International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
 
Reform of Education in Muslim Societies
October, 2017
Honoring Shaykh Taha Jabir Al-Alwani



 
IIIT honored one of its late founders, Shaykh Dr. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani (d. 2016), with an October 23-24 seminar on the renewal of Islamic thought, a topic that he engaged with and pursued throughout his entire adult life, even when he was ill and confined to a wheelchair.




Upcoming Events

IIIT Roundtable 
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
 Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017
5-6:30 p.m.
  
Roundtable panelists:  
 
Ovamir Anjum    
 
Mohammad Fadel    
 
 
Zainab Alwani   
Basma Abdelgafar    
Ermin Sinanovic  
 

معالم صورة الإنسان بين المرجعيتين الإسلامية والغربية


ينظمه المعهد العالمي للفكر الإسلامي والمعهد العالي للحضارة الإسلامية
ووحدة بحث دراسات قرآنية معاصرة /جامعة الزيتونة-تونس
 
 
تونس: 3- 5 أيلول (سبتمبر) 2018م
 
 
 
 
Panelists from left to right: Dr. Allison Ward Parsons, Dr. Kathleen Ramos, Dr. Susan Douglass, Dr. Colette Chabbott
 
Saulat Pervez, a panelist and Program Manager at IIIT


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Dr. Ronald Lukens-Bull - professor of Anthropology at the University of North Florida- delivered a talk on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 titled, "Indonesian Islamic Education in a Globalizing Era."

 
 




















شارك الدكتور بدي ابنو رفقة الدكتور أنس الشيخ علي والدكتور محسن أبو الفضل في الجامعة الصيفية التي نظمها في كيب تاون (جنوب افريقيا) مكتب لندن بالشراكة مع مؤسسة السليماني الخيرية المحلية ومؤسسة محيا التركية في كيب تاون من ٥ إلى ١٦ أكتوبر ٢٠١٧. و  

 




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Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought

According to the Islamic paradigm of knowledge, human knowledge is enriched by knowledge of the divine, so that people are always aware of God's assistance and never have the sense of being left entirely to their own devices. Therefore, the attitude so haughtily touted by the secular paradigm, that the Unseen has no epistemological value, is rejected by the Islamic paradigm. Instead, Muslims are fortified by the confidence coming from their reliance on the two most important sources of knowledge: revelation and the universe.

Shaykh Taha Jabir Al-Alwani, International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2005, p. 7


 
 

 
About IIIT Libraries
 
The Taha Jabir Al-Alwani and the Ismail al Faruqi  Libraries of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) provide students and faculty with a rich resource of over 100,000 volumes focused primarily around Islamic Studies, Comparative Religion, Islamic History, Arabic Language, and Social Sciences. The reference collection includes electronically-stored collections of Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, Islamic History, Quran, Tafsir and the Encyclopedia of Islam, as well as biographies, and encyclopedias. In addition, the libraries acquire a number of currently published books each month.
 
Both libraries use the Library of Congress system of cataloging and database search and have the capacity to conduct searches for volumes in English and in Arabic transliteration using the Library of Congress Arabic Romanization Table.  
  


The Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. The corpus provides three levels of analysis: morphological annotation, a syntactic treebank and a semantic ontology.