Conferences

The World Bank recently released “The Global Findex Database 2021: Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of Covid-19” which shows that 76 percent of adults globally have access to an account with a bank or a regulated financial institution. The rise in the past decade has been the fastest ever with over a 50 percent jump in the population with access to banking accounts and this was largely possible due to rapid advances in technology and digital infrastructure for financial services.

Aleppo hosts a large population of remainees, returnees, and internally displaced people. Over the past decade, the city has experienced massive economic decline; the extensive destruction of Aleppo's infrastructure has exacerbated the situation, resulting in a significant deterioration in residents' livelihoods. The literature on post-conflict recovery notes that appropriate and well-managed rehabilitation planning and implementation can contribute to local economic recovery.

In the light of Qatar’s huge ongoing infrastructure developments projects, the discussion on infrastructure financing was carried out with particular reference to the role that the Islamic finance industry can play to participate in the efforts. Special attention was given to understand ground realities and challenges; feasible measures towards reducing barriers in accessing Islamic finance; create more sustainable, genuine and ethical Shari’ah compliant products; and encourage a more robust economy that meets the needs of all segments of society.

Fintech refers to the use of technology for delivering financial services, specifically through Internet-based crowdfunding platforms and mobile payment systems. Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are the result of cryptography applied to cash. The roundtable was a timely event to attract CEOs and Islamic finance leaders to explore how Islamic finance and regional financial institutions are planning to integrate fintech developments into their business models.

This paper aims to examine the thesis of Malek Bennabi and its intellectual and historical context, and his tendency to critique the path of intellectual disintegration, which he called “colonizability,” and its application to his intellectual project of the ‘Renaissance’—which regenerates the Islamic civilization once again after diagnosing its defects, in light of the presence of European factor and the glamor of its model.

The study seeks to provide a comprehensive scientific reading of the thought of Malek Bennabi through the book, The Conditions of the Renaissance, in which he raised a set of questions, focusing on the question of the future through the dual of abstract and incarnate, highlighting the most important ideas put forward by the thinker in this regard. The study was included in the Nvivo1O, which analyzes the problem analysis units and categories of Bennabi’s ideas today, and highlights the interrelationships between these ideas through the content analysis approach.

The question “How do we read Malek Bennabi?” is located in the area of exchange and interaction—the high density of the problematic—between what called him for thinking and the great tracts that he opened to thought, and what we today that strongly urges us to re-read. What drives us today to re-read Bennabi? How do we think with him and continue its project? This is what the paper attempts to answer.