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.
We are living in a time where moral and ethical disintegration seems to be the norm, and there is a dire need to correct this situation or at least address it in a wise manner. This conference will highlight that the essential solution to this moral decay lies in turning back to the ways of our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The event will bring together outstanding scholars to deliberate on how to reinstate the Prophetic role and his perennial teachings in the continuous process of reforming ourselves and our society in contemporary times.
Social sciences were created in aftermath of a century of religious wars in Europe, which demonstrated to Europeans that religion does not offer viable methods to organize society. Rejection of God, Judgment, and the Afterlife led to grounding of social sciences on the assumptions that man is just another animal, with pursuit of pleasure as the only goal. Furthermore, society consists of competing groups operating in an environment of war of all against all, with survival of the fittest being the only moral principle.
Interest is deeply embedded into modern capitalist economies. Setting interest rate to zero is likely to crash such economies; modern forms of financial capitalism cannot function with zero interest.
Following on the previous research, Dr. Tarek Swelim will deliver a lecture to revisit the discoveries in the Lost City of al-Qata'i'. The city of al-Qata’i’ was founded by Ahmad Ibn Tulun in 870 A.D., being the third capital of Islamic Egypt, after those of al-Fustat and al-Askar. Historical sources tell us that it had splendid buildings never seen before in Egypt, since the time of the Ptolemies. The flourishing city of al-Qata’i’ was seized and destroyed by the Abbasids in 905 A.D. The city is well described by its contemporary historians.
As part of the CIS Fintech Seminar Series, Dr. Burak Saltoğlu (Professor of Econmics, Boğaziçi University) will lead a seminar on 'Analyzing Individual Risk Taking Behavior with Machine Learning: An Application with a Pension Fund Data'.