About this Event
Organised by the Manchester Muslim Forum[MMF] and hosted by Khizra Masjid in partnership:
DISCUSSION: RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS AND WHAT CAN KHALDUNIAN SOCIOLOGY TEACH US
with *Dr Shamim Miah [author of Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society and Huddersfield University]
*Host and chair: Dr Sadek Hamid [Head of Research at UKIM / University of Wales Trinity Saint David]
Date and time: Saturday 15th February 2025, 4pm - 6pm [Prompt start]
Venue: The Khizra Mosque and Community Centre, Main Lecture Theatre , 425 Cheetham Hill Rd, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 0PF
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The world is full of ruins. From the Colosseum of Rome to the Northern industrial power cities of the UK , the vine-wreathed temples of the Maya to the shell-pocked buildings of Bakhmut. Each of these ruins have a different history, but they share a single truth: they are all places where, one day, the future ended. Sameul Huntington posed the question whether conflicts between civilizations would dominate the future of world politics and today we are now witnessing the gradual decline of the West and the rise of Asia and Africa. Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is a significant intellectual figure within the Muslim world. He is seen as the founding father of sociology, whilst making significant contributions in the fields of history, economics and philosophy and his magnum opus, the 'Muqaddimah' is still referenced by some of the leading thinkers who study 'Civilisations' and today his idea's are more than relevant for all of us and to take heed.
Main speaker and author: *Dr Shamim Miah is a senior lecturer at Huddersfield University and the author of four books: Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society; Race, Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England (co author-2020); Muslims and the Question of Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racial Politics (2017) and Muslims Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation which received the ‘highly commended’ book award by the Society for Educational Studies’ (2016). Shamim is the co-editor for the Muslim’s in Britain series (Oxford University Press). He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and an associate editor for the journal Critical Muslim (Hurst)
Host and chair : *Dr Sadek Hamid is Head of Research at UKIM and is also a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has previously held teaching and research positions at the universities of Chester, Liverpool Hope, Cambridge Muslim College and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He has been actively engaged in Muslim communities for more than 30 years and prior to transitioning to academia was a Youth & Community Development professional. He has written extensively on Muslim young people, Islamic activism, religion, politics, and public policy. He is author of Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism (I. B. Tauris, 2016), co-author of British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism, (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), editor of Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric and Realities (Routledge, 2016), co-editor of Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context (Syracuse University Press, 2018), Youth Work and Islam: A Leap of Faith for Young People (Sense, 2011) and most recently; Contemporary British Muslim Arts an Cultural Production: Identity, Belonging and Social Change (Routledge, 2023).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Khizra Mosque, 425 Cheetham Hill Road, Cheetham Hill, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
