The 7th CEOs and Islamic Finance Leaders Roundtable will assist in gathering firsthand information from decision-makers and leaders of Islamic finance and provide a platform to discuss Qatari banking and financial institution roles and opportunities in the Qatar Islamic Sukuk Hub, the Qatar Fintech Strategy, and the Qatar National Climate Action Plan.
Shah Waliullah al-Dahlavi is well known for his enormous efforts to restore some of the waning glory of
The talk explores the development of public values in the Tawhidi traditions during both the prophetic and rational phases of human evolution and examines the impact of these values on the rise and fall of public institutions and civil society. The lecture focuses particularly on the relevance of public values to cultural vibrancy and social cohesiveness in human societies in general and
The covenants of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and how these eventually came to be forgotten when the Pact of ‘Umar began gaining prominence during the ‘Abbasid era. The future of interreligious could be promising if the covenants become the focus of how Muslims and others should relate to one another.
Futuwwa are codified ethical principles of Islamic chivalry and nobility. These are the ideals
The Arab world has struggled with the application of transitional justice in post-war times, which on several occasions has led to renewed cycles of violence; in some cases, countries have slid into brutal civil wars. In his lecture on transitional justice in the Arab world, Dr. Fraihat will present the lessons learned from different experiences in Iraq, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, and share his thoughts on how to achieve peaceful and successful political transitions with transitional justice at the heart of the process.
Dr. Alex Caeiro will describe the modern legal trajectory of Qatar. The seminar will highlight the competition between the civil and shar'i judiciaries over legal authority. It will seek to explain the appeal of sharia courts for Qatar's modernizing society during the second half of the twentieth century.
The Great Mosque of Damascus is an iconic monument of world architecture, and the old mosque still stands in a state closer to its original state. It was built at the end of the first Islamic century on a site previously occupied by a Roman temple of Jupiter and a church of John the Baptist. This lecture explores this pre-Islamic past, the political crisis that erupted with Damascene Christians upon the foundation of the mosque, and the aesthetic values that underpinned the Umayyad monument.