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International Conference on The Muslim Ummah Synthesizing a New Paradigm, Analyzing Modern Challenges
Center for Islam and Global Affairs, Istanbul Zaim University Sponsor and Organizer
October 8-10, 2017 Istanbul, Turkey
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
College of Islamic Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
Academic Co-Sponsors
Conference Program
CIGA CENTER FOR ISLAM AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS
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Center for Islam and Global Affairs [CIGA]
CIGA is an independent, nonprofit, research and public policy institution based in
Istanbul, Turkey, and affiliated with Istanbul Zaim University. Its mission is “To
conduct high quality research and analysis, educate the public and policy makers,
train experts, and propose novel ideas and policy recommendations regarding
global policies and relations impacting the Islamic world, and the development
and progress of Muslim societies.”
ZÜ: yi Bir Eitim Sözü The Promise of Great Education
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Conference Topics and Objectives
Ever since the fall of the Ottoman Empire almost a century ago and the emergence
of the nation-state system throughout the Islamic world as its new international
order, the concept of the “Muslim Ummah” has lost its historical meaning as many
scholars and academics from many disciplines have been debating its relevance
and practical manifestations in today’s world. Through a series of presentations
and panel discussions this conference will examine the concept of the Muslim
Ummah and propose a new paradigm within the context of the modern world. It
will also explore some important challenges facing Muslim societies, including
the question of political legitimacy in Muslim majority countries; the role of
Islamic Jurisprudence (Shari’ah) in modern Muslim societies; the challenges
of sectarianism, nationalism, secularism, and civilian rule; socio-economic
challenges including women empowerment, poverty, unemployment, production,
development, financing, capital, and globalization; and the contemporary
contentious relationship between the Islamic World and global powers in a world
infused by hegemony, wars, terrorism, racism, and Islamophobia.
The objective of the conference is to bring noted scholars and academics in
their fields in order to discuss these important topics. The scholars will engage
in thoughtful discussions regarding the reexamination of important topics
facing Muslim societies, and explore some of the major strategic, political, and
socioeconomic challenges, as well as the internal fault lines and external threats
facing the Islamic world and appropriate responses. The panels will not only
analyze these topics but also attempt to present novel and practical solutions to
difficult problems.
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Chair: Dr. Mohammed Moussa, IZU
Introductory Remarks: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bulut, Rector, IZU
Dr. Emad Shahin, Dean, College of Islamic Sciences,
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
Dr. Jonathan Brown, Director, ACMCU,
Georgetown University, Wash. DC
the Concept and Developing a New Paradigm
IZU ISEFAM Auditorium
Chair & Discussant: Dr. Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University in Doha, Qatar
Speakers:
Dr. Selim Argun, Istanbul Üniversitesi
Evaluating the Current State of the Muslim Ummah
Dr. Arif Ersoy, IZU
A New Paradigm for the Ummah at the Epistemological Level
Dr. Hussein ElKazzaz, Insan Center for Civilizational Studies, Istanbul
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9:30-11:20 AM Session II: Political Legitimacy in the Muslim World
IZU ISEFAM Auditorium
Speakers:
Understanding the Historical Model for Political Legitimacy in the Muslim World
Dr. Ovamir Anjum, University of Toledo
Current State of Affairs and Models across the Muslim World
Dr. Dalia Fahmy, Long Island University
Developing Main Features for Political Legitimacy
Dr. Emad Shahin, Dean, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
11:20-11:50 AM Break
11:50-1:50 PM Session III: Global Challenges to the Muslim World IZU ISEFAM Auditorium Chair: Jamal ElShayyal, Al Jazeera English Speakers: The Challenge of Hegemony Dr. Richard Falk, University of California- Santa Barbara The Challenge of Wars and Terrorism Dr. Flynt Leverett, Penn State University The Challenge of Islamophobia Dr. John Esposito, Georgetown University The Challenge of Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel Dr. Sami Al-Arian, IZU
1:50-3:00 PM Lunch
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3:10-5:00 PM Session IV: Re-defining the Role of Islamic Law in the Modern
World IZU ISEFAM Auditorium
Speakers:
Understanding the Historical Model of Muslim Societies Under Islamic Law
Dr. Jonathan A Brown, Georgetown University
Is the Modern State Compatible with the Historical Model of the Islamic State?
