Muslim cultures of the Indian Ocean

International Conference

The Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

Aga Khan University, London

۱۸-۲۱ September 2018

Rationale:
Over the past couple of decades, significant new research has been undertaken across East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent leading to fresh insights on a number of facets of Indian Ocean Cultures. Our objective is to study these multiple facets through the prism of one religion, Islam.  How did one religion managed to unite different people from different area with different cultures?  Since the Prophet, Islam was a mercantile religion par excellence and was favored through trade all over the Indian Ocean. As it was defined by Fernand Braudel for the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean became a “Muslim Mare Nostrum”.

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Seminar on Indian Publisher’s Role in Promoting Persian Language and Literature
The first international seminar on ‘Role of Newal Kishore in Promotion of Persian language and Literature across the World’ will be held on February 21-22, 2017 in New Delhi.

Indian publisher Munshi Newal Kishore (1836-1895) published over 5,000 books in Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, English, Marathi, Persian, Punjabi, Pashto, Sanskrit and Urdu in 1858-1885.

To highlight the significant role of this cultural figure in dissemination of Persian language, the Book City Institute, in cooperation with the University of Delhi and the Iranian Embassy in India, will run a two day seminar in February 2017.
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Call for Research Papers
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
April 3-5, 2017
Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE)
Doha, Qatar
Background Paper
The  20th  century  has  been  called  the  century  of  the  gene, reaching  a  pinnacle  moment  at the beginning  of  the 21st century. This  was on  26 June 2000 when  the  US  president Bill Clinton highlighted the  successful  completion  of  the first  ever survey  of  the entire  human  genome, epitomized  in the  Human  Genome  Project.  This  breathtaking incident  was  compared  to  the “moonshot”, equivalent to the meticulous planning through to the successful landing of humans on the moon and to the splitting of the atom. In contrast, some critical voices have cautioned against the unfounded  or  exaggerated  genomic exceptionalism represented  in a sometimes pervasive tendency to hype up the impact of genomics, especially with regards to healthcare. Both the rise of genomics as a research field and the intense debate surrounding its potential impact on healthcare have  generated an unstoppable flow  of  deep  and  complex  ethical  questions,  which  we have incorporated  here under  the broad heading of  the “Genome  Question”, referred  to  henceforth  as the GQ.
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Deadline: August 16, 2016