A two-day National Seminar on “Islam and Modern Challenges” was organised by the Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University last week. A number of important papers were presented by various scholars, Ulema, and research scholars hailing from various Universities and seminaries of India such as Islam and its Relation with Globalisation, Democracy, Nation States, Human Rights, Rationalism, Modernism and Post-modernism, Interfaith Dialogue, Pluralism, Islam and the Ills of Modernity, Muslim Women and Hijab and other modern issues having direct concern with Islam and Muslim Ummah.
The seminar yielded a memorable array of papers that furnished encouraging and insightful scholarship that would contribute greatly to the existing knowledge, research works and observations of Muslim scholars, thinkers and budding researchers on this theme.
Spread over 6 business sessions, the seminar was inaugurated by the Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor, Prof. PK Abdul Azis while Prof. M Nejatullah Siddiqi addressed the programme as Chief Guest.
Prof. Zafarul Islam, Chairman Department of Islamic Studies presented the welcome address. Prof. Islam delivered an introductory speech and made an overview of the various achievements of the department during the session 20102011.
A total of 53 research papers including 3 power-point presentations (27 by various professors, teachers, and other dignitaries from across the country, and from the different departments and faculties of AMU, 25 by research scholars and by some PG Students, including some outstation research scholars as well) were presented in 6 business sessions on the above mentioned themes.