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Oct 29 at 11:25 PM

Salam Nabil,

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well, I thought wikipedia is more reliable to find out about the qualifications of a

North American academic (we are not dealing with a substantive issue here) than ablog post written by someone who seems to hate the author of award-winning and

best-selling works No God but God and Zealot among others. I don't think he was

lying when he said he was trained in history of religions.

If I say a few years from now that I trained in the study of Qur'an, and someone

objects that I went to the Dept of Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion for my MA

(even if my thesis was an exercise in thematic interpretation of Qur'an), and I worked

with a professor in the Dept of History (even if on the history of Qur'an) for my PhD

and therefore I am not qualified to talk about Qur'an, would that make sense?

I am actually amazed that Iranians and Muslims have taken it upon themselves todiscredit Aslan. His own website talks about his education and appointments, if you

can trust him:

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Journal Articles: Ouyang, D., J. Bartholic and J. Selegean, 2005.Assessing Sediment Loading from Agricultural Croplands in the

Great Lakes Basin. Journal of American Science, 1(2): 14-21.

A Book: Durbin, R., S.R. Eddy, A. Krogh and G. Mitchison, 1999.

Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins

and Nucleic Acids. Cambridge University Press, pp: 356.

A Chapter in a Book: Leach, J., 1993. Impacts of the zebra mussel

(Dreissena polymorpha) on water quality and fish spawning reefs

of Western Lake Erie. In Zebra mussels: biology, impacts and

control, Eds., Nalepa, T. and D. Schloesser. Ann Arbor, MI: Lewis

Publishers, pp: 381-397.A Report: Makarewicz, J.C., T. Lewis and P. Bertram, 1995.

Epilimnetic phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass and species

composition in Lake Michigan, 1983-1992. U.S. EPA Great Lakes

National Program, Chicago, IL. EPA 905-R-95-009.

Conference Proceedings: Stock, A., 2004. Signal Transduction in

Bacteria. In the Proceedings of the 2004 Markey Scholars

Conference, pp: 80-89.

A Thesis: Strunk, J.L., 1991. The extraction of mercury from

sediment and the geochemical partitioning of mercury in sediments

from Lake Superior, M. S. thesis, Michigan State Univ., EastLansing, MI.

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Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is author of the #1 New

York Times BestsellerZealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

He is the founder of AslanMedia.com, an online journal for news and entertainment about the

Middle East and the world, and co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of BoomGen Studios, the

premier entertainment brand for creative content from and about the Greater Middle East.

Aslan's degrees include a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Santa Clara University (Majorfocus: New Testament; Minor: Greek) , a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard

University (Major focus: History of Religions), a PhD in the Sociology of Religions from the

University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa,

where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. An Adjunct Senior Fellow at the

Council on Foreign Relations, he is also a member of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities

and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors of the

Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues; Narrative Four, which

connects people through the exchange of stories; PEN USA, which champions the rights of writers

under siege around the world; and the Levantine Cultural Center, which builds bridges between

Americans and the Arab/Muslim world through the arts.

Aslan's first book is the International Bestseller,No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and

Future of Islam, which has been translated into thirteen languages, and named one of the 100 most

important books of the last decade. He is also the author ofHow to Win a Cosmic War(published in

paperback asBeyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age), as

well as editor of two volumes: Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East,

andMuslims and Jews in America: Commonalties, Contentions, and Complexities.

Born in Iran, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife (author and entrepreneurJessica Jackley) where

he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Cooperating Faculty in the Department of

Religion at the University of California, Riverside. His previous academic positions include the

Wallerstein Distinguished Professor of Religion, Community and Conflict at Drew University in

New Jersey (2012-2013), and Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa(2000-2003).

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

From the internationally bestselling author ofNo god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and

meticulously researched biography that calls into question everything we thought we knew about

Jesus of Nazareth.

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee,

gathering followers to establish what he called the Kingdom of God. The revolutionary

movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured,and executed as a state criminal.

Two decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God.

Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of historys most

influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in

which he lived: first century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish

prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs traipse through the Holy Land, bearing messages from

God. This is the age of zealotrya fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman

occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. And few figures better exemplified this principle

than the charismatic Galilean who defied both the imperial authorities and their allies in the Jewish

religious hierarchy.

Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Aslan explores this diverse and

turbulent age and, in doing so, challenges the conventional portraits of Jesus of Nazareth. Aslan

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describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction: a man of peace who

exhorted his followers to arm themselves with swords; an exorcist and faith healer who urged his

disciples to keep his identity a secret; and ultimately, the seditious King of the Jews whose

promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his brief lifetime. Aslan explores the reasons

why the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual

teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary. And he grapples with the riddle of how

Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about hisdivinity.

Zealotquestions what we thought we knew about Jesus of Nazaretheven as it affirms the radical

and transformative nature of his life and mission. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly

written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a

time, and the birth of a religion.

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

InNo god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islamthe origins and

evolution of the faithin all its beauty and complexity. This updated edition addresses the events of

the past decade, analyzing how they have influenced Islams position in modern culture. Aslan

explores what the popular demonstrations pushing for democracy in the Middle East mean for the

future of Islam in the region, how the Internet and social media have affected Islams evolution, and

how the war on terror has altered the geopolitical balance of power in the Middle East. He also

provides an update on the contemporary Muslim womens movement, a discussion of the

controversy over veiling in Europe, an in-depth history of Jihadism, and a look at how Muslims

living in North America and Europe are changing the face of Islam. Timely and persuasive,No god

but Godis an elegantly written account that explains this magnificent yet misunderstood faith.

Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle

East

The countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle Eastfrom Morocco to Iran, from

Turkey to Pakistanboast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the

literary landscape of this dynamic part of the world has been bound together not by borders and

nationalities, but by a common experience of Western imperialism. Keenly aware of the collected

scars left by a legacy of colonial rule, the acclaimed writer Reza Aslan, with a team of four regionaleditors and seventy-seven translators, cogently demonstrates with Tablet and Pen how literature can,

in fact, be used to form identity and serve as an extraordinary chronicle of the disrupted histories of

the region.

Acting with Words Without Borders, which fosters international exchange through translation and

publication of the worlds finest literature, Aslan has purposefully situated this volume in the

twentieth century, beyond the familiar confines of the Ottoman past, believing that the writers who

have emerged in the last hundred years have not received their full due. This monumental

collection, therefore, of nearly two hundred pieces, including short stories, novels, memoirs, essays

and works of dramamany of them presented in English for the first timefeatures translated

works from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish. Organized chronologically, the volume spans a

century of literaturefrom the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Nobel laureates Naguib

Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, from the great Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis to the grand dame of Urdu

fiction, Ismat Chughtaiconnected by the extraordinarily rich tradition of resplendent cultures that

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have been all too often ignored by the Western canon.

By shifting Americas perception of the Middle Eastern world away from religion and politics,

Tablet and Pen evokes the splendors of a region through the voices of its writers and poets, whose

literature tells an urgent and liberating story. With a wealth of contextual information that places the

writing within the historical, political, and cultural breadth of the region, Tablet & Pen is

transcendent, a book to be devoured as a single sustained narrative, from the first page to the last.

Creating a vital bridge between two estranged cultures, "this is that rare anthology: cohesive,affecting, and informing" (Publishers Weekly).

Includes the writings of Kahlil Gibran, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nzim Hikmet, Ismat Chughtai,

Muhammad Iqbal, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Forugh Farrokhzad, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpnar, Yaar Kemal,

Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis, Ahmad Shamloo, Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk,

and more.

How to Win a Cosmic War

The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly

engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked America on September11, 2001, thought they were fighting in the name of God. According to award-winning writer and

scholar of religions Reza Aslan, the United States, by infusing the War on Terror with its own

religiously polarizing rhetoric, is fighting a similar wara war that cant be won.

The book is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al-Qaida, the Taliban, and like-minded

militants throughout the Muslim world and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism,

Christianity, and Islam. At a time when religion and politics increasingly share the same vocabulary

and function in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world of their

religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie at its root.

How do you win a religious war? By refusing to fight in one.

Featuring new content and updated analysis. Originally published asHow to Win a Cosmic War.

Published in paperback asBeyond Fundamentalism.

