CONGRESS ON ISLAMIC CIVILISATION 22
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16 - 18 September 2022
Islamia College, Lansdowne, Cape Town, South Africa
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16 - 18 September 2022
Cape Town, South Africa
The 3rd International congress on “Islamic Civilisation in Southern Africa” is jointly organised by IRCICA the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture institute of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Awqaf South Africa, the University of the Western Cape and supported by Islamia College & others.
The congress will examine topics such as The spread of Islam in Southern Africa; the relationship between trade and Islam; language and Islamic literature; Islamic education and intellectual development; history, contribution, and challenges; colonialism and democracy; coexistence of cultures; arts and crafts, architecture, and archaeology; future perspectives; Muslim media; influential figures; establishment of financial institutions; community-state relations & NGOs.
Papers will be presented by a range of scholars from the SADC Region and beyond.
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Saturday, 17 September 2022
10:00am - 16:30pm
Islamia Hall
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Panel Information & Speaker Bios
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SPEAKERS
DR. SH. MUNEER ABDEROUF
SOUTH AFRICA
PROF. YUSSUF ADAM
MOZAMBIQUE
SH. SHOAYB AHMED
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. MOGAMAT ALEXANDER
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. MOGAMAT FAADIEL ARNOLD
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. SHUAIBU SHEHU ALIYU
NIGERIA
DR. BLANCE ASSAM
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. ABDULLAH BAYAT
SOUTH AFRICA
USTAATH JAFAR BEYA
DRC CONGO
MR. EBRAHIM BOFELO
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. IMRAAN BUCCUS
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. ZEINOUL ABEDIEN CAJEE
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. MUHAMMED SHAAHID CASSIM
SOUTH AFRICA
PROF. SULEMAN DANGOR
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. CASSIEM DE WET
SOUTH AFRICA
MRS. HAFSSA EL-BOUHAMOUCHI
GERMANY
MR. THEMBISA FAKUDE
SOUTH AFRICA
YASMINA FRANCKE
SOUTH AFRICA
SH. DR. MUHAMMAD RIDWAAN GALANT
SOUTH AFRICA
MS. SELLINA GADA
MALAWI
DR. HALIM GENÇOĞLU
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. EZGI GUNER
UNITED KINGDOM
DR. MOHAMED NATHEEM HENDRICKS
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. RIFAT HENDRICKS
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. QURAYSHA ISMAIL SOOLIMAN
SOUTH AFRICA
MRS. MAHMUDAH BEGUM
SOUTH AFRICA
SH. THULANI LANGA
SOUTH AFRICA
PROF. ALFRED JANA MATIKI
MALAWI
MR. JOSEPH YUSUFU MBALAKA
SOUTH AFRICA
PROF. TAWFFEEK MOHAMED
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. SHAFIEKA MOOSA
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. SHAFIQ MORTON
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. CHAPANE MUTIUA
MOZAMBIQUE
DR. LUBNA NADVI
SOUTH AFRICA
PROF. HAMZA NJOZI
TANZANIA
PROF. SINDILE AMINA NGUBANE
SOUTH AFRICA
SH. FAKRUDDIN OWAISI
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. EBRAHIM PATEL
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. ABDUD-DAIYAAN PETERSEN
SOUTH AFRICA
Mr. MOSADEQ SAHEBDIN
MAURITIUS
MR. EDWIN SALIM SAIDOO
BOTSWANA
MR. EBRAHIM SALIE
SOUTH AFRICA
MS. ZARA SCHROEDER
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. FATIMA CHEIKH
SOUTH AFRICA
DR. SH. DAWOOD TERBLANCHE
SOUTH AFRICA
PROF. SADIQ UNAY
TURKEY
PROF. YUSEF WAGHID
SOUTH AFRICA
MR. ILIYASA YASINI
SOUTH AFRICA
Programme: Day 1
FRI 16 SEPT
Islamia Auditorium
OPENING SESSION
Mr. Nazir Osman - Chairman Islamia College
Zeinoul Abedien Cajee - Awqaf SA CEO
Prof. AB Senghore - Deputy Director General IRCICA
Mr Rhazoui Lhoucine - Director of Cultural Affairs OIC
The Honourable Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis - Opening Remarks by the Executive Mayor City of Cape Town
Advocate Hafez AB Mohamed - Opening Remarks Chairman IPSA
Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool -Opening Remarks to the Congress
8:55am - 10:00am
Panel 1: Muslim Communities - Question of Identity
Chairperson: Prof. Suleman Dangor (UKZN) Bio
Presenters
Sh. Zaid Langa (Unisa) Islam in South African Townships and Rural Areas: A Phenomenological Approach.
