📘 ❞ Islamic Thought and Culture ❝ كتاب ــ إسماعيل راجي الفاروقي اصدار 1982

عن كتاب Islamic Thought and Culture:



Following the AAR annual meeting of 1972, Dr. Franklin Littell,
then Chairman of the History of Christianity Section and my colleague
at Temple University, Department of Religion, suggested that there is a
possibility for setting up a sub-section on Muslim-Christian Encounter
under the aegis of the History of Christianity Section. This sub-section
would offer panels and lectures in the annual program. I welcomed the
suggestion and arranged a program for the 1973 annual meeting in
Chicago. The same invitation was renewed for the 1974 (Washington)
meeting. Dr. Littell also advised that we must seek independent status
as a program unit since his chairmanship of the section on the History of
Christianity was to expire soon. At the 1974 meeting a unanimous vote
was taken by the scholars present at the Islamics sessions to apply for
status as an independent program unit. An application was lodged with
the AAR Executive Director for presentation to the AAR Program
Committee.
The application was turned down, and we participated in the 1975
program under the aegis of "History of Christianity." At the 1975
meeeting, another unanimous vote was taken and a committee elected
to apply for independent status. Again, this was turned down. Althoug~
we were granted a "Consultation" status, yet our participation appeared
in the program under the History of Christianity. At the 1976 meeting, a
third unanimous vote was taken and the same committee reelected to
apply once more for independent status. This was granted in
December, 1976, and we began to operate as such. Since then, the
Islamic Studies Group participated in five annual meetings. At the
request of the AAR Executive Director, the Group's participation was
extended to cover the 1981 meeting at San Francisco.
lri all, we have been responsible for holding
9 sessions of I Yi hours each
17 sessions of 3 hours each
2 plenary sessions of 2Yi hours each.
The above-mentioned sessions involved 127 sr··akers and 24 sessions





Book author :
Most of the papers presented under MuslimChristian Encounter or Islamic Studies were by special invitation. We also received a number of papers which were unsolicited. In every case we tried to fit the offered papers into the program without jeopardizing the planned themes for sessions. However, the desire of the Steering Committee was to focus ...