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Author: Nassef Manabilang Adiong
Nassef is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort), PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization), DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network), and BRLN (Bangsamoro Research and Legal Network). He works on interdisciplinary research between Islam and International Relations and explores the Bangsamoro society as he heads the Policy Research and Legal Services (PRLS) of the Bangsamoro Parliament. Visit https://nassef.info/ for more details.
Society for Qur’anic Studies
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE SUPPORTS EXPLORATION
OF QUR’AN SCHOLAR NETWORK
ATLANTA, May 29, 2012 – The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) has been awarded a $140,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support a three-year consultation that will explore the formation of an independent network of Qur’anic scholars. This international consultation will meet to evaluate and frame a vision and mission for a professional organization, namely, a Society for Qur’anic Studies.
“Considering the enormous cultural importance and global influence of the Qur’an, a pressing need exists for an independent and self-defined association of scholars of the Qur’an to do collaborative research and to enrich and inform courses at colleges and universities,” says John F. Kutsko, executive director of SBL and director of the initiative.
The goal of the consultation is to give the academic study of the Qur’an the attention it
deserves, says Kutsko, who is also affiliate professor of biblical studies at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. “By providing more opportunity for research and by bringing more conversation into the classroom, such an organization will also foster mutual understanding and appreciation in the public square.”
“The level of interest in the Qur’an and Islam in the West today is unprecedented. Questions surrounding the Qur’an and its teaching on religious, social and political issues are increasingly raised in educational institutions and popular literature,” says Emran El-Badawi, Assistant Professor of Arab Studies at the University of Houston and co-director of the consultation. “A vast and ever-growing number of websites and online forums are devoted to discussions on the meaning and interpretation of the Qur’an, but no learned society dedicated to the study of the Qur’an exists.”
A Society for Qur’anic Studies (SQS) would play an important role as a meeting place where scholars and students of the Qur’an might present their particular contributions to the study of the Qur’an, while learning from others, says El-Badawi.
At the same time, an SQS would foster the study of the text for its own sake. “The Qur’an is a work of extraordinary importance, both for its witness to the rise of Islam, and for its central place in Islamic societies through the centuries and still today,” says Gabriel Said Reynolds, Tisch Family Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame and co-director of the consultation.
The network will be an academic forum in which scholars from around the world discuss and publish scholarship on the Qur’an. “Participants will be encouraged to share diverse perspectives and cutting edge research on the Qur’an’s language, its dialogue with other scriptures, and the context in which the text arose,” notes Reynolds. “By approaching the Qur’an as an historical, literary and religious text, SQS will demonstrate the extraordinary and wide-ranging scholarly value of the Qur’an.”
“It cannot be overstated that the agenda of the scholars in this consultation will not be
determined or directed by SBL,” says Kutsko. He emphasizes that SBL will serve only to provide the logistical support for Qur’anic scholars to foster their work.
“The guiding principle for the consultation is to ensure that scholars of Qur’anic Studies set their own research and publishing agendas, that our colleagues in this discipline have the resources to determine their own future, and that their impact transcends institutional and international lines,” Kutsko says.
“The founding of a new society for the study of the Qur’an will provide an institutional forum for Qur’anic Studies equal to the study of other religious texts and traditions,” says Vincent Cornell, chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University. “This establishes a base for Qur’anic Studies that hasn’t existed before, and thereby makes an important intellectual claim.”
The past two decades have witnessed tremendous growth in scholarship on the Qur’an, says Reynolds. “An annual academic forum on the Qur’an and related publications will allow scholars from a wide range of disciplines a context for collaboration and dialogue. It also will give students and informed members of the public access to a common forum where they will learn from and contribute to this rich discussion.”
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The Society of Biblical Literature, founded in 1880, is the oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines. As an international organization, the Society offers its members opportunities for mutual support, intellectual growth and professional development and is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies.
The Henry Luce Foundation, established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, seeks to bring important ideas to the center of American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities.
Contact: Elise Addington | eaddington@quranconsultation.com | 404-727-3111
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International Islamic Accounting and Finance Conference
Theme : Steering Innovations And Competitiveness In A Dynamic Economy: New Frontiers, New Lessons
Date: 19-21 November 2012
Venue: Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur
Organized by:
IIAFC 2012 is organized by Accounting Research Institute (ARI), together with its co-organizes, the Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia; Indonesian Islamic University (IIU), Jogjakarta, Indonesia; Centre of Islamic Banking & Finance, Royal Docks Business School, University of East London, United Kingdom; and Elshaarani Centre for Islamic Business and Finance, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The conference will act as a platform in giving opportunities for participants to network and share experiences in a unique inter-disciplinary environment among Islamic Accounting and Finance practitioners, academicians and other professionals who interested in this area. This event will also invite paper presenters to publish their work in the selected journals.
Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
Islamic Accounting
Shariah Auditing
Ethical Issues in Islamic Financial
Institutions and Financial Markets
Islamic Finance and Banking
Strategic Management from the Islamic Perspective
Accounting for Takaful
Comparative Study of Islamic & Conventional Accounting
Taxation and Zakat Accounting
Intellectual Capital in Islamic Organizations
Waqaf and Sadaqah
Islamic Microfinance
Reporting issues in Islamic Organizations
Corporate Social Responsibility from the Islamic perspective
Corporate Governance
Human Governance
Assurance in Halal Product Producers
Cost & Management Accounting
Islamic Accounting Theory
Accounting Education
Internal Audit in Islamic-based entities
External Audit in Islamic-based entities
Forensic Accounting from the Islamic perspective
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Important Dates
Full Paper Deadline: 30 June 2012
Acceptance Notification: 31 August 2012
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 30 September 2012
Early Bird Deadline: 7 September 2012
Participant Registration Deadline: 30 September 2012
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Islamic Renaissance
In the name of Allah the most Beneficent, the most Merciful
THE ISLAMIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL (IRFI),
Is soliciting individuals and Organizations to become joint sponsors or Cosponsors of The Second International Conference On
The Objectives of the Conference are to find practical solutions (a Road Map) or Strategies to solve the problems facing the Muslim Community in the 21st Century.
Preamble: There is no DOUBT that Muslims are backward in all facets of life. This conference seeks practical solutions for the upliftment of Muslim Ummah and how to Revive the Golden Age of Islam in this 21st century. The areas of interest are: 1. Education 2. Economics and Finance 3. Science and Technology 4. Religion 5. Medicine and Health
1. Submit Abstracts (300 words Max). Deadline: June 30, 2012
2. Notification of acceptance and invitation to submit full paper-July 15, 2012
3. Full Paper due: December 15, 2012
Please submit the Abstract and Full written paper in Microsoft word document and lecture presentation will be only in Microsoft PowerPoint Format.
The following 20 TOPICS are suggested FOR THE INTERNATIOANL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC RENAISSANCE TO BE HELD IN LOUISVILLE, KY. MAY 24-26, 2013
1. Critical Thinking -Education, career, personal life and religion
2, Opposing points of view are needed for the advancement of Muslims
3. Role of Ijtihad in Islamic Renaissance
4. Freedom of expression and thought are a necessity for the upliftment of Muslims
5. Reviving the status of women (50 % of Muslim Ummah) to the early Islamic period when they excelled in every field.
6. Misconceptions and Misinterpretation of Islam by Muslims are some of the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims.
7. How to build Riba Free World Bank and IMF as alternates to the present Riba based Institutions
8. How to understand the Qur’an in the 21st Century so that Muslims can Excel in Duniya and Aakhirah.
9. How to handle Fabricated Ahadeeth that are hindering the advancement of Muslims.
10. How to Revive the Golden Age of Islam in the 21st Century.
11. How to revive Education in Muslim countries in Curricula, Instruction, Incentives, IT so that the graduates become Second to None.
12. Practical steps to eradicate disease and improve health in Muslim countries
13. Practical steps to eradicate poverty and bring prosperity in the lives of Muslims
14. How to make Muslim Youth to excel in the Academics and sports so that they can achieve their highest potential (becoming Nobel Laureates and Gold Medalists in Olympics).
15. Why teaching of the Islamic Theory of Evolution is a necessity?
16. Are Commandments of Qur’an and Hadith eternally binding?
17. Antidote to Islamophobia – practical steps and strategies
18. The Interpretation of Shariah Laws in the 21st Century, so that Muslims living anywhere in the world can prosper and advance in their lives
19. How to revive Muslim’s input to Scientific Discoveries and Knowledge
20. Practical Solutions for Muslim Women to advance in STEM (Science, Technology, Engg., and Med) sciences
If your paper is selected for presentation, IRFI will provide the boarding, lodging, and Return Travel Expenses to Louisville, KY, USA.
For further Information, Please contact us by E- Mail:
islamicresearch@yahoo.com or IRFI.1988@YAHOO.COM
Visit our Website: http://www.irfi.org
Mailing Address: 7102 W. Shefford Lane, Louisville, KY 40242, USA
NO PHONE CALLS OR FAXES PLEASE
Instructions to Authors on Preparation of Manuscript
The paper should be formatted in one column format with the figures at the end. A maximum of eight keywords should be indicated below the abstract to describe the contents of the manuscript. Leave a blank line between each paragraph and between each entry in the list of bibliographic references. Tables should preferably be placed in the same electronic file as the text. There is no need to spend time formatting your article so that the printout is visually attractive (e.g. by making headings bold or creating a page layout with figures), as most formatting instructions will be removed upon processing.
