As part of the CIS Research Seminar Series, Dr. Gavin Picken will shed light on his recent research project titled " Al-Harith Al-Muhasibi and the 'Baghdad School': Reflections from Al-Sulami's Tabaqat al-Sufiyya"
The 2023 CILE Winter School will be hosted in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), focusing on topics related to armed conflict ethics. Not only is this topic important as it brings forth discussions on maintaining ethics in violent and difficult situations, but it is also an issue that is relevant to the current position of Muslims in the context of the Global War on Terror (GWOT).
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The life and teachings of our beloved Prophet (PBUH) are the source of our manners and etiquettes. In this Minaretein Center X CIS Foresight Talks Series event, we will outline the guidance of the Prophet (PBUH) in dealing with stress and anxiety. Turning to the Sirah for guidance, this lecture will elaborate on the Prophetic model for combatting stress and overcoming grief in our lives.
Speaker: Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Orientalism has been rightly held accountable for complicity with colonialism, empire, prejudice, and racism. The wave of critique that was launched against it over the last half century did nothing but insulate it, if not strengthen it, through vaccination and mutation. Held as a part of the Dean’s Foresight Talks series, the lecture will explore the significance of this phenomenon to many academic disciplines and how remolded Orientalism must lead the way in redefining the modern and freeing it from its malevolent tendencies.
The field of governance, both in policy and in administration, encompasses various sciences and traditions to address the demands and challenges of the human social structure. However, current international standards in this area are largely defined by the dominant Western paradigm at the exclusion of all other religious and cultural traditions.
This lecture argues against the dominant narrative that the debate on ethical theory in classical Islamic thought can be reduced to a conflict between ethical rationalism and ethical anti-rationalism, or more simply put, a conflict between reason and revelation. Focusing on the Ash‘arī and Mu‘tazilī schools of thought, the speaker will analyse the concept of ‘intellect’ (‘aql) and examine its complex theoretical contexts, chronological development, and application in ethical and legal epistemology.
الأسرة هي ركيزة بناء المجتمع وتواجهها الكثير من التحديات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والثقافية والقانونية وغيرها في ظل الانفتاح والتطور التكنولوجي المعاصر. تسلط هذه السلسلة من المحاضرات "حماية الأسرة في ظل التحديات المعاصرة" الضوء على آليات الحماية الذاتية للأسرة من منظور علم الاجتماع والفقه الإسلامي والقانون القطري وتنفيذه عبر الأجهزة القضائية.
Futuwwa are codified ethical principles of Islamic chivalry and nobility. These are the ideals