CONTEMPORARY andFUTURE CHALLENGES

MUSLIM SOCIETIES

Turkey Summer School 2016

The programme is designed primarily for graduate students from Turkey and neighbouring countries*who aremajoring in Islamic studies, humanities or the social sciences and who are interested in developing theirknowledge and expertise in the listed topics. The programme will also provide an opportunity for participantsto present and discuss their particular research in workshops. During the course of the programme participantswill receive instruction and interactive engagement. On completion they will receive a certificate of attendancefrom the organisers.

*Note: Students from Europe can apply to attend the IIIT European Summer School in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, 10 -24 August 2016 by writing to: projectmanager@cns.ba

Organised by IIIT London Office • Istanbul University, Theology Faculty • MEDAR, International Foundation of Civilization Research,Turkey • MAHYA, Turkey • MEDIT, Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Turkey • Center for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo in cooperation with Institute for Epistemological Studies Europe, Brussels and The Fairfax Institute, USA

Venue Demirkoy Farm, Kırklareli, (Thrace Region), Turkey

7 – 23 August 2016

Attendance by Registration only. Places are limited.

The programme will be held in English. Those interested, and competent in English,

should complete and submit the application form with an updated C.V. and a letter of

reference from their department or supervisor no later than 17 June 2016.

Please send submissions to:

Hatice Nuriler • Email: turkeyss2016@gmail.com

Images | Demirkoy Farm with map of Thrace Region

Alliance of Civilizations Institute Istanbul University

• Ahmet Alibasic

• Selim Argun

• Hisham Altalib

• Murteza Bedir

• Farhan M. Chak

• Jonathan Brown

• Alev Erkilet

• Bilal Gokkır

• Bekir Karlıga

• Omar Kasule

• Fathi Malkawi

• Yaqub Mirza

• Shuruq Naguib

• Mahmut Salihoglu

• Ziauddin Sardar

• Recep Senturk

• Anas S. al-Shaikh-Ali

• Ermin Sinanovic

• Nazife Sisman

• Lutfi Sunar

SPEAKERS

TOPICS• Approaching the Qur’an and the Sunnah

• Women and the Qur’an: Gender and the Politics of Interpretation

• Islamic Jurisprudence and Maqasid al-Shari‘ah

• Muslim History and Civilization

• Islamic Civilization: Institutions and Foundations

• Contemporary Islamic Thought • Contemporary Western Thought

• Future Studies in Postnormal Times

• Essentials of Faith-Based Business • Five Pillars to Prosperity

• Parent-Child Relations

• Epistemological Bias: Case Studies in Popular Culture

• Methodology of Epistemological Integration: 1) Sources and Means of Islamic Methodology

2) Schools of Islamic Methodologies

• Teaching Health Professional Ethics from Maqasid al-Shariah: A Case Study in

Integration of Knowledge

• Muslim Perceptions of Abrahamic Faiths

• How to Overcome Intellectual Dependency

• Social Injustices and Inequalities in the Muslim World