Muhammad Abduhs influence in Southeast AsiaAmir, Ahmad N. and Shuriye, Abdi Omar and Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim (2013)Muhammad Abduhs influence in

Southeast Asia. Middle East Journal of Scientific Research (MEJSR), 13. pp. 124-138. ISSN 1990-9233

Abstract

Muhammad Abduh had a remarkably profound and lasting impact in South East Asia. His works and

ideaswerehighly influential in the region with strong repercussion in itspolitical and social landscape. He had

strongly impacted the movements of Muhammadiyah, al-Irshad and Persatuan Islam(Persis). HisTafsir al-

Manar,had powerfully influencedTafsir al-Azhar, Tafsir al-Quran al-Karim, Tafsir al-Quran al-Madjid (Tafsir

al-Nur), Tafsir al-Quran al-Hakim, Tafsir al-Misbah,and Tafsir al-Furqan. The Majallat al-Manarinitiated by

Muhammad Abduhhad significantly inspired many reform oriented works such asjournalal-Munir, al-Imam,

Saudara, al-Ikhwan, al-Dhakhirah al-Islamiyahand Seruan Azhar. Thus, this paper will attemptto surveyAbduhs extensive influence andits impact on Islamic reform (tajdid)in the Malay Archipelago.

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Keywords:

Muhammad Abduh, Southeast Asia, intellectual tradition, modern thought,

islamic reform

Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and

mathematicsAbdullatif, Mohammad Salah Aldin and Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim (2011)Al-Battani contributions in astronomy

and mathematics. In: Contributions of Early Muslim Scientists to Engineering Sciences and related studies.

IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 45-48. ISBN 978-967-418-157-4

Abstract

This chapter is talking about one of the famous and greatest Islamic astronomers and mathematicians around

the world; AI-Battani has great and significant contributions in astronomy and mathematics. In astronomy, he

has astronomical observations for more than forty years. In addition, he did some corrections upon Ptolemy's

results and made some new tables of the Sun and the Moon. Moreover, he determined the length of solar year.

In mathematics, he innovated new relationships in trigonometric, and created a table of cotangents, and made

some formulas in spherical trigonometry

Item Type: Book Section

Additional Information: 5017/21133

Uncontrolled Keywords: Al-Battani, astronomy, mathematics

Islamic mathematicsAzram, Mohammad and Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim (2013)Islamic mathematics. In: The 3rd International

Conference on Engineering Professional Ethics and Education Conference 2013 (ICEPEE '13), 2-4 July, 2013,

Kuala Lumpur.

Abstract

The present doldrums position and state of decadence, internal differences, external aggression (geographical

and ideological), lack of self-confidence and dependence, illiteracy, political instability, economic disaster, lack

of knowledge and wisdom, back benchers in science and technology, education, medicine, trade and business,

banking system and defensive incapability of Muslim World prompted me to look at our principal sources of

inspiration, which are, the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet (SAW), and examples of the enlightened Caliphsand see what is Islams view about seeking knowledge, technology and inventions in general and mathematics

education in particular. We will discuss the nature of mathematics and its scientific status. We will highlight the

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position of mathematics in Islamic classification of knowledge. We will also discuss the current state of

mathematics and future suggestions. We have gathered together some of these impressions; these are all

tentative, nothing final about them, but these are here nonetheless.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Additional

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Islamic mathematics, nature of mathematics, LOGS, status of mathematics, position

of mathematics

The 3rd International Conference on Engineering

Professional Ethics and Education Conference 2013

(ICEPEE'13)

Organized by the Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic

University Malaysia

Theme

Professional Ethics in Engineering Practice for Quality

Service Delivery

Date: 2-4 July 2013

Introduction

3rd International Conference on Engineering

Professional Ethics and Education (ICEPEE13)

Theme:

"Professional Ethics in Engineering Practice forQuality Service Delivery"

As the world move deeper and deeper into the fulfillment of the concept of the Global

Village in which the whole world considered as being closely connected by modern

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telecommunications and as being interdependent economically, socially, and

politically, there is increasing apprehension globally that continual engineering

advancements and uncontrolled scientific research leading to contentious

breakthroughs may not always lead to ethically acceptable results such as in health,

education, tourism, telecommunication and other services. Reflecting on this concern,

the Faculty of Engineering at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) is

organizing the third International Conference on Engineering Professional Ethics and

Education (ICEPEE13).

The 3rd ICEPEE13 focuses on various aspects of engineering professional ethics and

education; sustainable development which incorporates resource conservation andusage that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these

needs can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations as well as

maintaining a balance between material development and responsibility by

addressing a range of issues surrounding ethics and values in relation to daily life

human and conduct. Environmental problems cannot be solved through knowledge

and technology alone except supported adequately with moral conviction and ethical

consciousness on both individual and social levels to motivate people to forgo some

of the short-range profits of this life, and to make personal sacrifices for the common

good. We anticipate the participants will offer significant deliberations on the diverse

topics of the conference and share with the rest of the world their ideas and research

outputs.

