Dr Muhammad Umer Chapra to Deliver Lectures at IIUI

First see this news item from: http://www.umt.edu.pk/khuram_Murad/islamabad.html

Lecture Topic: The Islamic Vision of Development

Date and Time: Tuesday, 30th March 2010, 11:00 am – 1:45 pm
Guest Speaker: Dr Muhammad Umer Chapra, Research Advisor, Islamic Research and Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah

Venue: International Islamic University Auditorium Faisal Masjid Campus, Islamabad

Dr Muhammad Umer Chapra

Dr Muhammad Umer Chapra is Research Advisor at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Jeddah. Prior to this position, he worked as Senior Economic Advisor at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), Riyadh, where he served for nearly 35 years. Earlier, he taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Kentucky, as Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics respectively, and was associated with the Pakistan Development Review as Senior Economist. Dr Chapra also worked as Associate Editor at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, and as Reader (Associate Professor) at the Central Institute of Islamic Research, Pakistan. A prolific writer and an author of 16 books and monographs and more than 100 papers and book reviews, Dr Chapra is acclaimed for his most outstanding origial contribution of four books: Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform (2008),

The Future of Economics: An Islamic Perspective (2000), Islam and the Economic Challenge (1992), and Towards a Just Monetary System (1985). Given the originality and impact of his contributions, his works have been translated into a number of languages, including Arabic, Bangla, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Malay, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu. Dr Chapra has lectured widely at a number of universities and professional academic and research institutions in different countries around the world, including the Harvard Law School, USA; Loughborough University, UK; the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK; the London School of Economics, UK; Universidad Autonoma, Madrid; the University of Malaga, Spain; the House Commons, London; the Islamic University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the Asia Pacific and Kyoto Universities in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. He has participated in a number of meetings of international and regional organizations like the IMF, IBRD, OPEC, IDB, OIC, GCC. He has also served for three years (2002-2005) as member of the Technical Committee of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) established in 2002 to prepare standards for the Islamic financial industry.
Dr Chapra is on the editorial board of a number of professional journals and has acted as referee for a number of others, including the Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society, UK; the Journal of Socio-Economics, USA; the Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), UK; and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, USA.

Dr Chapra is recipient of numeorus awards including the Islamic Development Bank Award for Islamic Economics and the King Faisal International Award for Islamic Studies. He was also awarded the Institute of Overseas Pakistanis (IOP) Gold Medal in August 1995 by the President of Pakistan for service to Islam and Islamic economics at the First IOP Convention in Islamabad.

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Now see the news item released by IIUI about the same event. There is no mention of who is organizing these lectures and what is the role of University of Management and Technology in this regard. Our media team, if any, is thoroughly unprofessional!

Dr. Umer Chapra to Speak at IIUI

Islamabad. Dr. Umar Chapra, Research Advisor, Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), Islamic Development Bank(IDB), Jeddah shall be delivering two lectures at the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) on 29th and 30th March 2010 at its Faisal Mosque Campus. His First Lecture shall be on “State of Islamic Economics 2009” and Second lecture shall be on “The Islamic Vision of Development”. Both events are open for all Interested persons.

Syed Muzammil Hussain
Deputy Director,
Public Relations Section
International Islamic University,
Islamabad (IIUI)
Phone No. 051-9019249
Fax No. 051-9257909

What a come back! What a come back!

For many at IIUI, it would be a shocking news. But equally for many others, it would be a delightful one. This time, its Muhammad Al-Ghazali’s turn. Our own Dr Muhammad al-Ghazali, Professor, Islamic Research Institute, has been appointed as the judge of Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The older brother, Dr Ghazi, former President, IIUI has also staged his comeback. What a comeback Ghazi sahib!! He is appointed as the judge of Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan. Some interesting events happening here: Dr Ghazi has earlier served as Judge in the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court and was part of the hearing of landmark decision on Riba. This time, he will sit as the judge of court whose decisions are reviewed by the upper court where the younger brother sits as judge. This is a unique event in the judicial history of Pakistan. Two brothers appointed judges on the same day, the younger in the upper court and the older in the lower court. Well-deserved placement, of course.

Ghazi sahib! Now when you are back in Islamabad with the grace of God, please take some interest in the affairs of IIUI. Don’t let it go to dogs, as they say in English. May Allah bring many more such days in your life.

Daily Aaj Kal