By Osman Bakar, Eric Winkel, Airulamri Amran
Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia, 2011. page 299
ISBN: 978-967-10065-2-8

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Islam and Higher Education held at IAIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur on 8-9 November 2010. This book may serve as a catalyst, at least at the level of ideas, to the transformation of contemporary Muslim higher education to one that would be more in conformity with the needs of the twenty-first century umma.

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By Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia, 2011. page 442
ISBN: 978-967-10065-3-5

This book, which comprises of twenty-four articles, was first published in 1992 as the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Modern Science and the Muslim World held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2-4 September 1987. Since the book's broad theme is about the transfer of science and technology from the modern West to the Muslim world, particularly the Ottoman world, each article seeks to illustrate the meaning and significance of the theme through an investigation into the specific domain of the transfer with which it is concerned. We could see the transfer of scientific knowledge and technology taking place in such domains as astronomy, medicine, mathematics, various branches of engineering, urban planning concepts and architectural technology.

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About the Author
Professor Datuk Dr Shamsul Amri is one of Malaysia’s most well-known sociologists. He is the Founding Director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), at Bangi, Selengor, Malaysia. Among his numerous publications is his award-winning book From British to Bumiputera Rule  (Singapore: ISEAS, 1986).

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In the last quarter of 2004, the  Malaysian Cabinet decided to introduce a compulsory course on ‘interethnic relations’ at the university-level with the objective of raising awareness and understanding on the nature and state of ethnic relations in Malaysia amongst the university students from all faculties and programs. This volume offers personal and, at times, outspoken observations by a notable Malaysian sociologist – the General Editor of the ‘interethnic relations module’ – as to the state of current interethnic relations in Malaysia.

About the Author
Professor Dr John Esposito is Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Professor of Islamic Studies and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.  His more than thirty-five books include Who Speaks for Islam; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam; The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; Islam and Politics, Political Islam: Radicalism, Revolution or Reform?; and Islam and Democracy (with Dr. John Voll).

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It is estimated that American Muslims are now not only economically integrated into America, but that in fact the average American Muslim family earns a higher salary than the average American non-Muslim family.  This is in complete contrast with Europe where the vast majority of Muslims arrived, from the 1960s onward, as blue-collar workers.  There is also a considerable difference between how Muslims today live in Europe, and how they live in America.  Dr. Esposito’s lecture provides a profile of American Muslims, who have emerged as a small but considerable factor of US American elections

About the Author
Professor Dr Christian W Troll SJ, one of Germany’s leading scholars on Christian-Muslim relations, is Honorary Professor of the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main.  From 1993-2005, he was a member of the sub-commission for Catholic-Muslim relations, which is part of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue (PCID).  Since 1999, he has been a member of the German Bishops Conference’s sub-commission for inter-religious dialogue.  His latest book is entitled Dialogue and Difference. Clarity in Christian Muslim Relations (Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 2009).

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Professor Troll presents two essays on contemporary interfaith issues.  The first piece, Dialogue as Encounter in Faith: Problems and Prospects, tries to make out what elements are shared by Christianity and Islam and where they differ from each other.  Troll argues that in order to enter into a meaningful dialogue it would be necessary to mark out and understand differences not only in theology but also in worldview.  The second piece, Aspects of Contemporary Christian-Muslim Relations: Lessons from Germany, addresses practical issues of this dialogue.

About the Author
Professor Dr John O. Voll is Professor of Islamic history and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States.  He has published extensively on contemporary Islamic thought and history and also been a past president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).  He has lived in Cairo, Beirut, and Sudan and has traveled widely in the Muslim world.  The second edition of his book, Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World appeared in 1994.  He is co-author (with John L. Esposito) of Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam.

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Globalisation has changed the way we all live.  The fundamental nature of what has been known as the ‘West–Historic Islam Dialogue’, too, is now different from what it was in the days past.  Professor Voll argues that we had been rather slow in recognising the convergence of different kinds of dialogues, such religious of civilisational, for instance.  What is the purpose of these dialogues?  Moreover, whether we wish to call it ‘dialogue’ or ‘conversation’: where is its impact?  This volume features also the transcript of the lively Q&A sessions which followed Professor Voll’s lecture.

By Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia, 2008. pp.vi + 98
ISBN: 9-789673-231416

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By Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia, 2008. pp. ix + 84
ISBN: 9-789673-231416

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