Dr. Asifa Quraishi-Landes, University of Wisconsin
Developing a New Model for the Coexistence of Modern State with Islamic Law
Dr. Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University and College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin
Khalifa University
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 9:30-11:30 AM Session V: Socioeconomic Challenges in the Muslim World IZU ISEFAM Auditorium Chair & Discussant: Dr. Abd Al-Fattah El-Awaisi, IZU Speakers: Dealing with Social Justice, Poverty and Productivity in Muslim Societies Dr. Ahmet Faruk Aysan, ehir University Globalization and Economic Development in the Islamic World Dr. Mehmet Bulut, IZU The Challenges of the Empowerment of Women and Youth in Muslim Societies Dr. Ömer Çaha, IZU Dr. Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University
11:30-12:00 PM Break
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12:00-2:00 PM Session VI: Understanding Fault Lines within the Muslim
Ummah IZU ISEFAM Auditorium
Speakers:
The Challenge of Sectarianism: The Future of Sunni-Shi’a Relations
Dr. Nader Hashemi, University of Denver
The Challenge of the Ideological Divide: Secular vs. Religious
Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat, Ibn Haldun University
The Challenge of Nationalism
The Challenge of Military-Civilian Relations
Dr. Abdelfattah Mady, Alexandria University
2:00-3:15 PM Lunch
5:00-7:00 PM Closing Session: The Muslim Ummah in Today’s World
Yahya Kemal Beyatl Convention Center, Küçükçekmece
Chair: Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Center for Islam and Global Affairs, IZU
I. The Meaning of the Muslim Ummah in the Modern World
Dr. Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University and College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin
Khalifa University
II. The Muslim Ummah: Challenges and Response
Dr. Ibrahim Kalin, Spokesperson and Senior Advisor to President of Turkey
III. Towards Defining a New Relationship between the Islamic World and Global
Powers
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Biographies of Participants
Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures in the
School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Her research interests include Islamic religious and political thought (both
modern and pre-modern); Islamic intellectual history; Qur’an and hadith;
and gender in Islam. She is the author and editor of seven books, including
Contemporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); the award-
winning Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought
(Oxford University Press, 2013), which is currently being translated into Baha
Indonesian; and The First Muslims: History and Memory (OneWorld Publications
2008), which was translated into Turkish in 2014. She is a member of the
Board of Directors of the American Academy of Religion and was previously the
Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the College of William
and Mary (2012) and a fellow with the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE),
Cairo and the American Research Institute of Turkey (ARIT), Istanbul. Professor
Afsaruddin’s research has been funded by grants awarded, among others, by
the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New
York, which named her a Carnegie Scholar in 2005. Her edited volume Oxford
Handbook of Islam and Women is forthcoming from Oxford University Press
(2019).
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Abdullah Al-Arian is an assistant professor of History at Georgetown University’s
School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his doctorate in History from
Georgetown University in 2011, where he wrote his dissertation on the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt during the decade of the 1970s. Dr. Al-Arian received his
Master’s degree in Sociology of Religion from the London School of Economics,
and his BA in Political Science from Duke University. He is co-editor of the Critical
Currents in Islam page on the Jadaliyya e-zine. He received several awards that
allowed him to conduct field research in many countries. His first book, entitled
Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt, was published
by Oxford University Press in 2014. He is currently writing a book that explores
the relationship between nationalism and Islamism or the tendency of Islamic
political movements to adopt the nation-state paradigm in pursuit of their
activist mission in six Arab countries. Professor Al-Arian teaches introductory
courses on the history of the Middle East, as well as advanced topics courses
covering the history of modern Egypt, Islamic social movements, Islamic law
and society, and the history of US policy towards the Middle East. He is also a
frequent contributor to the Al-Jazeera English network as well as other websites
and publications and has been a frequent commentator on many media outlets
around the world.
