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Roundtable Discussion on: Religion and Geopolitics: Conflict Resolution
Date: Saturday, 21st March 2015 Time: 230PM – 530PM Venue: Conference Room, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-religion-and-geopolitics-conflict-resolution-tickets-16027584938 The importance of religious terrorism in contemporary geopolitics has forced policymakers and academics to rethink the taken-for-granted understanding of geopolitics […]
Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat Dalam Jalur Perjuangan “Political Islam”
Eulogi atau Belasungkawa ini khas buat almarhum Tuan Guru Dato’ Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (10 Januari 1931- 12 Februari 2015). Tanggal malam Jumaat serta disemadikan pada penguhulu segala hari, merupakan penyudah kehidupan yang baik (husnul khatimah) bagi insan istimewa […]
Prinsip Pemerintahan dalam Islam Menurut Muhammad Asad – Bahagian II
Prinsip Keadilan dan Maqasid Syar’iyyah “Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought” [John Rawls, A Theory of Justice] “Keadilan adalah keutamaan pertama bagi institusi sosial, sebagaimana kebenaran bagi sistem pemikiran” [John Rawls, […]
Prinsip Pemerintahan dalam Islam Menurut Muhammad Asad – Bahagian I
“If our present leaders but listen to the people’s heartbeat they are bound to realise that what the common man desires is not merely a state in which Muslims would have greater economic facilities that they have now, but a […]
Merawat Ancaman Konservatif Agama
Democracy and pluralism are a basket. Is this basket universal? What is the view of Islam on this issue? In the world at large, as well as within each civilization, there is a conflict between those who have one vision […]
Muhammad Asad dan Terjemahan Sahih al-Bukhari: Suatu Analisis Awal – Bahagian II
Pengantar Cetakan Pertama (1938) KARYA yang kini dikemukakan kepada khalayak ini merakamkan bab-bab sejarah dari sebuah kompilasi hadith yang terpenting, Kitab al-Jami‘ al-Sahih oleh Imam Muhammad ibn Isma‘il al-Bukhari, dan memaparkan permulaan wahyu kerasulan dan tahun-tahun terawal Islam hingga dan […]
Reading Session: John Rawls dan Teori Keadilan Liberal (Bhg. III)
Date: Sunday, 15 Feb 2015 Time: 11PM – 1PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-session-john-rawls-dan-teori-keadilan-liberal-bhg-3-tickets-15622455184 John Rawls merupakan salah seorang filasuf kontemporari dalam tradisi Barat yang telah mencetuskan revolusi dalam falsafah politik kontemporari. Menerusi penerbitan A Theory of Justice (TJ) […]
Muhammad Asad dan Terjemahan Sahih al-Bukhari: Suatu Analisis Awal – Bahagian I
Tulisan ini menganalisa usaha dan sumbangan al-‘Allamah Muhammad Asad (1900-1992) dalam menterjemah dan mensyarah kitab Sahih al-Bukhari oleh Imam Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughirah ibn Bardizbah al-Ju‘fi al-Bukhari (194-256/810-870). Karya ini telah diterbitkan pada tahun […]
Roundtable discussion on: The Politics of Civil Society
Date: Saturday, 10 January 2014 Time: 230PM – 530PM Venue: Conference Room, The University of Nottingham, Level 2 Chulan Tower, Jalan Conlay, KL Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-the-politics-of-civil-society-tickets-15057493368 John Locke (1632-1704) proposed in his Second Treatise of Government a social contract theory of government […]
Kata Pengantar Risalah al-Qur’an: Muhammad Asad, Risalah Al-Qur’an, Dan Dunia Melayu
Tajuk tulisan ini ingin menjelaskan keterkaitan antara Muhammad Asad (2 Juli 1900-23 Februari 1992), Risalah al-Qur’an (The Message of the Qur’an), magnum opus Asad, dan Dunia Melayu sebagai pembaca utama dari terjemahan karya agung ini. Melalui terjemahan ini diharapkan gagasan-gagasan […]
Roundtable Discussion on: Rethinking Political Islam
Date: Saturday, 13 December 2014 Time: 230PM-530PM Venue: Conference Room, The University of Nottingham, Level 2 Chulan Tower, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-rethinking-political-islam-tickets-14895416592 Political Islam is generally linked to Islamism. Although the definition is sometimes blurred, it generally refers to […]
Iran’s optimism over the failure of negotiations
Although Tehran’s nuclear talks with the P5+1 group ended with no concrete agreement between the sides, various actors in Iranian politics and media are painting the negotiations in a generally positive light, despite differing visions of future prospects for Western-Iranian […]
Roundtable Discussion on “Is Islam A Religion of Peace?”
Date: Sunday, 7 December 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Nottingham University, Level 2, Chulan Tower, Kuala Lumpur Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-is-islam-a-religion-of-peace-tickets-14659309389 The insurgence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or simply the Islamic State (IS) group in the Middle […]
Public Intellectual Talk: Developing A Philosophy of Pluralism
Date: Tuesday, 9 December 2014 Time: 2-5PM Venue: Wawasan Open University, Georgetown, Penang Registration: Click here to register Philosophy of pluralism to be a norm in the society requires a favorable environment for its members to work on certain personal qualities. […]
Reading Session on “Has Political Islam Failed?”
Date: Sunday 7 December Time: 4PM – 6PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-session-on-has-political-islam-failed-tickets-14659359539 The “Arab Spring’ that opened a door for Islamists to come to power through ballot boxes posed a serious challenge to the ideology behind those […]
Symposium on Countering Violent Extremism
Date: Saturday 6 December 2014 Time: 9 AM – 5PM Venue: Studio R, Renaissance Hotel, KL Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-countering-violent-extremism-tickets-14659341485 Islamism is thought to be a product of the failure of authoritarian nationalist governments and the socio-economic imbalance that has been exacerbated by […]
Loss of Ennahda a Lesson to Muslim Democrats
Perhaps the most interesting event that has happened in the Muslim world recently is the rise and fall of Hizbun Nahdah or The Renaissance Party of Tunisia. To many Islamists around the world today, Ennahda is a model of a […]
Undang-undang Negara dan Paksaan Agama – Bahagian II
Negara dan Pelaksanaan Undang-undang “Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all”[1] [Thomas Hobbes dalam Leviathan] Pelaksanaan undang-undang dan proses pemerintahan negara adalah proses paksaan, sekurang-kurangnya secara prinsipnya. Tanpa wujud paksaan […]
Undang-undang Negara dan Paksaan Agama – Bahagian I
“Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials […]
Roundtable discussion on: The Threat of Fundamentalism in this Century
Date: Saturday, 18 October 2014 Time: 3PM – 5PM Venue: Conference Room, The University of Nottingham, Level 2 Chulan Tower, Jalan Conlay, KL Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-the-threat-of-fundamentalism-in-this-century-tickets-13657946285 How can one rationally explain the rise of Islamic fundamentalism today? Why in the age of […]
