The winter season not only hosts The Reviving The Islamic Spirit convention in Toronto but also the ALIM Winter Program. This year, the weekend program is hosted in the Silicon Valley area at the site of our former workplace, the Muslim Community Association.

This year’s theme is titled “Is Islamic Thought Dying?”

This years Winter Program will critique the future of Islamic learning and educational institutions. The conference will discuss, among other things, William Chittick’s recent book entitled, “Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World.” The book will serve as a springboard for discussion on the broader issues and intersections of Islamic and Western approaches to learning and knowledge.

Chittick and others have argued that Islamic thought is dying, failing prey to the more short term oriented perspectives of Western educational systems. The ALIM scholars will provide meaningful critique on understanding classical Islamic texts within modern educational systems.

Topics like impediments to Islamic learning, the role of ‘progress’ and ‘ideology’ in Western and Islamic thought, the centrality of tawhid to knowledge, and changes in the Muslim view of knowledge through history, among others, will be addressed through a critical lens.

The following scholars will be leading the sessions:

Dr. Muneer Fareed
Dr. Abdul-Hakim Jackson
Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
IImam Zaid Shakir

For more info, please visit: AlimProgram.com

Registration: Click Here to Register Online!!

Tuition: $125 Student, $150 Professional, $250 Couple (includes all meals, not lodging)

Here are some videos with Dr. Muneer Fareed and Dr. Abdul-Hakim Jackson (who we just met again at RIS 2007).