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Sami A. Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA)
and public affairs professor at Istanbul Zaim University. He received his PhD in
Computer Engineering in 1986, and was a tenured academic in the US for many
years receiving several teaching awards and grants, as well as having over forty
publications to his credit. During his four decades in the US (1975-2015), Dr. Al-
Arian founded numerous institutions and publications in the fields of education,
research, religion and interfaith, as well as civil and human rights. He was a
prolific speaker across many US campuses, especially on Palestine, Islam and
the West, and Civil Rights. In 2001, he was named by Newsweek the “premiere
civil rights activist” in the US for his efforts to repeal the use of Secret Evidence
in immigration courts. In 2012, he was profiled by historians of the Encyclopedia
of American Dissidents as one of only three Muslims in the US out of 152 US
dissidents and prisoners of conscience in the past century included in the two-
volume series (along with Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali). His US story was
featured in 2007 in the award-winning documentary “US vs. Al-Arian,” and in
2016 in the book “Being Palestinian.” Dr. Al-Arian has written dozens of articles
that were translated to many languages focusing on US foreign policy, Palestine,
and the Arab Spring phenomena. His book of poetry on Spirituality, Palestine,
and Human Rights Conspiring Against Joseph was published in 2004.
Session III: Monday October 9 11:50-1:50 PM
Closing Session: Tuesday October 10 5:00-7:00 PM
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Ovamir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Toledo.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Intellectual History in the Department of
History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Masters in Social Sciences from the
University of Chicago, and Masters in Computer Science from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Politics, Law and Community in Islamic
Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is near-
completing a decade-long project to translate a popular Islamic spiritual and
theological classic, Madarij al-Salikin (Ranks of Divine Seekers) by Ibn al-Qayyim
(d. 1351).
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Selim Argun has been an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Divinity at Istanbul
University since 2013. He completed his BA in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, MA
in Johannesburg, South Africa (Magna Cum Laude), and PhD at McGill University
in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Argun is a specialist on Islamic Religious Endowments
(Waqf) and has published widely on the subject. He has also conducted research
in the fields of Ottoman Africa and Elite Conflict Theories. He published his first
book in 2014 titled Elite Configurations and Clusters of Power: Ulema, Waqf and
Ottoman State (1789-1839). In 2017, he was appointed as the Director General
of International Relations for the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Ankara. Dr.
Argun is fluent in English, Arabic, French and Circassian languages.
Session I - Sunday October 8 5:00-6:50 PM
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Ahmet Faruk Aysan is the Chair of the Economics Department at ehir University
in Istanbul. He received his B.A. in economics from Bogaziçi University (1999), and
both M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in economics from the University of Maryland
at College Park. Dr. Aysan served as a consultant to many institutions including
the World Bank, the Turkish Central Bank, and Oxford Analytica. He was on the
faculty of Bogaziçi University (2005-2017) and served as its Deputy Director of
the Center for Economics and Econometrics. Dr. Aysan was as a member of the
Monetary Policy Committee at the Central Bank of Turkey. He was also a member
of the G-20 Financial Safety Net Experts Group, a member of the Advisory Board
of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Group of TÜBTAK, and a National
Expert on Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities under the Seventh Framework
Program of the European Union. Professor Aysan’s fields of specialization include
international finance, macroeconomics, political economy, banking and finance,
econometrics, governance and development. He is a member of editorial and
advisory boards of several international journals. Dr. Aysan has many articles
published in academic journals and received the Bogaziçi University Foundation
Publication Awards; Bogaziçi University Foundation Academic Promotion Awards,
and the Ibn Khaldun Prize for the best paper on the North African and Middle
Eastern Country Studies granted by Middle East Economic Association. Dr. Aysan
has also served on the advisory board of the Contemporary Turkish Studies at the
London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) European Institute.
Session V - Tuesday October 10 9:30-11:30 AM
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Abbas Barzegar is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Georgia State University,
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a non-resident fellow at
the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). He received his PhD in
2010 in Religious Studies from Emory University, and his MA and BA degrees
from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Religious Studies and Political
Science respectively. He currently directs the interdisciplinary research initiative
entitled “Civic Approaches to Conflict Resolution in the Muslim World” at GSU,
which explores community-led strategies to mitigating conflict and promoting
civil society in and around the MENA region. His previous research includes
documenting the history of African American Muslim groups in the 1970s and
1980s, the dynamics of transnational political Islam, and early formations of the
Sunni-Shiite conflict. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is
the co-author of Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam (Stanford,
2009). His work has been supported by The European Union, The British
Council, The US Institute of Peace (USIP), the Mellon Foundation, The National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and The American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS). His commentary and analysis can be found in a variety of print
and broadcast media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, The Guardian, Huffington
Post, and Aljazeera.
