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 A three-day international conference on “Women’s Empowerment: Paradigms, Sources, Methodologies” was inaugurated in Calicut, Kerala, India on January 6-8, 2012 by economist Dr Abusaleh Shariff with an address on “Gender Empowerment in India: Concept, Measurement and Policy.” The conference was organized by the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) in collaboration with National Women’s Front. ...
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In a ceremony on December 7, 2011, Nazareth College of Rochester became the beneficiary of a new academic chair endowed by IIIT. The chair appropriately named ‘International Institute of Islamic Thought Chair in Interfaith Studies and Dialogue’ is placed in the Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, which is now named after Brian and Jean Hickey who gifted funds to endow the Center. Mr. Brian Hickey is a trustee of the College. The IIIT donation was a challenge grant for which the Hickeys provided matching donation... |
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 IIIT held its first seminar for the year 2012 on Thursday, January 5th at its offices in Herndon, Virginia. The three-hour panel discussion focused on the recently held elections in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt and the debate that ensued after Islamist parties in the three countries achieved significant electoral victories. They won absolute majority in the Egyptian Parliament and significant votes in Tunisia and Morocco that allowed them to form strong coalition governments in the two countries. The main panelists were: Dr. Muqtedar Khan, Professor of International Relations and Islamic studies at the University of Delaware, Dr. Mohammad Nimer, Professor of International Relations at the American University, Washington, DC; and Dr. Anwar Haddam, the well known Algerian political leader. Dr. Jamal Barzinji, Vice President of IIIT was the main discussant of the panel.The discussion itself centered around four major questions... |
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 In its last lecture of the 2011 Lecture Series, IIIT hosted on Friday December 16th Dr. Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Maryland and a former Iranian diplomat. He spoke about “Rethinking Diplomacy and Islam: A Focus on Iran”....
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 IIIT's publication, "Kayfa nata’amal ma’ al Qur’an al Kareem" by Muhammad al Ghazali has been translated into the Azeri language.
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 The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), in partnership with the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS) at Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, organized a series of special events in honor of Professor Ali Mazrui, at the 45th annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), held at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington DC on November 18-19, 2011.
The special events started on Friday, November 18 with an exhibition of selected items from the Mazrui collection and memorabilia. The full collection that includes more than forty ... |
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 IIIT resumed its monthly lecture series on Friday, October 28, 2011 by a lecture from Joseph Montville, Senior Research Fellow at IIIT and political psychologist, who spoke on “the Prophet and the Jews of Medina”. The paper is part of a series of research papers that aim to illuminate the historical encounters between Jewish and Muslim communities at different stages of their common history and address some of the issues in these encounters that have particular significance, especially within the contemporary context.
The paper describes the ...
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 Once again this year, the Annual Banquet of the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) brought together Muslim leaders and activists to hear about CAIR’s progress in protecting the civil rights of Muslim Americans and to generate funds for its continuing work. Imam Siraj Wahhaj urged those present to donate generously. Congressman Jim Moran addressed the problems of prejudice against, and ignorance about, the Muslim community, and advised increased participation in the political process.
Dr. Iqbal Unus, Director of The Fairfax Institute at IIIT received CAIR’s 2011 Lifetime Service Award at this well-attended event in... |
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The following 5 new titles and 2 new editions of IIIT publications will appear in the US in January, 2012.
New Titles
1) Al-Shura: The Qur'anic Principle of Consultation
2) Apostacy in Islam: A Historical and Scriptural Analaysis - Taha Jabir Alwani
3) The Socio-Intellectual Foundations of Malik Ben Nabbi's Approach to Civilization - Bandrane Benlahcene
4) The Qur'anic Worldview: A Springboard for Cultural Reform - AbdulHamid AbuSulayman
5) Toward Our Reformation: From Legalism to Value-Oriented Islamic Law and Jurisprudence - Mohammad Omar Farooq
New Editions
1) The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam - Taha Jabir al Alwani
2) Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide for Muslims - Muhammad Shafiq and Muhammed Abu-Nimer
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