the Sciences of Sintering and Honorary worker of Culture of Russian Federation.

Who Wrote What When: The Bible, Science and Criticism

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-315
Author(s):  
Geert Lernout
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
John William Draper ◽  
Century Science

According to the traditional (or ‘whig’) interpretation of history, sometime in the seventeenth century science was born in the form that we know today, in a new spirit that can best be summed up by the motto of the Royal Society: nullius in verba, take nobody's word for it. In the next few centuries this new critical way of looking at reality was instrumental in the creation of a coherent view of the world, and of that world's history, which was found to be increasingly at odds with traditional claims, most famously in the case of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. By the end of the nineteenth century, the divide between science and religion was described by means of words such as ‘conflict’ and ‘warfare,’ the terms used by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White in the titles of their respective books: History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874) and History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896).

scholarly journals Confronting Challenges in Islamic Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-174
Author(s):  
Brian Wright
Keyword(s):  
San Antonio ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of

At the 2016 meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio,the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) hosted the third annualIsmail al Faruqi Memorial Lecture. Delivered by Ahmad Atef Ahmad (Universityof California Santa Barbara), the lecture focused on the changing academicfield of Islamic studies: where the field has been, where it is now, andwhere it should go in the future.Ahmad began by outlining the history of approaching both Islamic studiesand comparative religion in general. After decades of claiming neutrality, hebelieves that the field has now reached a new phase. “In the past there was anassumption that there is a neutral, global set of rules and tools that can help usunderstand religion, like those of philosophy or anthropology. However, overtime we have come to realize that these tools are in no way neutral and comewith their own kinds of baggage.” This failure of neutrality has particularlyaffected scholars of Islam, because “You find that Muslim scholars who taketheir primary sources seriously find the deck stacked against them, especiallyfor those who are working in the West and trying to engage in conversationswith other religious traditions.”As a result of the realization that the tools of religious studies cannot beneutral, academia has undergone a significant shift ...

scholarly journals Contribuition to the history of documentation on Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Henrique Juvêncio ◽  
Georgete Medleg Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Institute ◽  
National Library ◽  
Cooperation Project ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Foreign Ministry

This article investigate the creation, in 1911, of the Serviço de Bibliographia e Documentação in the National Library from Brazil and what would have been the influence of the International Institute of Bibliography (IIB), founded in 1895 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. Seeks to demonstrate that the creation of the Bibliography and Documentation Service can be considered part of the international cooperation project by Otlet and La Fontaine. It intends to contextualize the period of transformations by which the Brazilian National Library went through, especially during the construction of a new building and its further occupancy as well as the administrative changes implemented by its director at the time, Manoel Cícero Peregrino da Silva. The methodology consisted of bibliographic and documentation based research in the archives of the Brazilian National Library and the Mundaneum Archives Centre in Belgium as well as the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute and the Foreign Ministry. The article argues that the establishment of the Serviço de Bibliographia e Documentação and Boletim Bibliographico da Bibliotheca Nacional were results of the contact maintained between the two institutions. It concludes that the International Institute of Bibliography and the Brazilian National Library sustained a close relationship for some years which apparently contributed to introduce the Documentation as a discipline in Brazil.

scholarly journals ISIS and the Challenge of Interpreting Islam

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-165
Author(s):  
Ayşenur Sönmez Kara
Keyword(s):  
San Antonio ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Text Context ◽  
Final Question