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Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and he is the Director of the
Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. He received his BA
in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr. Brown has
studied and conducted research in many countries including Egypt, Syria, Turkey,
Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Africa, India, Indonesia and Iran. His book
publications include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation
and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon (Brill, 2007), Hadith: Muhammad’s
Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009) and Muhammad: A
Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was selected for
the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Bridging Cultures-Muslim Journeys
Bookshelf. His most recent book, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and
Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (Oneworld, 2014), was named one of
the top books on religion in 2014 by the Independent. He has published articles
in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and
Pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam
and Law. Dr. Brown’s current research interests include Islamic legal reform and a
translation of Sahih al-Bukhari.
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Mehmet Bulut is is the President of stanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. Dr.
Bulut is also a Professor of Economics and Economic History. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 2000 and M.A. from
Posthumus Institute (1998) in the field of Economic History, and B.S. and
M.A. degrees from Dokuz Eylul University in Economics. He taught at Baskent
University and served as Chair of the Economics Department. He became Dean
of College of Political Sciences and Vice-President at Yildirim Beyazit University
in 2011, and served as a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) in
2012. He also serves as member of the Board of Directors in several public and
private companies. He is currently working on long-term economic changes
and development, economic performance comparisons between countries, the
economic reasons for the differences, the international political economy, the
Ottoman-European-Atlantic Economic Relations, Economic History, History
of Economic Thought, economic and financial Institutions. As a visiting
scholar he has been to Dalarna (Sweden), Cambridge (England), Harvard, and
Princeton (US) Universities. Dr. Bulut has many publications in refereed and
international academic journals including the American Journal of Economics
and Sociology, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, Journal of
European Economic History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Journal for the Study of
Religions and Ideologies. He serves as the general editor of the Journal of Islamic
Economics and Finance and Journal of Adam Academy of Social Sciences.
Plenary Session - Sunday October 8 4:30-5:00 PM
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Ömer Çaha is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and
International Relations at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. His areas of
research include women’s movements, political theory, and theory of democracy.
Dr. Çaha has many books and publications in English and Turkish including,
Women and Civil Society in Turkey: Women’s Movements in a Muslim Society
(2012); Türkiye’de Cam Tavan Sendromu [Glass Ceiling Syndrome in Turkey,
2016] (with Havva Çaha and Sare Aydn); Dünyada ve Türkiye’de Siyasi deolojiler
[Political Ideologies in Turkey and the World, 2014] (with Bican ahin); Deien
Türkiye’de Kadn [Women in Changing Turkey, 2014] (with Havva Çaha and Sare
Aydn), Sivil Toplum ve Devlet [Civil Society and the State, 6th ed., 2014]; Kadn
Örgütleri ve Yerel Demokrasi [Women’s Organizations and Local Democracy, 2012]
(with Havva Çaha); Women and Politics: Class Differences in Feminism, 2008.
He also co-edited several volumes including Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Aile [Family
in the World and in Turkey, 2006], and Process of EU Enlargement in the 21st
Century: New Challenges, (with Peter Terem), published in 2005 by the University
of Matej Bel.
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Abd al-Fattah El-Awaisi is a Professor of International Relations at Istanbul
Sabahattin Zaim Universitesi and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the
Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) College of Law, Government and International
Studies. Professor El Awaisi is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in
the UK. Dr. El-Awaisi received his PhD from the University of Exeter in 1986 and
has been on the faculty of Palestinian, Arab, British, Malaysian, and Turkish
universities. He has an extensive record of publications in both English and Arabic
especially with regards to international relations and the Palestinian issue. He
has also established a number of academic projects and is the founder of the
field of inquiry of “Islamicjerusalem Studies.” Professor El-Awaisi received a
number of awards, including Stirling Council Provost’s Civic Award (1999), Al-
Maqdisi Award (2005), An Early Day Motion at the House of Commons (2006),
Motion at the Scottish Parliament (2006), Special Award for Innovation (2007),
and Pioneer Award for History Making (2007).
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Hussein ElKazzaz received his Master of Business Administration degree, MBA,
as well as PhD in Business Administration and Organizational Behavior (1988)
from Ohio State University. Dr. Elkazzaz was assistant professor of Management
at Alexandria University, Egypt (1988-1992, 1999-2000). He was the Co-founder
and former Managing Director of Skopos Consulting Group in the Middle East
(2002-2012), an Organizational Development Consulting firm operating in the
MENA region. In 2012-2013, he served as senior advisor to the democratically
elected president of Egypt in charge of the Integrated National Development
Strategic Project. Currently, he is the director of Insan Center for Civilization
Studies, an Istanbul based think tank focusing on issues of Ummah revival and
new paradigms of Islamic civilization. Dr. ElKazzaz is the author of two published
books on management and editor of internal project reports on integrated
development and Ummah revival at the Center.
