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International Institute of Islamic Thought
Advancing Education in Muslim Societies
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Monthly e-Newsletter March 2018
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"First and foremost, the best education should confer the power to examine, know and change ourselves, so that we might transform the lives of others.
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"Education should confer the power to arrest fragmentation, resolve conflict and transcend narrow definitions of identity."
"Education should confer the power to discern and appreciate the many sources and strands of human knowledge and their confluence in the development of human civilizations."
"Education should confer the power to reach for the sky, and to join heaven and earth, the transcendent and the immanent, in the love of God and 'all that moves on the face of the earth'."
"Education should confer the power to relate and to know the 'other', and by so doing to enrich and improve ourselves."
"Education should confer the power to relate and to ask searching questions, root out our own prejudices, and resist indoctrination."
"Education should confer the power to amass a body of knowledge, to marshal evidence, and to resist conditioned, biased and one-dimensional thinking."
"Education should confer the power to recognize the full extent of human powers and faculties and to enable us to take conscious control of their development within ourselves."
"Education should confer the power to reach for a universal vision of excellence which encompasses truth, meaning, purpose and what it means to be fully human."
The Power of Education
Jeremy Henzell-Tomas
Paperback:
ISBN: 978-56564-568-4
Size/Pages: 36 p. / 2018
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| MA and PhD Students at the Winter School |
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| BA Students at the Winter School |
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| Roundtable: Developing an Islamic Economics and Finance Curriculum |
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Upcoming Summer Programs at IIIT
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is pleased to announce its 2018 Summer Student Program (SSP), which will be held in the period of June 25 - July 31, 2018. SSP is an intensive, residential program in Islamic studies and related subjects.
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This year, the Summer Institute for Scholars, titled "Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities," seeks to solicit scholarly contributions that would update our understanding of various sub-fields, methodologies, and topics along with identifying and offering novel approaches to teaching and studying Islam in North American colleges and universities..
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Turkish Religious Education and Diversity
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"Religious Education in a Diverse Society: Ta'aruf and Co-Existence"
Dr. Sel
รงuk, a Professor of Religious Education at the Divinity School of Ankara University and the first Muslim president of the Religious Education Association, thanked IIIT for the opportunity to share her work and learn more about IIIT's new direction towards Advancing Education in Muslim Societies (AEMS).
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"Pakistan's Educational Trends"
Dr. Amna Afreen,
has been conducting research on the topic as a Resident Fellow at IIIT since July 2017, delivered a talk titled, "Pakistan's Educational Trends".
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Coming soon!
In this set of three powerful essays, the late world renowned scholar and philosopher, Ismail Al Faruqi, displays his formidable insight, vast knowledge, and unique trademark logic, brought to bear on subjects still considered to be at the forefront of discourse on comparative religion.
Al Faruqi delves deep into the heart of the debate on the metaphysical nature of values in the Western and Muslim traditions, of the history of religions, and other issues ultimately to guide readers to a clarity of understanding and Islam's position in relation to them.
This will interest and stimulate many readers-enlightened thinkers, modern secularists, philosophers and theologians, Muslim or otherwise - as Al Faruqi strives to arrive at an accurate assessment of the fundamentals of these important subjects, and their significance for the human condition.
Isma'il Al Faruqi
(d. 1986) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, visionary, and an authority in comparative religion. A great contemporary scholar of Islam, his scholarship encompassed the whole spectrum of Islamic Studies covering areas such as the study of religion, Islamic thought, approaches to knowledge, history, culture, education, interfaith dialogue, aesthetics, ethics, politics, economics, and scinece. Without a doubt he was one of the great Muslim scholars of the 20th century.
Isma'il Al Faruqi: Selected Essays
Paperback: $10.95 - COMING SOON
eBook: $5.50 - AVAILABLE
Publication year: 2018
Pages: 108
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