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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C-II, Johar Town, Lahore-54770, Pakistan Tel: 92-42 35212801-10
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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
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It is good news that a great scholar will be addressing at the IIUI. Dr. Chapra has developed his prominence among the Islamic Economists who have spent significant part of their life in the environment which is not challenging with the perspective of academics, modern research and new financial products developed in the International Financial System. The scholars who are associated with IRTI need to broaden their perspective by interacting with the scholars/researchers/professors and practitioners of the conventional economic and financial systems. Unfortunately, the researchers who are engaged in the Islamic financial systems remain in their confinements. They do not withstand criticism and the opposition. Instead of replying scholarly they start creating enmity with critiques. Most of their writings reflect as if there is no difference between a Mdrasha Graduate and Islamic Economists. In many of the economic issues, they have created controversies for nothing with the West.
I suggest and request the university authorities to invite critical thinkers in the field of Islamic Economics and Finance who are well versed with the history of economic thoughts and the modern financial systems so that "the show" should not remain one sided and the so called Islamic Economists should work more sincerely and logically to bless this Muslim world with some practicable outcome because so far they have done nothing concrete during the last 40 years despite having full financial, political, social and diplomatic support, rather they have spoiled their concepts in conventional economic and financial system. Their way of research had been to find out some tools from the New Classical Economics and build their research findings in deception.
I suggest the names of Dr. Shaukat Ali, Henry and Wilson, Dr. Faiz Bilqees, Mr. Muhammad Ayub Siddiqui, Copeland, and some other experts from the foreign universities.
The scholars who claimed to be the champions of Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance must be asked to provide practicable solution and a system alternative to the interest based conventional systems instead of terming things Halal and Haram as they had been doing in the past just for meager amount of salary packages. Many Islamic Economists remained in search of the episodes like international financial crisis. When this episode happens they start proving the superiority of Islamic Financial system without concrete evidence of practice of the Islamic system.
Dr. Siddiqui, the President of IIUI is well aware of these so called Islamic Economists who left the IIIE for $$$$ and Riyals and who have not yet produced any thing concrete.
I sincerely pray and hope for the success of Islamic system.
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very bad way of approaching the issue indeed.. wish it was more professional and academic suiting the place where its coming from. And wish nothing of this is real..
very bad way of approaching the issue indeed.. wish it was more professional and academic suiting the place where its coming from. And wish nothing of this is real..
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