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) organized an “ISIS andthe Challenge of Interpreting Islam: Text, Context, and Islam-in-Modernity”panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting held onNovember 21, 2016, in San Antonio, TX. After the panel, it held a receptionand presented the al Faruqi Memorial lecture. The panel brought together seniorscholars of Islam, history, and cultural studies.Moderator Ermin Sinanović (director, Research and Academic Programs,IIIT) divided it into three rounds and allowed questions after each round. Eachround addressed an ISIS-related question: (1) “How should we best understandISIS? Is it a product of Islamic tradition or something inherently modern? Whatis ISIS an example for?”; (2) “What role does the Islamic tradition play in enabling,justifying, or delegitimizing ISIS?”; and (3) “Is ISIS Islamic?”The first speaker, Ovamir Anjum (Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of IslamicStudies, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University ofToledo) reminded the audience of the commonality of violence for politicalends in history by arguing that this is not a uniquely Islamic phenomenon. Accordingto Islamic tradition, groups like ISIS that employ violence to kill Muslimsand non-Muslims are ghulāt (extremists), rebels, or khawārij. One mustunderstand ISIS within the Islamic tradition, because the group is using Islamicsymbols. But this does not mean that it is an Islamic phenomenon.In the second round, he contextualized the issue by stating that the numberof Syrians killed by Bashar al-Assad is seven times higher than those killedby ISIS. He remarked that “ISIS is horrifying for psychological reasons becausethey use the pornography of violence, for example, not because theyare a uniquely murderous threat. There are a lot of those in the world.” Anjumalso found its acts dangerous because its members justify their own biases inthe name of Islam. He restated that the group is khawārij, enslaves and killsnon-combatants, and rejects the authority of existent Islamic scholarship becausethe Islamic juristic tradition forbids killing non-combatants.Anjum responded to the final question by refusing to call ISIS “Islamic,”for “Of course ISIS is making Islamic claims, but Islamic tradition is verycomplex and has been very difficult to agree on things except for a very, veryfew fundamentals throughout Islamic history.” He also argued that “those whoexcommunicate Muslims en masse and kill for that reason are khawārij, andthey must be fought. This is agreed upon by both Sunni and Shi‘a scholars.” ...

scholarly journals “FUNNY PICTURES”: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USSR (1932–1933)

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Marianna Shakhnovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Library ◽  
Academic World ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
State Museum ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the Leningrad of 1932–1933, two events took place in the academic world that would play an important role in the history of Soviet ethnography, museum construction and religious studies: the opening of the Museum of the History of Religion and the reorganization of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences. At that time, the Academy of Sciences considered it a priority to establish research institutes on the basis of academic museums. If a small collective of the new Museum of the History of Religion, headed by its director Vladimir Bogoras, welcomed such an undertaking, then the reform of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, its merger with the Institute for the Study of the Peoples of the USSR and the creation of the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR on their basis was quite painful for many MAE staff and led to the layoff or change in the status of the employees. The article publishes drawings and texts found in the Photo Library of the State Museum of the History of Religion, in the St Petersburg branch of the RAS Archive, and in the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian National Library, reflecting these events in a satirical form. The author presents cartoons from the wall newspaper of the Museum of the History of Religion (1932–1933), depicting Vladimir Bogoras, an ironic note by Bogoras himself about the participation of scientific workers in the exhibition work, as well as a poem by Eugeny Kagarov’s “The Revised Iliad”, which satirically presents personnel changes at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in 1933. The author of the article notes the importance of the discovered satirical works as a source that, like memoirs and letters, reflects subjective impressions and demonstrates a personal attitude to what is happening. In the article, these documents are commented on in detail, showing their importance for the study of the history of the Leningrad community of ethnographers and historians of religion in the early 1930s.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Sayyid M. Syeed
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
New Science ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
The World ◽  
Passionate Commitment

