Immerse yourself in a day of intellectual exploration and community connection. Join us for interactive sessions designed to stimulate critical thinking, reflective circles fostering deep dialogue, and invaluable networking opportunities. We are honoured to host esteemed Professor Ali Paya, and respected scholar Sheikh Mirza Abbas, who will enrich our workshops. Prepare for a day of transformative learning and meaningful engagement.

In this talk, Professor Abdel-Haleem will describe some details of why and how he approached the task of translating the Qur’an into English. He will list some criteria for what makes a good translation. He will discuss his goals, problems, strategies and main sources with emphasis on the importance of context and stylistic and rhetorical features of the text of the Qur’an and how these affect the translation.

Kristin Aune is Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University. She has published widely on religion in higher education, and religion and gender, and conducted many externally funded research projects on these topics.

Dr. Syed Ali Naqvi is an internationally renowned
psychologist with over 35 years of experience working with governments, corporations, and foundations. He holds various professional credentials, including Chartered Consultant Psychologist and BABCP Accredited CBT Consultant.

We are all familiar, these days, with difficult environmental problems. But
what does the study of environmental ethics bring to the discussion? The field
tends to discuss two kinds of problems. One is concerned with the unintended
consequences of our actions and the problem that we may often discover ourselves
to have been interacting with complex systems about the operations of which
we may know little.

A Talk by Dr Dwight Swanson Friday 22nd December 2023