The second Qur'an and Human Knowledge conference has opened in Doha, Qatar, alongside "The Book of the Ummah" writers' forum, bringing together researchers and academics from Qatar and other countries to discuss the relationship between Qur'anic guidance and branches of human knowledge, Our Islam reports, citing The Peninsula Qatar.
The two-day event, under the theme "It guides to that which is most upright", is organised by the Islamic Research and Studies Department of Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs with Qatar University's Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and its College of Sharia and Islamic Studies. It aims to bring Islamic scholarship together with contemporary academic research.
Its four main themes are the Qur'an and philosophy, linguistics, law and politics. Organisers said about 2,000 abstracts were submitted; after several rounds of review, 58 were invited as full papers, 46 reached scientific evaluation and 17 papers by researchers from nine countries made the final programme.
Sheikh Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Thani, director of the Islamic Research and Studies Department, said the aim is to strengthen the Qur'an's intellectual presence and turn academic events into long-term knowledge projects. Dr Ibrahim Abdullah Al Ansari, dean of the College of Sharia, said the Qur'an has historically been the foundation of Islamic civilisation and inspired scholars' scientific and intellectual achievements.
Prof Badran Benlahcene, director of the Ibn Khaldon Center, said the Qur'an is a source of guidance and knowledge able to reconnect the sciences with their ethical and human purposes. Besides Qatar, researchers from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, Oman, Iraq and Sudan are taking part.
Source: Our Islam
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