Authors are advised to use Times New Roman 12-point font. Be especially careful when you are inserting special characters, as those inserted in different fonts may be replaced by different characters when converted to PDF files. It is well known that ‘�’ will be replaced by other characters when fonts such as ‘Symbol’ or ‘Mincho’ are used.
We recommend that authors prepare the text as a Microsoft Word file.
1. Manuscripts in general should be organised in the following order:
Page 1: Running title. (Not to exceed 60 characters, counting letters and spaces).
This page should only contain your running title / full title of your paper. In addition, the Subject areas most relevant to the study must be indicated on this page. Select one or two subject areas from.
A list of number of black and white / color figures and tables should also be indicated on this page.
Page 2: Author(s) and Corresponding author information.
This page should repeat the title of your paper with name(s) of all the authors, institutions and corresponding author’s name, institution and full address (Street address, telephone number (including extension), hand phone number, fax number and e-mail address) for Program Committee correspondence.
Author’s addresses. Multiple authors with different addresses must indicate their respective addresses separately by superscript numbers:
George Swan1 and Nayan Kanwal2
1Department of Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA.
2Research Management Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.
Page 3: This page should repeat the title of your paper with only the Abstract (the abstract should be less than 350 words for a Regular Paper . Keywords must also be provided on this page (Not more than eight keywords in alphabetical order).
Page 4 and subsequent pages:
This page should begin with the Introduction of your article and the rest of your paper should follow from page 5 onwards.
Text. Regular Papers should be prepared with the headings Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions in this order.
The introduction should state the purpose of the article and that it complies with the
Theme of the Conference.
Tables. All tables should be prepared in a form consistent with recent issues of a journal and should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Explanatory material should be given in the table legends and footnotes. Each table should be prepared on a separate page. (Note that when a manuscript is accepted for presentation, tables must be submitted as data – .doc, .rtf, Excel or PowerPoint file- because tables submitted as image data cannot be edited for publication.)
Equations and Formulae. These must be set up clearly and should be typed triple spaced. Numbers identifying equations should be in square brackets and placed on the right margin of the text.
Figures & Photographs. Submit an original figure or photograph. Line drawings must be clear, with high black and white contrast. Each figure or photograph should be prepared on a separate sheet and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Appropriate sized numbers, letters and symbols should be used, no smaller than 2 mm in size after reduction to single column width (85 mm), 1.5-column width (120 mm) or full 2-column width (175 mm).
For electronic figures, create your figures using applications that are capable of preparing high resolution TIFF files acceptable for publication. In general, we require 300 dpi or higher resolution for colored and half-tone artwork and 1200 dpi or higher for line drawings. For review, you may attach low-resolution figures, which are still clear enough for reviewing, to keep the file of the manuscript under 5 MB.
Results: Provide a detailed report on the data obtained during the study. All data in the text must be consistent throughout the manuscript, including any illustrations, legends, or tables.
Discussion: Be succinct. What does your study show? Discuss the importance of your paper with regard to the relevant world literature; a complete literature review is unnecessary. Analyze your data and discuss their strengths, their weaknesses, and the limitations of the study.
Legends must be included for all illustrations and listed in order. Explain what each illustration shows. Give the magnification of all photomicrographs. Define all arrows and other such indicators appearing on the illustration.
All references must be cited in the text.
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CFP: Identity Religion and Ethnicity: New Patterns, Realities and Pitfalls
Where: Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2012
Organisers: KULeuven Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies (GCIS), Intercultural Dialogue Platform (IDP) and Department of Sociology (Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul)
Workshop theme and questions
Identity, Religion and Ethnicity are three terms interrelated and become all important issues in the European Union and its neighbourhood. The social change and economical transformation of societies fallowed by flow of people, objects, symbols and places enforce the change on identity and citizenship relations. In sum, in addition to the flows, all changes concern the interpersonal and inter-group dimensions. Today, a high degree of human mobility, telecommunications have contributed to the new understanding of citizenship as a mode of identity in relation to national identity, ethnicity, religion, groups and social movements. Belonging to an ethnic-religious group and distinctions are increasingly blurred or strengthened in the new national and international contexts.
