scholarly journals IIIT Intellectual Panels

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Hadeel Elaradi
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Real World ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Knowledge

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels atthe 42st annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America-MuslimAmerican Society (ICNA-MAS) in Baltimore, MD, on Saturday, April 15,2017. This year, the convention’s theme was “The Quest for True Success:The Divine Message of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.”IIIT’s intellectual panels dealt with a variety of topics. The first session,“The Concept of Madrasa: Context and Reform,” revolved around EbrahimMoosa’s What Is a Madrasa? (Chapel Hill: University of North CarolinaPress, 2015). Moosa (professor, Islamic studies, University of Notre Dame)reminisced about his time as a madrasa student in India, stating: “The way Icame into India was in a very pietistic orientation, that Islam was all about piety. India and the madrasas taught me that Islam is about thinking ... piety... goodness ... making a contribution to the world.” However, he continued,the “madrasas have done a good job in preserving the identity of traditionalIslam, but it’s unable to make that identity actually work in the real world. ...and that modern knowledge has been closed off from the lived experience ofMuslims.” ...

scholarly journals Editorial Note

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Sulayman S. Nyang
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Note ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Part Presentation ◽  
The University

In this issue we have a collection of very interesting articles. There is thelead article written by the late Professor Ismail al Faruqi, founding Presidentof the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Reston, Virginia, and thefirst President of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists in 1972. Thesetwo organizations, which are separate but work together as partners in Muslimscholarship in North America, are the sponsors of this journal.Dr. al Faruqi's contribution on the important question of world theologyintroduces a four-part presentation on aspects of the Islamization of Knowledge.Well-grounded in this field of knowledge and coming from a background whichclearly made him one of the few Muslim scholars capable of engaging in ameaningful dialogue with Western thinkers on their own ground, Professoral-Faruqi identifies the main areas of discourse and then offers a critical Islamicperspective on the problem.Following his article are two position papers on pressing current issues.The first is the piece written by S. Abdullah Schleifer, an American Muslimcurrently working and living in Cairo, Egypt. A prominent journalist withmany years of experience in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world,Schleifer looks at the needs, feasibility and limitations of an independent IslamicNews Agency. This piece is provocative and provides food for thought to thoseMuslims who are interested in the current debate on the New InternationalInformation Order (NIIO). The second paper deals with the operations ofmodern financial markets for stocks and bonds and its relevance to an Islamiceconomy. Written by Professor Raquib uz-Wan, it focuses on a very importantissue in the current discussion on Islamic economics.We regret to announce that Dr. Musa O.A. Abdul, a member of our AdvisoryEditorial Board has passed away due to natural causes. Students andfaculty of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and all others who came to knowhis work in Islamic studies will always benefit, inshallah, from his inspiringdevotion to the cause of Islam.We hope that this issue will continue the steady improvement in the qualityof this journal. We are determined, insha' Allah, to raise the quality of productionand the quality of scholarship in this journal. For this and other relatedreasons we call on all scholars who are interested in the Muslim World tosend in their comments and suggestions. Contributions are welcome fromall over the world ...

scholarly journals Observing the Observer

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
David H. Warren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Interested Reader ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Muslim Minority

This publication, a collection of ten essays incorporating both quantitative andqualitative studies, has emerged as part of a lengthy research project conductedby the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and the Center for Islamand Public Policy (CIPP) beginning in 2004 and concluding in 2007. Naturally,given the state of relations between the United States and those countries perceivedas comprising the “Muslim World,” as well as regular controversies andscandals relating to the American Muslim minority and those who purport toobserve, study, and teach others about them and their religion, such a study isparticularly welcome. The studies included are aimed at both students and specialists,not only in the field of “Islamic studies” itself, but also more broadlywith regard to such related academic fields as theology and anthropology. Anotheraudience is the more general interested reader who might wish to learnwhat may (or may not) have changed in that field attacked so successfully inEdward Said’s great polemic, that its title Orientalism ultimately entered Islamicstudies as a truly condemnatory and pejorative slogan ...

