Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists

The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists was held Rubi‘ul Awwal 18-20, 1409/October 28-30, 1988, at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. “Development of Contemporary Islamic Thought: Theory and Application” was the theme that attracted over 120 participants fro...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:43b4fb2b5abf435ab9acecd980160aae2021-12-02T17:47:11ZSeventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists10.35632/ajis.v5i2.27282690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/43b4fb2b5abf435ab9acecd980160aae1988-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2728https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists was held Rubi‘ul Awwal 18-20, 1409/October 28-30, 1988, at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. “Development of Contemporary Islamic Thought: Theory and Application” was the theme that attracted over 120 participants from United States, Canada, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Trinidad and India, as well as numerous student “drop-ins”. The conference broke new grounds and topped all former annual conferences, in the size of meetings, quality, and diversity of presentations, and set a number of records that may stand for many years to come. Most of the discussions were scholarly and conducted in a spirit of good humoroften disagreeing without being disagreeable. The program included 26 papers, in addition to special sessions. Although the sessions were spread over three days, as many as 16 sessions had to be held concurrently to accommodate the participants. Topical divisions of concurrent sessions were successful at holding "session-hopping“ to a minimum. The array of papers covered almost all subdisciplines and current research orientation in Islamic social sciences. Abstracts of the papers given in the program were helpful in planning and choosing which session to attend. After the sessions, there was an array of opportunities to widen one’s experience. The banquet, and the dinners and lunches at Iowa State University Memorial Union allowed for a relaxed, yet stimulating, setting. Those who preferred more tension in their leisure, continued their discussions in small groups. For the first time, the conference began with a session on “Western and Muslim Women” chaired by Salahuddin Malik of the State University of New York, Brockport. Sharifa Alkhateeb of the International Institute of Islamic Thought surveyed “Feminist Issues and Their Implication for Islamic Women,” explaining how Western feminist values were incapable of successful transplantation to Muslim Societies. She pointed out the existing numerous values in Islam while recognizing the need for social change of traditional non-Islamically based mores. Vanessa Khadija Payton, of Morgan State University, discussed “Polygamy and American Muslims.” Her paper focused on the cultural indoctrination of American male and female Muslims and the practicality of polygamy amongst these groups. Sadekka Arabi of the University of California, Berkeley, presented her wellreseamhed paper Western ... Mushtaqur RahmanInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 5, Iss 2 (1988)
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Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists
description The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists was held Rubi‘ul Awwal 18-20, 1409/October 28-30, 1988, at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. “Development of Contemporary Islamic Thought: Theory and Application” was the theme that attracted over 120 participants from United States, Canada, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Trinidad and India, as well as numerous student “drop-ins”. The conference broke new grounds and topped all former annual conferences, in the size of meetings, quality, and diversity of presentations, and set a number of records that may stand for many years to come. Most of the discussions were scholarly and conducted in a spirit of good humoroften disagreeing without being disagreeable. The program included 26 papers, in addition to special sessions. Although the sessions were spread over three days, as many as 16 sessions had to be held concurrently to accommodate the participants. Topical divisions of concurrent sessions were successful at holding "session-hopping“ to a minimum. The array of papers covered almost all subdisciplines and current research orientation in Islamic social sciences. Abstracts of the papers given in the program were helpful in planning and choosing which session to attend. After the sessions, there was an array of opportunities to widen one’s experience. The banquet, and the dinners and lunches at Iowa State University Memorial Union allowed for a relaxed, yet stimulating, setting. Those who preferred more tension in their leisure, continued their discussions in small groups. For the first time, the conference began with a session on “Western and Muslim Women” chaired by Salahuddin Malik of the State University of New York, Brockport. Sharifa Alkhateeb of the International Institute of Islamic Thought surveyed “Feminist Issues and Their Implication for Islamic Women,” explaining how Western feminist values were incapable of successful transplantation to Muslim Societies. She pointed out the existing numerous values in Islam while recognizing the need for social change of traditional non-Islamically based mores. Vanessa Khadija Payton, of Morgan State University, discussed “Polygamy and American Muslims.” Her paper focused on the cultural indoctrination of American male and female Muslims and the practicality of polygamy amongst these groups. Sadekka Arabi of the University of California, Berkeley, presented her wellreseamhed paper Western ...
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