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Jamal Elshayyal is an international award winning senior correspondent for
Aljazeera English. He joined the channel in 2006 as part of its launch team and
served as its first Middle East Editor. Elshayyal is a graduate of the University of
London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in Economics and Arabic,
and has published in many leading news outlets. In 2010, he gained widespread
acclaim for his reporting from on board the Turkish aid ship the Mavi Marmara as
it came under attack from Israeli commandos in international waters, which he
chronicled in a chapter in the book Midnight On The Mavi Marmara (OR Books).
Jamal has covered a number of major stories including the 2011 uprisings in Egypt,
Libya, Syria and Yemen. Jamal was Aljazeera’s main reporter during the 2013 coup
in Egypt, the 2014 coup in Yemen, and the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey. He
has interviewed several world leaders and has extensive access to major power
players in the GCC and the MENA region.
Session III: Monday October 9 11:50-1:50 PM
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Arif Ersoy has been Professor at the Faculty of Business and Management
Sciences at stanbul Sabahattin Zaim University since 2015. He also serves as
the Chair of the Department of Islamic Economics and Finance, the Director of
the International Research and Implementation Centre of Islamic Economics
and Finance, and Vice Rector of the University. Prof. Ersoy has published in many
fields including the history of economic thought, economic systems, institutional
economics, international economic relations, economic restructuring, D8
countries, and global and regional economic integration. Many of his publications
were translated into English, German, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. He presented
his research in numerous conferences and workshops across the world and was
a visiting research professor in China for some time. Apart from his academic
career, Prof. Ersoy also served, from 1994 to 2002, as mayor of Çorum in
Turkey.
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John L. Esposito is University Professor, Professor of Religion and International
Affairs and of Islamic Studies, as well as the Founding Director of the Alwaleed
bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
His more than 50 books include: What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam;
The Future of Islam; Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really
Think; Religion and Violence; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam; The
Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring;
Islamophobia and the Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century. Dr. Esposito’s
writings are translated into more than 40 languages. He was the past President
of the American Academy of Religion, the Middle East Studies Association
of North America, and Vice Chair of the Center for the Study of Islam and
Democracy. Professor Esposito has been a member of the World Economic
Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders and the European Community’s Network of
Experts on De-Radicalisation, a Senior Scientist for The Gallup Center for Muslim
Studies, and ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations. He has served as
a consultant to the U.S. Department of State and other agencies, European and
Asian governments, corporations, universities, and media worldwide.
Session III - Monday October 9 11:50-1:50 PM
Closing Session - Tuesday October 10 5:00-7:00 PM
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Heba Raouf Ezzat is currently on the faculty of the Political Science Department
at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. She was Assistant Professor of Political
Science and Deputy Director of the Center for Humanities and Interdisciplinary
Studies at Cairo University, and Adjunct Professor at the American University
in Cairo. She was also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, University of
Westminster, University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, and
Oxford’s Centre for Islamic Studies. Dr. Ezzat received her BA, MA, and PhD
degrees from the University of Cairo in political science in 1987, 1995, and 2007
respectively. She has researched and written on many topics including global
civil society, building global democracy, women and politics in Islam, faith
and citizenship, and political and social movements in Islam. Some of her
publications include Women, Ethics and Religion (Co-authored with Nawal
Saadawi in the form of a debate, 2000), On the Future of Women and Politics in
the Arab World, a chapter in Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (edited by
John J. Donodue and John L. Esposito, Oxford University Press, 2006), and The
Political Imagination of Islamists: A Conceptual Analysis” (in Arabic, 2nd ed.
2015). She has served as a member of the C-100 initiative for Islamic-Western
understanding set up by the World Economic Forum, by which she was named a
Young Global Leader in 2005.
