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International Institute of Islamic Thought
Advancing Reform of Education in Muslim Societies
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Monthly e-Newsletter August 2017
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"Skulason's profound concerns about ethics and beliefs suggest that orthodox modes of knowledge production are not just inadequate but largely irrelevant, particularly for non-western cultures - although Skulason himself does not draw this conclusion. But the inadequacy of conventional ways of knowing, and the university as a repository of knowledge, is increasingly being questioned by Generation Z, the tech savvy cohort growing up with digital technologies*. If, asks Wellmon, 'the university's monopoly on knowledge has already ended, as critics suggest, then what distinguishes it from other sources of knowledge in the age of Google and Wikipedia? What is the purpose of the university in an age in which academic expertise has been eroded by the democratization of the tools for distributing knowledge?' ** It is not just that the processes of dissemination and transmission of knowledge have changed but also the very nature of knowledge itself: what actually constitutes knowledge and how we acquire it."
Rethinking Reform in Higher Education: From Islamization to Integration of Knowledge
Ziauddin Sardar & Jeremy Henzell-Thomas, p. 18
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-56564-977-4
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(Wellmon, Chad. 2015. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, p.19)
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) has established its Book Manuscripts Award Program to recognize outstanding unpublished book manuscripts that advance research grounded in Islamic thought and/or reform of education.
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IIIT invites applications for short-term research grants for Fall 2017. Maximum amount for short-term research grant is $2,500. These grants are meant to support research and writing by individual scholars. Grants could include funding for travel, research support, publication and dissemination of results.
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Re-Envisioning European Islam: Past, Present and Future
(Summer School of the European Muslim Network Academy Research)
Speakers:
Ahmet Alibasic, Karen Armstrong, Fabienne Brion,
Malika Hamidi, Tariq Ramadan, and others
(September 11-15, 2017)
Frankfurt, Germany
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Renewal of Islamic Thought: Contemporary Issues
Conference in Honor of Shaykh Dr. Taha Jabir Alwani
(October 23-24, 2017)
Herndon, VA, USA
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Rethinking Reform in Higher Education:
From Islamization to Integration of Knowledge
Authors: Ziauddin Sardar & Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
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منهاج الشريعة في تشريع الأحكام وأثره في توجيه الإجتهاد فيما لانص فيه
المؤلف: حسان عوض أبوعرقوب
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What is Islam?
The Importance of Being Islamic
Author:
Shahab Ahmed
What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term?
In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent.
What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation - one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic. It also puts forward a new understanding of the historical constitution of Islamic law and its relationship to philosophical ethics and political theory.
A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent.
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Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is - or is not. But little opportunity exists, either in the media or in society as a whole, to describe Islam: precisely the question this short and extremely accessible book sets out to answer. In simple, direct language it will introduce readers to Islam, to its spirituality, its principles, its rituals, its diversity and its evolution.
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Islam
Religion, Practice, Culture & World Order
Author: Ismail al Faruqi
Genuine understanding of Islam, the religion, will reveal...that Islam is a later moment of that very consciousness which produced Judaism and Christianity; that Islam, the culture, is as much a source of the Western civilization of the present millennium as classical Greece and Rome...that Islam's anti-clericalism made it the first "Protestant" revolution, that its rationalism made it the first "Enlightenment," that its pragmatism made it the first "technocratic," and that its law of war and peace made it the first "United Nations".
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Arabic Collections Online
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Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to 6773 volumes across 4361 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries. Supported by New York University in Abu Dhabi, this mass digitization project aims to feature up to 23,000 volumes from the library collections of NYU and partner institutions. These institutions are contributing published books in all fields-literature, business, science, and more-from their Arabic language collections.
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