Forum on ‘Muslim world’s preparedness in facing the challenges of 21st Century
Speaker: Dr Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti BA (Queen’s), MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MSIEPM
Host: PMIUM
Date: Monday, August 17, 2009
Time: 9:30pm – 11:30pm
Location:Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
About the speaker:
Dr Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti BA (Queen’s), MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MSIEPM – also known as Shaykh Afifi[1][2] – is KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies,[3] and Islamic Centre Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford,[4] and holds a lectureship in World Religions at Worcester College. He is the first ever Malay to be appointed to such a position in this world famous University.[5]
Dr al-Akiti completed his DPhil in Medieval Arabic Philosophy from Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar in 2008. His thesis identifies and systematically considers for the first time a group of philosophical writings, called the Madnun corpus, attributed to Islam’s greatest theologian, al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111) – his discoveries are based on a painstaking survey of nearly 50 medieval Arabic manuscripts. Besides acquainting scholars with this remarkable new body of source material, his three-volume study presents a critical edition of the most advanced and technical work of this corpus, the manual on metaphysics and natural philosophy called the Major Madnun.[6][7]
Dr al-Akiti, who comes from Malaysia, is trained as a theologian and philologist in both the Islamic and Western traditions: educated originally at the feet of the ulema of the Muslim world, he subsequently received a First Class degree in Scholastic Philosophy and History of Science from the Queen’s University Belfast, where he was awarded various scholarships to read for his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Oxford. His areas of expertise are Islamic theology, philosophy and science.[8]
In 2009, along with Professor Muhammad Abdel Haleem and the IIIT, Dr al-Akiti was shortlisted for the Annual UK Muslim Awards, in one of its 15 coveted Awards for Excellence, the Allama Iqbal Award for Creativity in Islamic Thought.[9]
p/s – The topic basically will be discussed in the field of theology, the collision between Islamic and Western tradition and the preparation to the Muslim community especially the young generation in facing the new world order of politics, capitalism, secularism, neo-colonialism and war on ideology, from our Islamic perspective. Feel free to join us!
3 Comments
August 14, 2009 at 1:32 am
salam bro. it seems that your automatically generated possibly related post includes something that is not appropriate.
August 14, 2009 at 3:28 am
Announcement~ Dr Aififi Al-Akiti bersetuju untuk datang berjumpa dan menjadi speaker kepada forum ini. Semoga rakan2 dapat meluang masa untuk bersama speaker yg dibawa khas di Oxford ini. Dr afifi maklumkan dia tidak akan terlalu memberi fokus kepada tajuk ttpi lebih kepada perbincangan mengenai tradisi ilmu dunia Islam dan Barat disamping memberi motivasi dan perkongsian dengan mahasiswa di Malaysia.
*Dr Afifi kata bahasa Melayu dia dah “karat”, so beliau akan deliver dlm Bahasa Inggeris.
August 14, 2009 at 3:32 am
to Hilman – I don know how’s that particular ‘thing’ came out?. n that was not under my control.. Ok la, I try to fix it..
*Bro Hilman, do come to our program. Dr. Afifi Al-Akiti is a ‘Malaysian-trained-theologian’. He is a wonderful man… seriously I said. LOL.