Welcome Message from Dr Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali, Chair of AMSS (UK)
I would like to welcome you to the website of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) UK. Here you will find information about our organisation, our publications and our events and conferences.
AMSS (UK) is dedicated to advancing Muslim scholarship; the promotion of the Islamic position in various academic disciplines; to keep Muslim scholars informed about current conceptual, methodological and analytical developments and promote greater interdisciplinary co-operation, in an effort towards generating informed, critical and creative Islamic alternatives and opinions on topical and emerging issues of academic relevance to Muslims.
AMSS (UK) has introduced two prestigous awards, namely the Lifetime Achievement and Building Bridges awards, that are intended to recognise and highlight the achevement of individuals who have made a significant contribution to Islamic thought and promotion. We were honoured to award recent recipients: Dr Mustafa Ceric The Grand Mufti of Bosnia (pictured above); Dr Rowan Williams The Archbishop of Canterbury; and jointly award Recep Tayyip Erdogan The Prime Minister of Turkey and J.L. Rodriquez Zapatero The Prime Minister of Spain.
HEADLINES:
AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE - A COMMON WORD
AMSS UK was honoured to participate in the recent A Common Word seminar which culminated in an audience with His Holiness Benedict XVI the Pope. The First Seminar of the Catholic-Muslim Forum was held in the Vatican Rome on 4-6 November 2008 and attended by 29 Muslim and 29 Christian scholars, including His Eminence Mustafa Ceric, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia. The Forum, speeches, and addresses by both His Eminence Mustafa Ceric and His Holiness Benedict XVI, called for mutual love and respect between Christians and Muslims to heal tension between the two faiths. See links below for more details.
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Dr Anas al-Shaikh-Ali, Chair of AMSS UK (left) meeting His Holiness Benedict XVI, the Pope (right)
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BUILDING BRIDGES AWARD 2008
The AMSS UK is pleased to announce that its prestigious Building Bridges Award for 2008 has been given to 'A Common Word' project, in recognition of the 'outstanding effort to unify
communities separated by race, ethnicity, culture and
religion'. Click her for full press release (pdf), click here for press release flyer (pdf), or click here for: press releases, and awards pages.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2008
The AMSS UK is pleased to announce that its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for 2008 has been given to Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr, long and distinguished service in the field of Islamic thought, science and spirituality. Click her for full press release (pdf), or click here for: press releases, and awards pages.
CONFERENCE POSTPONED TO 2009
Conference 2008 on Muslim Youth. The AMSS annual conference on Muslim Youth which was originally being organised with Chester
University has now been postponed. A new venue and date will be advertised once a decision
has been made. Click here for more information (PDF).
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:
INVITATION TO BECOME A MEMBER
Members will receive complimentary copies of A.J.I.S.S. (American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences) and (for those who know arabic) Islamiyat Al-Ma'rifah. Note that AMSS (UK) members and students are usually entitled to a discount for conference fees. If you are not a member already then how about joining today to get your discount for forthcoming conferences and also enjoy the other membership benefits as well. Click here for a printable membership form (PDF).