Session VI - Tuesday October 10 12:00-2:00 PM
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Dalia Fahmy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Long Island University
where she teachers courses on US foreign Policy, World Politics, International
Relations, Causes of War, and Politics of the Middle East. She is also a Senior
Fellow at the Center for Global Policy in Washington DC. Dr. Fahmy’s three books:
The Rise and Fall of The Muslim Brotherhood and the Future of Political Islam
(forthcoming), Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy, and
International Relations cover her research areas. Dr. Fahmy has published several
articles in academic journals focusing on democratization and most recently on
the affects of Islamophobia on US foreign policy. She has given several briefings
on the future of democracy in the Middle East. She has been interviewed by and
written editorials in various media outlets including ABC, CBC, CNBC, MSNBC,
the Huffington Post, the Washington Post and appears often on Aljazeera. Dr.
Fahmy has won several academic awards and fellowships for her research. In
2014, Dr. Fahmy was one of the recipients of the prestigious Kleigman Prize in
Political Science, and was the 2016 recipient of the Newton Prize for Excellence in
Teaching.
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Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at
Princeton University (1961-2001). Since 2002 he has been a Research Fellow
with the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Between 2008 and 2014, Dr. Falk served as UN Special
Rapporteur on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. In 2017,
Falk was the co-author with Virginia Tilley of a report commissioned by the UN
Economic and Social Commission (ESCWA) under the title “Israel’s Practices and
Policies Toward the Palestinian People Regarding the Question of Apartheid.”
Falk is also Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He
currently directs a project on Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at
UCSB, serves as Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and
is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several journals and magazines
including the American Journal of International Law, The Nation, The Progressive,
and Third World Quarterly. He has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize since 2008. His recent books include The Costs of War: International Law,
the UN, and World Order after Iraq (2008); Achieving Human Rights (2009); (Re)
Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014); Humanitarian Intervention and
Legitimacy Wars (2014); Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope (2014); Chaos and
Counterrevolution: After the Arab Spring (2015); Power Shift: On the New Global
Order (2016); and Palestine Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2017). He has also
published a book of poems, Waiting for Rainbows in 2015.
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Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an
Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel
School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He obtained his
doctorate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto
and previously was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern
University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Global Institute. His
intellectual and research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics
and political theory, in particular debates on religion and democracy, secularism
and its discontents, Middle East and Islamic politics, democratic and human
rights struggles in non-Western societies, and Islam-West relations. He is
the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic
Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of
The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future
(Melville House, 2011), The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013) and Sectarianization:
Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is
frequently interviewed by PBS, NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera, Pacifica Radio and the BBC
and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Wall Street
Journal, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), CNN.com among other media outlets.
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brahim Kaln is Presidential Spokesperson and Senior Adviser to the President
of Turkey. Dr. Kalin is an assistant professor and the founding director of SETA
Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, based in Ankara, serving
as its director from 2005 to 2009. He is a fellow at Alwaleed Center for Muslim-
Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. from George
Washington University and has taught courses on Islamic philosophy, comparative
philosophy, Islam-West relations and Turkish foreign policy, publishing widely in
these areas. His field of concentration is post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy with
research interests in comparative philosophy and Muslim-Christian relations.
His publications include Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra
on Existence, Intellect and Intuition (2010), Mulla Sadra (2013), Akl ve Erdem -
Türkiye’nin Toplumsal Muhayyilesi (Reason and Virtue: Turkey’s Social Imagination
(2014) and Ben, Öteki ve Ötesi: slam-Bat likileri Tarihine Giri (The Self, The
Other and Beyond: Introduction to the History of Islam-West Relations) (2016).
His book Islam and the West (in Turkish) has won the 2007 Writers’ Association
of Turkey award for best book. Dr. Kalin is the editor of 2000’li Yllarda Türk D
Politikas (Turkish Foreign Policy in the 2000s) and Mulla Sadra: The Book Of
Metaphysical Penetrations (2014). He is the editor-in-chief of the 2-Volume Oxford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam (2014.) Dr. Kalin also
co-edited (with John Esposito), Islamophobia and the Challenge of Pluralism in the
21st Century, (2011). His prolific op-eds have appeared in many notable newspapers
around the world. He has a weekly column in Daily Sabah.
