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 IIIT organized the first of a series of on-day seminars on American Muslim identity on Saturday, May 7th, 2011. The seminar, entitled “American Muslim Identity: Contexts, Dynamics, challenges & Prospects”, brought together twenty five scholars, intellectuals, experts and community leaders from diverse academic backgrounds, professions and community organizations. The rationale behind the seminar stems from a realization of the depth – and magnitude – of the current crises that engulf Muslim presence – and participation – in American society and their manifestations in the internal dynamics – and institutions - of the American Muslim community on one hand, and their participation in American politics and culture at large, on the other...
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 On Monday, July 11th, 2011, IIIT launched the 4th annual Summer Institute for Scholars at its offices in Herndon, Virginia, with the participation of more than thirty scholars, intellectuals, community leaders and graduate students. The focus of this year’s Institute is “Iftaa and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West: the Challenges of Authority, legitimacy and Relevance”... |
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 On Friday, June 10, 2011 Professor James Jones, Professor of Religion and African studies at Manhattanville College, New York, delivered a lecture at IIIT on the challenges of Islam to and in the United States. The major thesis of his presentation was that the current contentious clash between Islam and the West is being played out both in American foreign policy and domestic affairs. The situation – he contends - is not likely to be resolved positively unless each side understands and begins to deal with the role of victimhood in how they behave in reaction to the latest aggressive act from the other side...
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 The AMSS UK is pleased to announce that its prestigious 2011 Building Bridges Award has been presented to Professor Jack R. Goody, KBE, Emeritus William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology St. John's College, University of Cambridge on 3 June 2011, at the University of Westminster during a lecture given by Professor Goody on EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST.
The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS UK), is a non-profit organization based in London and committed to the development of perspectives on contemporary local and global issues through research, scholarship, conferences and publications... |
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IIIT hosted Dr. Louay Safi, Common Word Fellow at Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, on Friday, May 27, 2011. Dr. Louay spoke on Christian Muslim Encounters: Conflict, Cooperation and Convergence. The presentation was based on research work he is conducting, supported by IIIT, with the aim of producing a book manuscript before the end of 2011.
In his lecture, Dr. Louay contends that modern society is shaped by a set of ... |
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On Wednesday, May 11 th, 2011, IIIT hosted Mr. Mehdi Alizadeh, President of the Center for Ethics and Moral Education at Mustafa Open University, Qom, Iran; who spoke on the issue of the Islamization of Science. The Center for Ethics and Moral Education is active in the publication and translation of works on ethics, including a translation of a major manuscript on Global Ethics which contains Hans Kung’s proposals on the subject and those of the Parliament of Religions of Chicago 1993. Other major research concerns for the Center include bioethics, management ... |
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 IIIT organized a book launching event on Friday, May 6 for the recently published book on Islamic Law and Politics in Northern Nigeria, published by Africa World Press and authored by Ricardo Rene Laremont, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at SUNY Binghamton and Carnegie Corporation Scholar on Islam. The book examines the case of Islamic law in Nigeria through comparative analysis of the meaning of justice in Islamic, Jewish and ... |
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IIIT hosted Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Virginia on Friday, April 29, 2011. Professor Sachedina spoke to a select group of intellectuals and community leaders about the challenges of human rights and democratic pluralism in Islam.
In his lecture, Professor Sachedina challenged the exclusive claims to universality by some advocates of the International Declaration of Human Rights and their dismissal of the relevance of religion – Islam included – to the universal foundation of human rights. He called for an examination of the juridical and Qur’anic sources and foundations of human rights principles and went on in his lecture to elaborate those sources and foundations. In the course of his elaboration, he provided a well rounded critique based on textual and historical evidence to those who question the ... |
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 IIIT hosted Dr. Timur Yuskaev, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam and Director of Islamic Chaplaincy Program at the Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT on Friday, April 22nd. Dr. Yuskaev delivered a lecture on the emerging American Muslim interpretations of the Qur’an, entitled “A Spoken Qur’an: American Voices”.Through analysis of oral exegeses by two prominent American Muslim preachers, Imam W.D. Muhammed and Hamza Yusuf, Yuskaev argues that ... |
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 As part of its monthly lecture series, IIIT hosted - on Friday March 18th- Dr. Ron Messier, Professor Emeritus of History at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and author of Jesus, One man, Two Faiths; A Dialogue between Christians and Muslims. Since its publication in November 2010, the book captured the attention of many Muslims and Christians, particularly within the interfaith community circles. In his presentation, Dr. Messier spoke about the mystery surrounding the nature of Jesus, his humanness and divinity and the Muslim and Christian perceptions of Jesus and their interpretations of their scriptures that refer to... |
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