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies in Theological Seminaries

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-162
Author(s):  
Fatima Siwaju
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Care Coordinator ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Theological Schools ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Muslim Student ◽  
Professional Degrees

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 ...

scholarly journals The International Institute of Islamic Thought Intellectual Panels

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Saulat Pervez
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
North America ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
International Institute ◽  
The Core ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Distinguished Scholar ◽  
Diverse Audience ◽  
The U.S

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 ...

scholarly journals IIIT Panels at the 2016 ISNA Convention

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-165
Author(s):  
Hadeel Elaradi
Keyword(s):  
Annual Convention ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Islamic Thought

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels atISNA’s 41st annual convention in Chicago, IL, on September 3-4, 2016.

scholarly journals Issues in Methodology of Islamic Thought

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-372
Author(s):  
IIIT - Cairo Office
Keyword(s):  
September 11 ◽  
Scientific Methodology ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Municipal Council ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The University

During the period from Safar 9-12, 1410 H. / September 11-14,1989 A.D.,a seminar on the "Issues in Methodology of Islamic Thought" was held atAmir AM al Qadir University of Islamic Studies (Qusantinah, Algeria). Theseminar was organized by the university in conjunction with the InternationalInstitute of Islamic Thought (Washington, D.C.). A group of professors andstudents of both sexes from Amir Abd al Qadir University, as well as fromthe Central University, participated in the seminar activities. The openingsession was attended by representatives from Qusantinah Province, the NationalLiberation Front, the Municipal Council, and the Religious Committee.Speeches were delivered by Dr. 'Ammar al Talibi, the University Presidentand Chairman of the seminar; Dr. Gamal El-Din Attia, Academic Advisorof the International Institute of Islamic Thought and convenor of theseminar; and by Dr. Muhammad 'AM al Hadi Abu Ridah representing theguests of the seminar.The seminar included seven panels where twenty-one research papers,prepared for the seminar, were presented and discussed. These research paperscovered the following topics:1- Inference Methodology in the Qur'an: A Response to the Opponentsof Faith, by Dr. Ahmad 'Atwah.2- The Elements of Scientific Methodology in the Qur'an andal Sunnah, by Dr. Ghawi 'Inayah.3 - Muslim Methodology in Islamic Theology, by Dr. FawqiyahHusayn.4 - The Methodology of Ideology in the Light of ContemporaryScientific Advances, by Dr. Muhammad Abd al Sattar Nassar.5- An Overview of the Methodology of Recording History, byDr. 'Abd al Halim 'Uways.6- The Methodology of the Principles of Jurisprudence, by Dr.Abd al Hamid Madkur.7- The Crises of Methodology in Modem Ideological Studies,by Dr. Muhammad Kamal al Din Imam.8- The Scientific Methodology and Spirit of Ibn Khaldun andIts Relation to Islam, by Dr. 'Imad al Din Khalil ...

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 Yoga sebagai Jalan Realisasi Kesadaran Diri dalam Teks Tattwa Jnana

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
I Gusti Made Widya Sena
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Spiritual Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
The Right

<p>In his life man has two consciousnesses, namely physical awareness and spiritual<br />awareness. Physical awareness is any form of change of mind to know and feel the state of the physical body. A conscious body is a form of representation of various changes in desires that want the body to always be healthy, fit, beautiful and not lack anything. Without us knowing it in the end, physical awareness will bring life to be increasingly tied to the world that is outside us and forget the real world that is within us. This truth is important to realize because knowledge without understanding will be a form of implementation of blind practices.<br />Blindness in question is not blind to the senses, but blind to the psychological aspects by forgetting the true nature of self. For this reason, the right knowledge and understanding and implementation of tattwa teachings, especially regarding Yoga as a Way of Realizing Self Awareness in the Tattwa Jnana Text, is very important to be put forward in daily life towards spiritual awareness and improvement of a harmonious life. Based on the background above, the authors are interested in raising this paper because previously there had never been any scientific writing or articles related to the theme that the author adopted. In addition, by writing this article, it is hoped that later scientific articles of the same type will increasingly develop and contribute to the world of modern knowledge and health.</p>

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 ...

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