ADVANCED STUDY WEEKEND ON IBN KHALDUN’S MUQADDIMAH

Islamic Courses with support of Ebrahim College and Al-Manaar | Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre presents:

ADVANCED STUDY WEEKEND ON IBN KHALDUN’S MUQADDIMAH

With

Professor Syed Farid Alatas [Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore]

Professor Recep Senturk [Dean College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar ]

Hosted by Dr Shamim Miah [Senior Lecturer, Department of Education and Community Studies, School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, UK]

PLEASE NOTE – VENUES:

Day 1: Saturday 30th September, 10am – 5pm : Birbeck College, London

Day 2: Sunday 1st October, 10am – 5pm: Al-Manaar | Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre

Please note Professor Recep Senturk will be teaching on Saturday only and Professor Syed Farid Alatas will teach on both days.

This intensive weekend study will look at the following:

• Ibn Khaldun’s science of society
• Khaldunian method and the model
• Applying Ibn Khaldun
• Ibn Khaldun: On knowledge: multiplex epistemology
• Towards a Khaldunian sociology of the state
• Khaldunian theory of reform
• Ibn Khaldun and multi-civilisational world order
• Khaldunian perspectives on modern Muslim States
• Khaldun in policy making and teaching in modern times
• Extensive discussions with Q and A

All welcome but it is aimed at academics within the humanities, educationalists, policy makers from think tanks and Ulema/Imams and Muslim community activists and those involved in dawah.

* Professor Syed Farid Alatas is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Visiting Professor at the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at the University of Malaya. He also headed the Department of Malay Studies at NUS from 2007 till 2013. Prior to joining NUS he taught at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies. In the early 1990s, he was a Research Associate at the Women and Human Resource Studies Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Alatas has authored numerous books and articles, including Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology (Routledge, 2014), and (with Vineeta Sinha) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (Palgrave, 2017); “Political Economies of Knowledge Production: On and Around Academic Dependency”, Journal of Historical Sociology 35, 1(2022): 14-23; and “Knowledge Hegemonies and Autonomous Knowledge”, Third World Quarterly (published online: 04 Oct 2022). His areas of interest are social theory, religion and reform, the sociology of Islam, intra- and inter-religious dialogue, and the study of Eurocentrism.

*Professor Recep Şentürk is the president of Usul Academy and teaches Sirah; Riyah al-Salihin; 40 Hadiths of Imam Nawawi and Comparative Theories and Methods. He currently serves as Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifah University. He was the founding president of Ibn Haldun University (IHU) in Istanbul (2017-2021). He obtained his BA from The School of Islamic Studies at Marmara University and MA in Sociology at Istanbul University. He pursued his PhD in Sociology at Columbia University in New York. He served as a researcher at The Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) in Istanbul, and the founding director of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute. He is head of the International Ibn Haldun Society. He has published widely in English, Arabic and Turkish on a whole range of topics, including social theory and methods, civilization, modernization, sociology of religion, networks of ḥadīth transmission, Malcolm X, Islam and human rights, modern Turkish thought, and the life and ideas of Ibn Khaldūn. Among his books are: Narrative Social Structure: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505; Malcolm X: The Struggle for Human Rights, and in Turkish; Open Civilization: Towards a Multi- Civilizational Society and World; Islam and Human Rights; Ibn Khaldun: Contemporary Readings; Malcolm X: Struggle for Human Rights; Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505. Şentürk’s works have been translated to Arabic, Japanese and Spanish.

*Dr Shamim Miah, is a senior lecturer and the author of four books: Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society (due 2023); Race, Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England (co author-2020); Muslims and the Question of Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racial Politics (2017) and Muslims Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation which received the ‘highly commended’ book award by the Society for Educational Studies’ (2016). Shamim is the co-editor for the Muslim’s in Britain series (Oxford University Press). He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and an associate editor for the journal Critical Muslim (Hurst)

All welcome, limited spaces, pre-registration required!

DEADLINE FOR BOOKINGS APPLY after which prices increase

For more information call/tel: 07956735301 or email: info@islamiccourses.org

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*Please note, time and resources have been set aside to ensure the programme runs in a smooth and professional manner for the maximum benefit of participants and thus unless the programme has been postponed or cancelled, there are NO REFUNDS as part of the terms and condition policy.

*Lunch and refreshments can be purchased at the venue and not included in ticket price