Mr. Themba Fakude: (AFRASID) Towards understanding the rise of Afro-Muslim culture in South Africa .
Prof. Sindile Amina Ngubane (UNISA) Black Muslims Women's Presence in Religions and Educational matters in South Africa.
Dr. Ezgy Guner (EU) Curating the Islamic Heritage of Cape Town: History, memory and Muslim communities in museums.
10:00am - 11:30am
Special Panel: Arabic Roundtable
The Arabic Roundtable at the Congress (17 September 2022) brings a selected coterie of scholars, language activists, and practitioners together to share their ideas of Arabic teaching; some of them will describe their personal experiences, and others will offer examples of the challenges that they face in and outside the classroom in teaching and learning the language. The Arabic Roundtable plans to focus on in institutions and their programme: the one is to reflect critically on their programmes, and the other is to discuss the value of the texts that used in the teaching of Arabic for different groupings within the communities where they offer classes.
Moderator: Prof. Tawffeek Mohamed (UWC) - Bio
Panels Speakers
Dr. Intisar E (Madina Institute) - Bio
Dr. Sh. Shoayb Ahmad (Pretoria) - Bio
Dr. Fatima Cheik (Al Ghazali College) - Bio
Prof. Belqes Al - Sowaidi (IPSA) - Bio
Sh. Ebrahiem Moos (UCT)
11:30am - 12:30pm
Break
Jumuah Prayers
Lunch
12:30pm - 14:00pm
Panel 2: SADC Muslim Communities
Moderator: Prof. A. Senghore (IRCICA)
Presenters
Prof. Alfred Matiki (Iqra University - Malawi): A Socio-cultural Profile of the Muslim Community in Malawi - Bio
Ustaz Jafar Beya (Congo): DRC’s Muslim Communities. - Bio
Mr. Salim Saidoo (University of Botswana): Botswana Muslims - Their Nation-Building and Humanitarian Contributions since Independence (1966) - Bio
Mr. Iliyasa Yasini (Zimbabwe): Traversing the Chuo trajectory among Yao Muslims during the Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwean Era - Bio
Mr. Abdud-Daiyaan Petersen (Cape Family Research Form): The Issue of Muslim Genealogy in South Africa - Bio
14:00pm - 15:30pm
Panel 3: Ajami, Mushafs, and Language
Moderator: Prof. S. Unay - Bio
Presenters
Dr. Chapane Mutiua (EMU) - The cultural heritage of Islam in Mozambique: the case of Ajami manuscript culture. - Bio
Sh Fakhruddin Owaisi (Madina Institute): On Mushafs at the Cape Qur'anic Manuscripts at the Cape: An overview. - Bio
Mr. Mogamat Alexander (Independent Researcher): Foreign loanwords in the Cape Muslim vernacular. - Bio
Dr. Mogamat Fadiel Arnold (ICRA): Building the Self-worth of the Cape Muslims and Beyond. - Bio
15:30pm - 17:00pm
Panel 4: Women, Youth, and Children
Moderator: Dr. Blance Assam (UWC) - Bio
Presenters
Dr. Shafieka Moos (UCT): Maternal Identity and Religious Subjectivity: A Confluence of Aims - Bio
Mr. Joseph Mbalaka (UKZN): Yao Women Malawi Malawian Yawo Muslim women Migrants: Home and Belonging, negotiating identity in South Africa - Bio
Dr. Cassiem de Wet (Al Waagah: Institute for the Deaf) South Africa's (Muslim) Deaf: A Marginalized Community - Bio
Dr. Shuaibu Shehu Aliyu (Ahmadu Bello Univ): The Role of the Muslim Students Organisations in Nigeria and South Africa in the Preservation of Islamic Cultural Values Among the Muslim Youth: A Comparative Analysis - Bio
17:00pm - 18:30pm
Day 2
SAT 17 SEPT
Islamia Auditorium
Panel 5: Muslim Media
Moderator: Mr. Mahmood Sanglay (Muslim Views) - Bio
Presenters
Dr. Imraan Buccus (UKZN, School for International Training: SIT, Al-Qalam): The history of Al Qalam from its inception in the 1970s - Bio