CONFERENCE TOPICS Professional Ethics

Professionalism and Ethics in Engineering Education

Religion and Ethics

Bioethics

Philosophy of Engineering Sciences

Ethics for Engineering Based Industries

Scientific Misconduct

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Integrating Ethics into Engineering Education

Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering

Teaching Ethics in Engineering Curriculum

Teaching Technologies and Engineering Education

Engineering Education Policies and Practice

Internationalization and Globalization of Engineering Education

Collaboration between Universities and Industry

E-learning Technologies in Education

Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

Research in Engineering Education

Enhancing Innovation in Research and Education

Sustainability in Engineering Education and Research

Engineering Technology Transfer

Engineering and Society

Engineering and Environment

Engineering Education and Entrepreneurship

Other Related Topics

Authors are requested to submit an abstract (1 page) containing title, name of author(s) and

the institution,

keywords typed in single space on A4 size (210 mm x 297 mm) in MS Word.

Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, method used, key results, contributions to the

state of the art as well as the scope of the work.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding with ISBN

The selected high-quality papers presented at the conference will be considered for

publication in the (ISI indexed

For further inquiries please contact

Dr. Mohammed Elwathig

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Tel.: +603 6196 5749

Fax : +603 6196 4442

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OR

Secretariat ICEPEE'13

Department of Biotechnology EngineeringInternational Islamic University Malaysia

P.O. Box 10

50728 Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Email: icepee@iium.edu.my

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Professional Ethics

Professionalism and Ethics in Engineering Education

Religion and Ethics

Bioethics

Philosophy of Engineering Sciences

Ethics for Engineering Based Industries

Scientific Misconduct

Integrating Ethics into Engineering Education Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering

Teaching Ethics in Engineering Curriculum

Teaching Technologies and Engineering Education

Engineering Education Policies and Practice

Internationalization and Globalization of Engineering Education

Collaboration between Universities and Industry E-learning Technologies in Education

Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

Research in Engineering Education

Enhancing Innovation in Research and Education

Sustainability in Engineering Education and Research

Engineering Technology Transfer

Engineering and Society

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Engineering and Environment

Engineering Education and Entrepreneurship

Other Related Topics

Saya nak beritahu Nabil bahawa Dr Jasser Auda akan datang ke KL pada tahun hadapan atas

jemputan IRF pada bulan June atau July. Dia ada berikan dua bukunya untuk diterjemahkan dan

dilancarkan semasa dia di sini nanti. Saya akan minta Ustaz Adlan untuk terjemahkan satu dan saya

harap Nabil dapat terjemahkan satu lagi.

Saya harap Nabil dapat terjemahkan yang Inggeris dan cuba siapkan paling lewat dalam bulan

March nanti. Mungkin Nabil boleh siapkan masa hujung tahun nie. Usraz Adlan akan terjemahkanyang Bahasa Arab. Esok saya akan call Nabilnabil dan kita bincang nanti.

Jzkk

AFMusa

Janganlah kamu bersedih, sesungguhnya Allah bersama kita.(At-Taubah:40)

Inviting post-graduate students to a half day semina ron research collaboration between the

Department of Usuluddin & Comparative Religion with Doshisha Unversity on 26th

October, from 8.30 am - 1.00 pm. Al-Tobari Meeting room,Level 3, HS Building.

Research presentations from the following researchers

Possibility of the Boundary Between Muslim and Non-Muslim in Non-Islamic Countries:

Th...eological Basis for Interfaith Dialogue by Dr. MATSUYAMA Yohei, University Of

Tokyo, Japan

The Dilemma of the Shafii School on the Issue of the Categorization of Non-Muslims in

Malaysia by Dr. Ahmed Shiozaki Yuki, Doshisha Unversity, Japan.

Muhibah And The Plural Society In Malaysia by Dr. Haslina Binti Ibrahim, KIRKHS,

IIUM

Muslim And Christian Leaders Perspective On Religious Feedom In Malaysia by Ms.

Roslizawati Bint Mohd Ramly, IIUM

Governing Alterity: al-Brn, Ma md and al-Hind by Mr. Shafiq Flynn, IIUM

meals are provided and participation is free of charge.

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See you there in sha Allah. Wslm

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