ISLAMIC THEOLOGY: UNITING DIVERSE VOICES – MAIN HALL, ISTAC-IIUM
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| Day 1 | Thursday 18 January 2024 |
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: | Registration |
| 9:30 AM – 10:25 AM: | Formal Opening Welcome Recitation of the Qur’an and Du’a Welcome Address Dr Brendan N. Wolfe, Principal Editor, St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (University of St Andrews, UK) Welcome Address Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak. Rector of IIUM Inaugural Address YB Dr Zulkifli Hasan, Deputy Minister (Islamic Affairs), Office of the Prime Minister (Malaysia) |
| 10:25 AM - 11:00 AM: | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM: | Keynote 1 |
| One God, Many Prophets: Islam’s Approach to Theological Diversity Prof. Emeritus Datuk Dr Osman Bakar (ISTAC-IIUM, Malaysia) |
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| 12:00 AM – 12:15 PM: | Break |
| 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM: | Session 1 |
| Tawhid, Modern Thinking, and the Fragmented Self: Some Reflections Dr Muhammad Faruque (University of Cincinnati, USA) Beyond Creed: Prophethood and Miracles in Sufi Exegesis Dr Gavin N. Picken (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) Harmony Amidst Diversity: Islamic Theology's Quest for Unity in a Pluralistic World Dr Syeda Nada Qadri, Dr Mohd Waseem, and Dr Mir Sanobar (Aligarh Muslim University, India) |
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| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM: | Session 2 |
| Witnessing the Dynamism of Tawhid: The Theological Implications of Ibn al-ʿArabi’s Radical Nominalism and Inverted Ontology in his Fusus al-hikam Dr Aiyub Palmer (University of Kentucky, USA) The Unifying Terminologies of the Tribe: Ibn al-ʿArabi and the Sciences of Grammar, Number, Engineering, Healing, Theology, and Law Dr Eric Winkel (The Futuhat Foundation, Switzerland) The Emir’s Commentary on the Fusus al-hikam Dr Faris Abdelhadi (Independent Research, Jordan) |
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| 3:45 PM – 3:50 PM: | Break |
| 3:50 PM – 5:05 PM: | Session 3 |
| The Qur’anic Objective of Knowing Allah as the Basis for an Islamic Methodology Prof. Dr Jasser Auda, (Maqasid Institute, Canada) From Maqasid al-shari’a to Maqasid al-‘aqida Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (al-Azhar, Egypt) (online) Tawhid as Structuring Principle in Islamic Epistemology Prof. Dr Claire Gallien Zentrum für Islamische Theologie (Universität Tübingen) & Cambridge Muslim College (UK) (online) |
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| 5:05 PM – 6:00 PM: | Keynote 2 |
| Klossowski’s Reading of Nietzsche from an Islamic Viewpoint Prof. Dr Timothy Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad) (University of Cambridge, UK) (video) |
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| 6:00 PM: | End of Day 1 |
| Day 2 | Friday 19 January 2024 |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: | Breakfast |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: | Keynote 3 |
| Southeast Asia’s Contribution to the History of Islamic Theology Prof. Dr A.C.S. Peacock (University of St Andrews, UK) |
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| 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM: | Session 4 |
| Early Malay Muslim Political Theology: The Raja as Ibn ‘Arabi’s Perfect Human Dr Alexander Wain (University of St Andrews, UK) Mysticism as a Catalyst for Interfaith Dialogue in Islamic Theology Mir Sanobar, Shaista Akhter, and Mohd Waseem (Aligarh Muslim University, India) Can the Justification for God’s Actions be Known? An Analysis in the Context of the Concept of “Cause” (‘illat) in Divine Actions within the Maturidi-Hanafi Tradition of Thought and the Verses of the Qur’an that Declare Justification Dr Bilal Taşkın (Istanbul Medeniyet University, Türkiye) (online) |
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| 12:15 PM – 3:00 PM: | Lunch and Jumaah |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: | Keynote 4 |
| Towards An Islamic Theology of Global Change Prof. Dr Khairudin Aljunied (NUS, Singapore) |
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| 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Session 5 |
| Tawhid vs. Sola Scriptura: Competing Theologies of Qur’anic Sufficiency Dr Sohaib Saeed (Ibn Ashur Centre, UK) (online) Syed M. Naquib Al-Attas and the Development of a Modern Tawhidic Epistemology Ms Fadila Ezzat (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France) (online) The Islamic Tradition at European Universities Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University, Sweden) (online) |
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| 5:15 PM – 5:20 PM: | Break |
| 5:20 PM – 6:15 PM: | Session 6 |
| Technology and Humanity vs. Machine Intelligence: New Tasks for Islamic Theology Prof. Dr Karim D. Crow (Catholic University of America, USA) and Prof. Dr Asna Husin (UIN Ar-Raniry Darussalam, Indonesia) Islamic Theology as a Consolidation of Scientific Systems: Fragmenting or Unifying Dr Khalina Mohammed Khalili (Independent Researcher, Malaysia) |
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| 6:15 – 6:30 PM: | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30 PM: | End of Conference |
Co-hosted by al-Ghazali Chair of Epistemology, Civilisational Studies, and Renewal (ISTAC-IIUM), Malaysia and the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (University of St Andrews, UK).