Islamic Area Studies in Kuala Lumpur
This weekend, I am attending Islamic Area Studies International Conference at Nikko Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. This conference is running for 3 days, 22-24 November 2008, under the theme New Horizons in Islamic Area Studies: Islamic Scholarship Across Cultures and Continents.
It is a privilage as well to be asked and selected to write a paper on Madrasah, with two other collegues, Professor Dr. Ahmad Hidayat and Dr. Luqman Hj. Abdullah. We decided the title of the paper as Madrasah System in Malaysia: Its Contribution and Challenges.
Today, 23 Nov 2008, Professor Hidayat lead our team to present the paper in a Plenary session, along with another presenter, a female professor from Japan who discussed about women seminaries in Iran and Pakistan. In that session, there was Professor Ecklemen form USA, acted as discussant for the papers.
The discussant was pleased with the presentation by Professor Hidayat, mentioning of the good introduction of the paper to link with the historical development of madrasah by looking at middle east, particularly Makkah and al-Azhar establishment that influenced madrasah curriculum in Malaysia.
Other than that, the first day of conference is quite ok, although I found that it was not quite a deep discussion on topics that have been presented. However, in the second day, the discussions were more details, going into depth of each topics. I enjoy the papers on this second day.
Tomorrw is the last day for the conference, which I may missed papers in the morning due to other commitment at University of Malaya. I hope to be able to come during the afternoon, even though I noticed that the afternoon session will be the posters presentation. Nevertheless, I reckon that the meeting with other scholars worldwide is more important in this respect, so as to establish long term relation with them for academic purposes.
As for today, I quite impressed with scholars from Japan, who are able to speak fluent Arabic than English, and able to present a good selection of papers. I must congratulate them on their effort. I think, Malaysia can look forward to have close tie with them who are now on due course to enhance Islamic Area Studies programme in Japan as well as to the rest of the world.
I have indeed briefly mentioned (or rather I whispered) to Depute VC last Friday during his presence at Academy of Islamic Studies about sending students to pursue PhD in Islamic Studies in Japan...; and it seems that this idea need further thought on how it can be materialised.
As for now, just concentrate on helping the department ... I managed to speak to Professor Humphreys on the possibility for him to become an Advisory member for my department's academic journal. It looks like there is positive linkage in the future.
It is a privilage as well to be asked and selected to write a paper on Madrasah, with two other collegues, Professor Dr. Ahmad Hidayat and Dr. Luqman Hj. Abdullah. We decided the title of the paper as Madrasah System in Malaysia: Its Contribution and Challenges.
Today, 23 Nov 2008, Professor Hidayat lead our team to present the paper in a Plenary session, along with another presenter, a female professor from Japan who discussed about women seminaries in Iran and Pakistan. In that session, there was Professor Ecklemen form USA, acted as discussant for the papers.
The discussant was pleased with the presentation by Professor Hidayat, mentioning of the good introduction of the paper to link with the historical development of madrasah by looking at middle east, particularly Makkah and al-Azhar establishment that influenced madrasah curriculum in Malaysia.
Other than that, the first day of conference is quite ok, although I found that it was not quite a deep discussion on topics that have been presented. However, in the second day, the discussions were more details, going into depth of each topics. I enjoy the papers on this second day.
Tomorrw is the last day for the conference, which I may missed papers in the morning due to other commitment at University of Malaya. I hope to be able to come during the afternoon, even though I noticed that the afternoon session will be the posters presentation. Nevertheless, I reckon that the meeting with other scholars worldwide is more important in this respect, so as to establish long term relation with them for academic purposes.
As for today, I quite impressed with scholars from Japan, who are able to speak fluent Arabic than English, and able to present a good selection of papers. I must congratulate them on their effort. I think, Malaysia can look forward to have close tie with them who are now on due course to enhance Islamic Area Studies programme in Japan as well as to the rest of the world.
I have indeed briefly mentioned (or rather I whispered) to Depute VC last Friday during his presence at Academy of Islamic Studies about sending students to pursue PhD in Islamic Studies in Japan...; and it seems that this idea need further thought on how it can be materialised.
As for now, just concentrate on helping the department ... I managed to speak to Professor Humphreys on the possibility for him to become an Advisory member for my department's academic journal. It looks like there is positive linkage in the future.
Labels: Asia Europe Institute, Islam in China, Islam in Japan, Islamic Area Studies, Islamic Studies, Japan
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