IIIT East and SEA Office conducted its Annual
Coordination Meeting from February 2nd to 5th, in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia to coordinate programs and activities in this region for 2017
and beyond. The meeting was attended by Prof. Dr. Omar Hassan Kasule, Secretary
General of IIIT, Prof. Emeritus Dato’ Wira Dr. Jamil Osman, Regional
Representative for East and SEA and Country Representatives from Japan, South
Korea, China, Thailand, Brunei, Philippine, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The Meeting deliberated on the two main
focus areas of the Institute which are Research and Long Term Grants, and
Intensive Program in Islamic Studies.
The Research and Long Term Grants calls for scholars and researches to
conduct research in the following priority subject areas:
1. Epistemological
and Decolonization of Knowledge
2. Renewal
of Islamic Thought
3. New
Methodologies in the Study of the Quran and Sunnah
4. Maqasid
al-Shariah
5. Islamic
Philosophy, Spirituality and Literary Criticism
6. Reform
of Education
7. Social
Science Studies
The Intensive Program in Islamic Studies
is meant to give students a broad overview of Islam, while exposing them to
major ideas that IIIT was either influenced by or has developed within
contemporary Islamic thought. The core courses include:
1. Methodologies
in Integration of Knowledge
2. Approaching
the Qur’an
3. Approaching
the Sunnah
4. Foundation
of Belief, Knowledge, and Ethics
5. Islamic
Jurisprudence and Maqasid
6. Muslim
History and Civilization
7. Contemporary
Islamic Thought
All Country Representatives strongly
supported the two focus areas and committed to implement the programs and
activities in their respective countries. It is our hope that within three
years we will see a flourishing of published research materials on Islamization
and Integration of Knowledge, and the emerging of young scholars working in the
Islamization fields.
The delegation also took the opportunity
to pay a courtesy visit to H.E Youk Ngouy, Deputy Minister, Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sport to brief on roles of IIIT and to affirm IIIT
supports to the establishment of Cambodia International Islamic College. The
delegation was invited to visit Al-Rahman school managed by the Cambodian
Muslim Intellectual Alliance (CMIA). The delegation was also invited to visit
Al-Rahmah International, Cambodia office. The delegation also visited the Tuol
Sleng Genocide Museum, a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The site is
a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21)
by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.
The meeting was a successful event where
Representatives have renewed their commitments to implement and coordinate all
programs and activities in this region. We would like to thank Hon. Farid
Hossein, IIIT Representative in Cambodia and his team members for their hard
work to ensure the success of the meeting.
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