The news of Professor Mahmoud Abu Saud’s death has saddened usall. For several decades, he has been a prominent figure in the seminarsand conferences of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS),the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the Islamic Societyof North America (ISNA), the American Muslim Council (AMC), andother Islamic and interfaith organizations. His passionate commitment tothe reconstruction of Islamic thought, as well as his tireless involvementin writing, lecturing, and touring from country to country and from cityto city, were a great inspiration to our young scholars. As a learnedscholar, Social scientist, and, in particular, an economist, friend, and mentor,he will be missed in many forums. He served as a referee for theAmerican Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), and his commentswere always objective and straightforward. His ideas, ideals, and intellectualand moral heritage will continue to inspire his friends andstudents. We pray that Almighty Allah will cover him with His mercyand also grant us patience and help us to emulate some of his extra-The growth and development of MISS was one of the aspitations ofthe late Mahmoud Abu Saud. Our constant struggle to enhance the intellectualcontent of the journal will be a source of reward to the departedsoul of that great mujdhid. For verily “we belong to Allah and to Him wereturn.“This issue begins with Mahmoud Dhaouadi’s paper on Islamicknowledge and the rise of the new science. In the last few decades,Mahmoud Dhaouadi argues, western science has begun to shift from whatis called classical science to new science. This vision of the emergingnew science promises to heal the division between matter and spirit andto do away with the mechanical dimension of the world. However, theprocess of reconciliation between religion and science in modem westernculture still faces a great many hurdles. Islam, on the other hand, looksat knowledge and science as a continuum whereby divine and humanknowledge and science both cooperate with and complement each other.He gives examples from the practices of classical Muslim scholars, suchas Ibn Khaldin, who based their research on this approach. Knowledge ...

scholarly journals Reflections on Political Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Political Islam ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Majority

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) participated in the annualmeeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Atlanta, GA, heldNovember 21-24, 2015. In addition to the participation of staff and associatesin several meeting events and panels, IIIT maintained a book booth in the ExhibitHall, co-organized a panel on “Opportunities and Challenges of TeachingIslamic Studies in Theological Seminaries,” and held its second annual AARReception and Special Lecture.Offering a tribute to Ismail al-Faruqi (d. 1986), IIIT co-founder and cofounderof the AAR’s “Study of Islam” section, Abubaker Alshingieti (executivedirector, IIIT) and Ermin Sinanović (director of research, IIIT) expressedgreat pride in rekindling a stronger IIIT presence at the AAR by reviving thehistorical link established by al-Faruqi. Fittingly, John Esposito (GeorgetownUniversity), al-Faruqi’s first doctoral advisee, delivered the keynote speech:“Reflections on Political Islam: Concepts and Contexts.”An intellectual giant in his own right, Esposito presented a historicalanalysis of the rise of political Islam movements during the latter half of thetwentieth century through his individual interactions, appointments, and presencein spaces of influence at critical times. His keynote speech served bothas an intellectual analysis as well as a personal journey, full of spontaneouslysprinkled firsthand stories and narratives from private conversations. He emphasizedthe critical need to avoid ahistoric analyses of such movements andto resist symptomatic treatments that have become a popular approach bywestern governments blind to their own roles in such undesired behaviors andviolence.Referring to challenges like ISIS and youth radicalization, Esposito statedthat “unless you understand the context within which political Islam arose...:who were the players, what were the issues for these movements, and alsowhat their interactions were with government, you can’t understand why wecontinue to screw up today.” Making specific reference to recent governmentinitiatives on Countering Violent Extremism that are youth-centric and targetthe great role religion occupies in people’s lives, he reminded the audiencethat discounting a history of oppression by western-backed authoritarianregimes is a myopic perspective to the rise of radicalism.His speech spanned over fifty years of political history and Americaninvolvement in Muslim-majority nations with an emphasis on the Iranian ...

scholarly journals Editorial word

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Library ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This issue of Ukrainian Religious Studies (UR) is the first in 2019 to open a new page in the history of our professional publication. The complete digitization of all the UR numbers from 1996, which were published on the website of the National Library of Ukraine named after VI Khmelnytsky, was carried out. Vernadsky, located the journal on the new platform OpenJournalSestem, entered several scientometric databases responsible for global indexing of scientific publications (Google Scholar, Copernicus). We have updated the composition of the editorial board, which introduced world-renowned religious scholars. Changed our editorial policy, which is clearly written on their page. Now it has become more transparent and open: all articles to the SD will be submitted via the Internet and will be double-blind reviewed. In this way we are approaching the world standards for writing and publishing scientific articles.

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