Closing Session - Tuesday October 10 5:00-7:00 PM
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Flynt Leverett is one of the founding faculty of the Penn State School of
International Affairs, and an affiliate faculty at Penn State Law. He is also a
visiting scholar at Peking University’s Institute of International and Strategic
Studies and a senior fellow at Renmin University of China. Prof. Leverett served
in the U.S. government for 11 years (1992-2003) at the White House as National
Security Council senior director for Middle East affairs, on the Secretary of
State’s Policy Planning Staff, and as CIA senior analyst. He left government
in 2003 because of disagreements over Middle East policy and the conduct
of the war on terror. Dr. Leverett has written extensively on the international
relations, politics, and political economy of the Middle East and on U.S. Middle
East policy. Along with his wife Prof. Hillary Mann Leverett, he co-wrote, Going
to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran (2013), which
was lauded by many public intellectuals. Prof. Leverett’s first book, Inheriting
Syria: Bashar’s Trial by Fire (2005), was a Foreign Affairs bestseller. Dr. Leverett
has been a visiting professor at MIT and Yale and has given presentations at top
universities around the world, including Beijing, Cambridge, Chicago, Georgetown,
Harvard, NYU, Tehran, Toronto, and many others. He has been interviewed on
major international news and public affairs programs and his articles and op-
eds appear regularly in high-profile media outlets. Prof. Leverett has testified
before congressional committees and addressed foreign ministries and strategic
research institutes around the world.
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Abdel-Fattah Mady is Professor of Political Science at Egypt’s Alexandria
University. He was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (2015–2016). He served as an UNDP
expert and as a consultant for the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva. He was
trained in the study of politics at Alexandria University, Egypt (B.A., 1991 and
M.A. 1997) and Claremont Graduate University in LA (M.A. in 2004 and Ph.D.
in 2005). His research focuses on regime transitions and democratization in
the Middle East, Islam-based political movements, political development, civil
education and human rights and academic freedoms. He is the author and
editor of several books as well as published numerous articles in many journals
including Democratization, the Arab Journal of Political Science, Contemporary
Arab Affairs, and The Arab Future. Since Egypt’s 2011 revolution, he has served
as political consultant to many political parties and NGOs, focused on raising
civic awareness, defending human rights, and advising political activists. He was
elected in 2012 as the Secretary General of Alexandria University Faculty Club.
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Mohammed Moussa has been Assistant Professor in the Political Science and
International Relations Department at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim since 2016. He
received both his BA degree in Politics and Economics in 2005, and MA degree
in International Studies in 2006, from the University of London, as well as PhD
from the University of Exeter in Middle East Politics in 2013. In 2015-2016 he was
a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations at
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of the book Politics of the
Islamic Tradition: The Political Thought of Muhammad al-Ghazali (Routledge,
2015). Dr. Moussa published numerous articles including “A Discourse Analysis
of Muhammad al-Ghazali’s Thought: Between Tradition and Renewal” and
“Democratic Knowledge and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on
Democratisation in North Africa.” His research interests include Islamic political
thought and tradition, the modern state in the Middle East, and the Arab
uprisings.
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Asifa Quraishi-Landes is a professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law, with a current
focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar
and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Recent publications include Healing a Wounded
Islamic Constitutionalism: Sharia, Legal Pluralism, and Unlearning the Nation-State
Paradigm, and Legislating Morality and Other Illusions about Islamic Government.
Currently, she is working on a book manuscript, Islamic Reconstitutionalism, in which
she proposes a new model of Islamic constitutionalism for today’s Muslim-majority
countries. Professor Quraishi-Landes holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School
and other degrees from Columbia Law School, the University of California-Davis,
and the University of California-Berkeley, and has served as law clerk in the U.S. 9th
circuit Court of Appeals. She has served as a Public Delegate on the U.S Delegation
to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, the Task Force on Religion and
the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and as
advisor to the Pew Task Force on Religion & Public Life. She is currently President of
the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), and serves on the governing
board of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Islamic Law. She is
an affiliate of the Muslim Women’s League, past President and Board Member of
Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, a Fellow with the Institute for
Social Policy and Understanding and a member of the “Opinion Leaders Network” for
the British Council’s “Our Shared Future” project.
Session IV - Monday October 9 3:10-5:00 PM
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Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford
University, teaching in two Faculties: Oriental Studies, and Theology and
Religion. He is Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College (Oxford) and
Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan); Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic
Studies, (Qatar); Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics
(CILE) (Doha, Qatar) and President of the think tank European Muslim Network
(EMN) in Brussels. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy and French literature and PhD
in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt he
received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-
Azhar University scholars (ijazat teaching license in seven disciplines). Through
his writings and lectures Tariq has contributed to the debate on the issues
of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. His research
interests include the issues of Islamic legislation, politics, ethics, Sufism and the
Islamic contemporary challenges in both the Muslim-majority countries and the
West. He is active at both academic and grassroots levels. He is a member of the
International Union of Muslim Scholars. He is the author of Islam: The Essentials,
Au péril des idées with Edgar Morin; The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New
Middle East; The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism;
Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation; In the Footsteps of the Prophet:
Lessons from the Life of Muhammad; and Western Muslims and the Future of
Islam.
