05-08 January, 2016: Workshop on Textbook Writing on Islamic Economics and Business Studies, Universitas Darul Salam (UNIDA) Gontor. Resource persons – Prof. Dr. Dato Jamil Osman, Prof. Dr. Mohamad Hamid and Prof. Dr. Norma Md Saad.

Workshop on “Islamization of Knowledge, Curriclum Reform and Textbook Writing in the Islamic Economics” was held at UNIDA (Universitas Darussalam) Gontor, January 6 and 7, 2016 and officiated by the Rector of UNIDA Brother Prof. Dr.Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi.

Dato Dr. Jamil Osman, Prof. M Abdul Hamid and Dr. Hamid Fahmy Zarkasyi the Deputy Rector 1 of UNIDA, delivered the very fundamental and substantial matters on the Islamization, Curriculum Reform and the Need for Textbook Writing in the Islamic Universities.

UNIDA and Pondok Modern Gontor have a deep and long root of Islamization and Integration of Knowledge since its establishment in 1926 (Pondok Modern Gontor) and in 1963 (UNIDA). The discussion was concentrated on how to implement the Islamization of the different disciplines in the contemporary context.

The afternoon session is a workshop by Prof. Dr. Norma Md Saad on the Curriculum Reform in the Islamic Economics and Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdul Hamid on the Curriculum Reform in the Business and Textbook Writing. In the late afternoon, a special a workshop on the Textbook Writing and follow up program, facilitated by Dato Wira Dr. Jamil Osman and me. The workshop was begun by the report from each departments of the Faculty of Islamic Economics on their achievement on their Islamization of the Curriculum.