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    International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in Southern Africa:  Johannesburg,  1-3 September 2006 SUMMARISED PROGRAMME
       
Session Time Venue Name Topic
       
Friday  1 September 2006    
       
       
Opening 9:40 Auditorium Zeinoul Abedien Cajee National Awqaf Foundation of South Africa, Awqaf SA
9:50   JFJ van Rensburg Uiversity of Johannesburg
10:00   Halit Eren IRCICA
10:10   H.E. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Secretary General, Organisation of Islamic Countries
10:20   Message from H.E. Thabo Mbeki President of the Republic of South Africa
       
Plenary 10:30 Auditorium Ebrahim Rasool Future Perspectives on Islamic Civilisation in Southern Africa
10:50   Suleiman Nyang Current State of Islamic Civilisation in Southern Africa
11:10   Ahmet Kavas Ottoman Relations with Southern Africa (16th-20th Centuries)
       
Jumma Salaah and Lunch    
       
Session 1       History
14:30 B les 102 Auwais Rafudeen The Founding of the Muslim Community of the Strand in the Nineteenth Century, 1822-1928
14:50 B les 102 Ebrahim Rhoda The Founding of the Muslim Community of the Strand in the Nineteenth Century, 1822-1928
15:10 B les 102 Eric L. Germain South African Muslims’ Expressions of Solidarity with the Umma: From the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-78 till the Khilafat Movement in the Early 1920s
       
Session 2       Community-State relations
14:30 B les 101 Umar Ahmad Kasule Islam and African Culture South of the Sahara: Towards a Steady Convergence
14:50 B les 101 Faraj A. Tamim The Phenomenon of Exclusion by Integration as a Roll-back Strategy against Islamic Influence in Southern Africa: The Case of Tanzania
15:10 B les 101 Ahmed M. Patel Establishment of Islam in Ireland by Muslims from South Africa
       
Session 3       Socio-political contribution of Musims
14:30 B les 103 Nisbert Taringa Pluralism and Islam in Zimbabwe: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Theological and Political Dimensions
14:50 B les 103 Mustafa Efe The Effects of Colonialism on Islam and Muslims in Southern Africa
15:10 B les 103 Sa’diyya Shaikh Engaging Gender Ethics: Voices of South African Muslim Women
       
Session 4       Socio-political contribution of Musims
16.15 B les 101 Lubna Nadvi-Imraan Buccus The Muslim Vote in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Voting Patterns amongst Muslims in Durban at National and Local Government Level