Ms. Zara Schroeder (Research ICT Africa): How South African Muslim women influencers negotiate the self on Instagram - Bio
Ms. Sellina Siffat (Insight Mag - Blantyre) Positive Impact of Insight Magazine on Islam - Bio
Mr. Mosadeq Sahebdin (Consumer Advocacy Platform, Mauritius) Muslims contribution to the Media Development and Muslim Media in Mauritius - Bio
Mr. Mahmood Sanglay (Muslim Views): Media in the Muslim World: Independence, Public Interest, and Ethical Journalism - Bio
8:30am - 10:00am
Panel 6: Muslim Leadership
Chairperson: Dr. Samet Yalcin (IRCICA)
Presenters
Dr. Lubna Nadvi (UKZN): Re-defining “Islamic” Leadership in the Contemporary South African Context: Some Reflections and Observations
Mr. Ebrahim Salie (Historian and Independent Researcher): Hadje Ozeer Ally, Imam Abdul Kadir Bawazeer and the Hamidia Islamic Society: A study in “Muslim Indian” resistance, 1906-1909
Dr. Sh. Shoayb Ahmed (Unisa): Intellectual and educational history in South Africa with specific focus on the contributions of three 21st century South African scholars
Dr. Halim Gencoglu (UCT): First Black Military Pilot of the World: Ahmet Ali Celikten (1883 – 1969)
10:00am - 11:30am
Special Panel - Shaykh Ebubekir Effendi
When Shaykh Ebubekir Effendi was selected to go to the Cape of Good Hope to serve the growing Muslim community, he had little or no knowledge except that which was shared via governmental channels. Since the Shaykh's arrival at the beginning of 1860s until his death in 1889, he served the community handsomely. This panel gathered three panellists together to reflect on the "the man with a mission." While the one of the panellists wrote an informative biography that will be launched at this Congress, the other also penned a text that focussed on the Shaykh's educational efforts among the community; and the third panellist, who is one of the Shaykh's educational efforts among the community; and the fourth panellist, who is one of the Shaykh's descendants, will also share his thoughts of his great-grandfather.
Moderators: Prof. Mahmoud Erol Kilic and Ambassador Aysegul Kandas
Panel Speakers:
Prof. Yusuf Waghied - Bio
Shafiq Morton - Bio
Dr. Halim Gencoglu - Bio
Heshaam Effendi - Bio
11:30am - 13:00pm
Break
Thuhr Prayers
Lunch
13:00pm - 14:00pm
Memorial Panel: Imam Haron Foundation (with IRCICA, Awqaf SA-UWC)
The Imam Haron Foundation usually organises an annual lecture complementing the work that was undertaken by the Imam Haron Educational Trust for the past three years, this task shifted to IHF. For September 2022, IHF departed from the IAHET in two ways: the first was it shifted the date to an earlier one in order that it forms part of the IRCICA-AwqafSa-UWC partnership since the triumvirate agreed to dedicate this Congress to the memories of two iconic Muslim personalities; the one is Shaykh Ebubekir Efendi (d.1880) and the other is Imam Abdullah Haron (1969). The latter, who was detained by the South African Security Branch during May 1969, was eventually killed on 27 September 1969 by the SB whilst he was still in prison; this because of his anti-apartheid activities since he became Imam during 1955. For almost 15 years he demonstrated the need to speak out and work against an inhumane racist system. For this panel, IHF gathered five individuals who will converse about different aspects related to the Imam and his legacy.
