Scope
The Centre of Islamic Studies and Civilisation’s (CISAC) Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum for presentation, discussion and peer review of scholarly work and research of scholars and graduate students’ research projects and guest scholars’ works-in-progress in the field of Islamic Studies.
The colloquiums are held at CISAC Centre in Sydney and meet bimonthly over afternoon tea to hear upcoming research and to discuss the papers.
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Colloquium Presentations
November 2022 (ZOOM only)
| Dr Munther (Munzer) Emad | Presentation | Tribal Customary Law in Contemporary Jordan: Conciliation and Security through Bedouin Justice |
| Dr Suleyman Sertkaya | Presentation | What Changed in Medina: The Place of Peace and Was in the Life of Prophet Muhammad |
November 2022 (ZOOM only)
| Associate Professor Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf | Presentation | The Trajectory of “Islamisation of Knowledge’ Movement: Its Past and Relevance Today |
| Omar Mohamed | Presentation | Political Islam Through Muslim Brotherhood |
September 2022 (ZOOM only)
| Dr Jan A. Ali | Presentation | Islam and Muslims in Australia: Settlement, Integration, Shariah, Education and Terrorism |
| Mirela Cufurovic | Presentation | A New History of Muslims in Australia: Social Emotion, Identity Integration, and the Making of a Community in the new Millenia |
July 2022 (ZOOM only)
| Professor Peter G. Riddell | Presentation | Trends in Tafsir/Qur’anic Studies in Malaysia in the Postmodern Era |
| Dr Ervan Nurtawab | Presentation | Trends in Tafsir/Qur’anic Studies in Indonesia in the Postmodern Era |
May 2022 (ZOOM only)
| Associate Professor Zuleyha Keskin | Presentation | Inner Peace in Islam: Said Nursi’s Perspective |
| Associate Professor Salih Yucel | Presentation | Is Online Clinical Pastoral Education Effective? An Australian Case Study |
March 2022 (ZOOM only)
| Dr Shaheen Whyte | Presentation | Constructions and Contestations of Islamic Religious Authority in Australia |
| Dr Mahsheed Ansari | Presentation | Writing the Biography of Dr Qazi Ashfaq Ahmad (1930-2022) |
December, 2021 (ZOOM only)
| Romi Setiawan | Presentation | Risk in Islamic Banking and Finance in Indonesia |
| Dr Daud Batchelor | Presentation | Enhanced Islamic Well-Being Index (IWI 2.0 – 2021) for Muslim Countries |
| David Drennan | HDR Confirmation Presentation | Beyond Flexibility in Fatwas: Maqāsid, Maslaha, and Modernity in Northwest African Islamic Law at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |
September 10, 2021 (ZOOM only)
| Elisabeth Yarbakhsh | Presentation | Afghan Migration and Iran’s Waning Hospitality: 1979-today |
| Ismail Haskara | HDR Confirmation Presentation | The Nature of Change in Politics, Society & Religion in Turkey between 2011-2021: The Case of Diyanet |
July 9, 2021 (ZOOM only)
| Maina Talia | Presentation | Am I not your tuakoi (neighbour)? |
| Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Ozalp | Respondent to Maina | Islamic Approach to Neighbourhood, Environment and Climate Change |
| Sarkhan Gasimov | HDR Confirmation Presentation | Examining Human Perfection in the Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Abraham Maimonides |
May 21, 2021 (ZOOM only)
| Ikramullah Ahmed | HDR Confirmation Presentation | Sighting the moon for Ramadan in Islamic Law: A Critical Evaluation of Diverse Views on Calculation and Physical Sighting |
| Dr Aref Chaker | Presentation | A Study on the Oneness of God (Tawhīd) in Imam al-Māturīdī’s Qur’an Commentary, Ta’wīlāt |
March 12, 2021 (ZOOM only)
| Associate Professor Halim Rane | Presentation | Typologies of Muslims: Findings from the Islam in Australia Survey |
| Nasreen Hanifi | HDR Confirmation Presentation | How Do Muslims Show Compassion during Challenging Times: A Psycho-Spiritual Analysis of Compassion? |
December 11, 2020 (ZOOM only)
| Momina Naveed | HDR Confirmation Presentation | A Comparative Analysis of Women in the Nur and Deobandi Movements |
| Ensar Cutahija | HDR Confirmation Presentation | Mystical Interpretation of Prophet Isa in Bursawi’s Qur’an Commentary |
August 28, 2020 (ZOOM only)
| Dr Zuleyha Keskin | Paper Presentation | An Islamic Approach to Environmental Protection and Ecologically Sustainable Peace |
| Bonne Martinot | Paper Presentation | Integration and Challenged faced by Australian Born Converts to Islam |
| Prof Ismail Albayrak / Sadeq Ansari | Paper Presentation | Ṭaḥāwī’s approach to the different readings of the Qur’an: redefining orthodoxy |
June 26, 2020 (ZOOM only)
| Dr Husnia Underabi | Paper Presentation | ‘Backstage’ responses to the Sydney Siege: a case-study of the sermons delivered in the mosques of Sydney in the aftermath of the incident |
| Dr Suleyman Sertkaya | Paper Presentation | Application of the word ‘Peace’ (Salam) in the Qur’anic Vocabulary |
| Dr Muhammed Aksu | Paper Presentation | The East and West in Dialogue: ‘Integrated’ Representations of Muslims in Western Film and Television |
24 April, 2020 (ZOOM only)
| A/Prof Mehmet Ozalp | Paper Presentation | Challenges and Issues Faced by Australian Muslim Youth in the Presence of Personal and Societal Pressures. |
| Leila Khaled | Proposal Confirmation | Investigating the Implementation and Efficacy of Online Special Religious Education Class Intervention: Case Study of Islamic Scripture Classes |
28 February, 2020
| Dr Rosemary Hancock | Chapter Presentation | From Theology to Action: Islamic Environmental Activism |
| Mohammad Zuberali | Final Thesis Presentation | Contemporary Education for the Traditional ‘Ulama: A Study of the Deobandi Movement and Curricular Adaptation |
| Dr Mahsheed Ansari & Mirela Cufurovic | Chapter Presentation | Collective Trauma and the Muslim Women of the Christchurch Attack: An Observational and Media Study |