Book launch review discussion Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society

Organised by Islamic Courses with the Al Manaar | The Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre

BOOK REVIEW AND DISCUSSION: IBN KHALDUN: EDUCATION, HISTORY AND SOCIETY

with author : Dr Shamim Miah [University of Huddersfield, UK]*

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is a significant intellectual figure within the Muslim world. He is seen as the founding father of sociology, whilst making significant contributions in the fields of history, economics and philosophy. Despite the growth in the study of Ibn Khaldun in the west, his contributions to the field of social sciences is often limited to the academic community.

This book aims to bring the works of Ibn Khaldun to a much broader audience by drawing upon Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah to provide insights into his ideas on education, sociology and history.

Foreword by Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ebrahim, April 2023 – ‘Shamim Miah’s book is not only a valuable addition to the literature on ibn Khaldun but provides new insights into his thought on education and society. It is focused on showing the relevance of his intellectual discourse in our turbulent and complex postnormal times’.

About the author: Dr Shamim Miah, is a senior lecturer at Huddersfield University 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)

About Respondent reviewer:  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.

About chair: Paul Williams [Blogging Theology – bloggingtheology.com ] is host of the Blogging Theology channel, one of the world’s most popular YouTube channels discussing comparative religion by introducing some academic and scholarly content to the subject matter, especially concerning the Abrahamic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is a blogger and bibliophile based in London and the South of France and now teaches at the Ebrahim College.

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