Chairperson: Professor Monwabisi Ralarala (Dean of Humanities - UWC)
Panelists
Ms. Fatima Haron-Masoet (Imam Haron Foundation Secretary)
Zenzile Khoisan (Former TRC Investigator)
Ms. Jamia Galant (UCT and CMRM Chairperson)
Mr. Khalid Shamis (UWC-IHF)
Father Micheal Weeder (Dean of Cape Town Anglican Communion)
14:00pm - 15:30pm
Panel 7: Muslim Tertiary Institutions and Research:
Moderator: Moulana Ashraf Dockrat (University of Johannesburg)
Presenters
Prof. Hamza Njozi: On MUM Reforming Institutions of Higher Education in Southern Africa: A Plea for Transdisciplinarity
Dr. Sh Dawood Terblanche (Islamic Peace College of South Africa: IPSA) The International Peace College South Africa’s (IPSA) role in the preservation of Islam’s universal message of wasatiyyah within the paradigm of Maqasid al-Islam in South Africa
Sh. Muktar Ahmed (Madina Institute): Madina Institute's Formation and Progress.
Dr. Abdullah Bayat (UWC) Providing a Research Paradigm for Muslim Researchers.
15:30pm - 17:00pm
Panel 8: Economic, Development, & Heritage
Moderator: Mr. Raaghib Najaar (Afripeak)
Presenters
Prof. Sadik Unay (IRCICA) - Post Colonial Narratives of Development: The Case of Muslim Minorities in Africa
Mr. Ebrahim Patel (SiyaXoxa Technologies): Economic Development of Muslim Communities
Mr. Rifat Hendricks (UWC): Muslim Entrepreneurs' responses to Covid-19 economic adversity: A qualitative analysis
Mr. Ebrahim Bofelo (PSA) Examining the Challenges and the Possibilities for Implementation of Islamic principles of Economic Development in South Africa.
17:00pm - 18:30pm
Day 3
SUN 18 SEPT
Islamia Auditorium
Panel 9: Leadership
Moderator: Mr. Ebrahim Bofelo (Lawyer)
Presenters
Dr. Quraysha Ismail Sooliman (UP): Islamophobia Challenging the Pirates: Islamophobia in South Africa.
Dr. Natheem Hendricks (University of the Western Cape: UWC) Islamophobia Are security think-tanks benevolent? Islamophobia and the construction of Muslims as extremists and terrorists
Prof. Yussuf Adam (Eduardo Modlane University: EMU): Northern Mozambique Extremism in Northern Mozambique: Towards a Peace Pact
Dr. Sh. Muneer Abduraof (UWC/MJC) and Sh. Ismail Mohamed (MJC) Challenges faced by Islamic institutions when preserving the Islamic identity within the South African Constitutional Democracy: A case study on a Fatwaa issued by the MJC
Ms. Hafssa El-Bouhamouchi (OBU): Application of Islamic Law at the MJC in the Secular State of South Africa
8:30am - 10:00am
Panel 10: NGOs and Environmental Affairs
Moderator: Dr. Lubna Nadvi (UKZN)
Presenters
Mrs. Yasmina Francke (SANZAF): The Role of Muslim NGOs in sustainable development in Africa
Prof Alparslan Açıkgenç (Ibn Haldun University): The Role of the Awqaf in Educational Systems in Islamic Civilization
Dr. Sh. Ridwaan Gallant (UWC-MJC) Toward water sustainability in a water stress urban environment with reference to the Western Cape, South Africa.
Mr. Muhammed Shahid Cassim (CT) History, Contemporary State, & Future Perspectives Going Green in Cape Town
Zeinoul Abedien Cajee (Awqaf SA): Reflections on Awqaf SA in and beyond South Africa.
10:00am - 11:30am
Plenary Session
Congress Resolutions & Closing
11:30am - 13:00pm
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