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Emad Shahin is the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa
University in Doha, Qatar. Dr. Shahin was the Hasib Sabbagh Distinguished Chair
of Arabic and Islamic Studies (2015-2016) and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown
University (2014). He was also Professor of Public Policy, at the American University
in Cairo (2012-2013). His areas of interests include Comparative Politics, Islam and
Politics, Political Economy of the Middle East, and Democracy and Political Reform
in Muslim societies. In 2014 he was also a public policy scholar at The Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Shahin was an Associate Professor of
Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame (2009-2012),
Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University
(2006-2009), and visiting scholar in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard
Law School (2006-2007). Professor Shahin holds a Ph.D. (1989) from Johns Hopkins,
and M.A. (1983) and B.A. (1980) from the American University in Cairo. A prolific
author, Shahin authored, co-authored and co-edited six books and has more than
50 scholarly publications including journal articles, book chapters and encyclopedia
entries. His publications include Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements
in North Africa (1998), co-editor (with Nathan Brown) of The Struggle over Democracy
in the Middle East and North Africa (2010), and co-author of Islam and Democracy
(2005 in Arabic). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and
Politics (2014) and co-editor (with John L. Esposito) of The Oxford Handbook of Islam
and Politics (2013).
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Sohaira Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Georgetown
University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. She has recently completed
her first monograph on the famed 11th century jurist and theologian Abu
Ma’ali al-Juwayni, titled Knowledge, Law and Politics: An Intellectual Portrait
of al-Juwayni. She is currently working on her second book project on Anglo-
Muhammadan law in British India. She is also working on a translation of al-
Juwayni’s Kitab al-Ijtihad accompanied with a commentary that discusses how
ijtihad was conceptualized within the madhhab-system in the 11th century. Dr.
Siddiqui has written articles on Islamic political thought, Islamic law in modern
nation states, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic theology, and has a forthcoming
edited volume looking at the development of the field of Islamic law within
Western Academia. Her research interests include classical Islamic legal theory,
classical Islamic political thought, the development and intersection of legal
thought and political thought from the 9th to 11th centuries, and secularism and
modernity in relation to Islamic law and Muslims in the West. At Georgetown
University she is teaching courses on Islamic Law, Islamic Political Thought,
Islamic Reform in Contemporary Muslim Societies, Islamic Theology, and Religion
in Modernity. She previously taught at the University of Saskatchewan courses in
Comparative Religion, Islamic Law, and Gender and the Modern Muslim World.
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Ömer Tagetiren is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science and
International Relations Department at stanbul Sabahattin Zaim University.
He received his BA degree from Boaziçi University (2005), his MA from
University of Georgia (2010), and his PhD from Georgia State University (2016).
His dissertation title was Rethinking Turkish Laicism in Light of the Debates
about Liberal Neutrality. He published book chapters and journal articles on such
topics as sociology of religion, political thought of Al-Farabi, the rights of non-
liberal people within a liberal state, and the possibility and desirability of liberal
neutrality. His research interests include comparative political theory, liberalism
and its critiques, secularism, Islamic political thought, and comparative
politics.
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Ismail Numan Telci is the Deputy Director of the Middle East Institute (ORMER)
and an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations
at Sakarya University. He also works as a researcher at the Foreign Policy
Department at SETA Foundation. He obtained his BA in Political Science from
Istanbul University and MA in European Studies from Hochschule Bremen,
Germany in 2006 and 2008 respectively. He received his PhD degree in
International Relations from Sakarya University in 2015. Dr. Telci was a visiting
researcher at the Center for Civilizations and Dialogue of Cultures at Cairo
University from November 2012 to August 2013. His research focuses on Egyptian
politics, Arab revolutions and politics in the Gulf region. He is the author of
Dictionary of the Egyptian Revolution and editor of Turkish Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies. Dr. Telci is the managing editor of www.misirbulteni.com, a
news webpage focusing on the recent developments in Egypt.
Session II - Monday October 9 9:30-11:20 AM
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