The motivations and modalities of belonging and identifying are much more diverse. It is therefore useful to explore relatively new patterns of the intersection between religion, identity and ethnicity issues. As noted “Race, ethnicity, and nation are not things in the world but ways of seeing the world. They are ways of understanding and identifying oneself, making sense of one’s problems and predicaments, identifying one’s interests, and orienting one’s action. They are ways of recognizing, identifying, and classifying other people, of construing sameness and difference, and of “coding” and making sense of their actions” (Brubaker, Loveman, and Stamatov 2004). The workshop proposes to analyse the relation between these three notions interconnected in different political, cultural and economical cases to understand also some challenges and pitfalls in a plural society.
What is the relation between identity, ethnicity and citizenship in a global world? What are the new patterns of ethnic identities in plural societies? Can globalization de-ethnicize religion? How ethnical and religious identity is changed and faced with social and economic changes? What are the roles of social movements in these undergoing changes? What are the challenges for the classical religious-ethnic identity? How can nation state models regulate the plurality of religious and ethnic groups? How does EU deal with ethnical pluralism and diversity?
Participants in the workshop Identity, Religion and Ethnicity will explore the answers of these questions. The workshop will analyse the interaction and the interpenetration of race, ethnicity and identity through the problematic of transnationalism, globalization and nation-state approaches. The workshop will be accompanied by practical visits with local communities. Participants are invited to discover the theoretical debates and issues in local different areas with practitioners and civil society representatives to further having insights from demographic, economic, philosophic, legal and socio anthropological approaches. This workshop looks at identity, citizenship and ethnicity issues across Belgium as well as in the Turkey, focused primarily on Belgium-EU cases.
Topics of Workshops
The workshop will be organized around three central themes.
Authors are invited to send abstracts (maximum 500 words) of their papers on themes of their own choosing, which may include (by way of example only):
Ethnicity and ethno-nationalism
Multiple language policies and education
Racism and nationalism
Immigration, Assimilation and National History
Religion and ethnic identities
Religious Minority and Identity
Immigration and Religion
Politics and Ethnicity
Identity policies and Citizenship
Citizenship and Nation state
Multiculturalism and ethnic relations
Programme
A detailed schedule will follow in due course.
Tuition Fees and Scholarships
There is no tuition fee for the workshop programme. The IDP will pay all the costs of accommodation and board, and transfers, and there is no registration fee for participants in the Workshop. However, authors are expected to pay the costs of their flight to and from Turkey (currently about 300 euros). A limited number of scholarships are available for outstanding candidates to cover tuition, travel and accommodation.
Outcome
Within six months of the event, a book will be produced and published by the GCIS, comprising some or all of the papers presented at the Workshop. The papers will be arranged and introduced, and to the extent appropriate, edited, by scholar(s) to be appointed by the Editorial Board.
Copyright of the papers accepted to the Workshop will be vested in the GCIS.
Selection Criteria
The workshop will accept up to 20 participants, each of whom must meet the following requirements:
– have a professional and/or research background in related topics of the workshop;
– be able to attend the entire programme.
Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers as well as civil servants and professionals from intergovernmental and governmental agencies working in ethnicity, migration areas are encouraged to apply.
Since the Workshop expects to address a broad range of topics while the number of participants has to be limited, writers submitting abstracts are requested to bear in mind the need to ensure that their language is technical only where absolutely necessary and intelligible to non-specialists and specialists in disciplines other than their own; and present clear, coherent arguments in a rational way and in accordance with the usual standards and format for publishable work.
Timetable
1. Abstracts (300–500 words maximum) and CVs (maximum 1 page) to be received by 10th August 2012.
2. Abstracts to be short-listed by the Editorial Board and papers invited by 30th August 2012.
3. Papers (2,500 words minimum – 5,000 words maximum, excluding bibliography) to be received by 1st October 2012.
4. Papers reviewed by the Editorial Board and classed as: Accepted – No Recommendations; Accepted – See Recommendations; Conditional Acceptance – See Recommendations; Not Accepted.
5. Final papers to be received by 20th October 2012.
Workshop Editorial Board
Johan Leman, KULeuven
Erkan Toguslu, KULeuven
Ismail Mesut Sezgin, IDP and Leeds Metropolitan University
Workshop Co-ordinator
Ismail Mesut Sezgin
Venue
Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul, Turkey
The international workshop will be entirely conducted in English and will be hosted by Suleyman Sah University in Istanbul.
Papers and abstract should be sent to Erkan Toguslu erkan.toguslu@soc.kuleuven.be
For more information plz contact:
Erkan Toguslu
KULeuven Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies
Parkstraat 45 – box 3615
3000 Leuven
erkan.toguslu@soc.kuleuven.be
Nassef Manabilang Adiong, PhD 
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