{"id":269,"date":"2012-05-23T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/?p=269"},"modified":"2014-05-01T12:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:48:58","slug":"casis-at-uni-of-chicagoan-evening-on-islam-and-muslims-in-indonesia-and-malaysia-%e2%80%93-may-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/casis-at-uni-of-chicagoan-evening-on-islam-and-muslims-in-indonesia-and-malaysia-%e2%80%93-may-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"CASIS&#8217; Director in Chicago University: An Evening on Islam and Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia \u2013 May 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOn Wednesday, May 16th at 6:00pm Professor Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud will  present on \u201cIslam and Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia.\u201d Daud will  highlight new developments within the regions and discuss Indonesian and  Malaysian cultures and traditions. Both\u00a0countries\u00a0play an important  role in cultivating religious pluralism. Daud will discuss how we can  learn from their example in our own society.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIndonesia has developed a shared identity defined by a national  language, ethnic diversity, religious pluralism within a majority Muslim  population, and a history of colonialism and rebellion against it.  Indonesia\u2019s national motto,\u00a0<em>\u201cBhinneka Tunggal Ika\u201d<\/em> (\u201cUnity in Diversity\u201d\u00a0<em>literally,<\/em> \u201cmany, yet one\u201d), articulates the diversity that shapes the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>WHEN: <\/strong>Wednesday, May 16th from 6pm to 9pm<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>WHERE: <\/strong>CAIR-Chicago\u2019s Gallery, 28 E. Jackson Blvd, Suite 1700<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>COST: <\/strong>Free!<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>RSVP REQUIRED (limited seating): <\/strong>e-mail gallery@cairchicago.org<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>WHO:<\/strong> Professor Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud, Malik Mujahid (moderator)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>About Professor Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProfessor Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud serves as director of Center for  Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation (CASIS), Universiti  Teknologi Malaysia. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of  Chicago under the late Fazlur Rahman in 1988, he was invited by Syed  Muhammad Naquib al-Attas to assist him at the newly established  International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in  all the formal and non-formal academic development including library,  publication and student affairs. From 1998-2002 he served as the deputy  director of ISTAC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom 2008 to February 2011 he served as principal research fellow at  the Institute of the Malay World and Civilisation (ATMA), Universiti  Kebangsaan Malaysia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProfessor Wan Mohd Nor has written more than 13 books and monographs  as well as more than 30 academic articles in local and international  journals. He is an expert on Indonesian and Malaysian Islam.\u00a0He is the  last president of MSA before it transformed into ISNA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cairchicago.org\/2012\/05\/09\/an-evening-on-islam-and-muslims-in-indonesia-and-malaysia-may-16th\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cairchicago.org\/2012\/05\/09\/an-evening-on-islam-and-muslims-in-indonesia-and-malaysia-may-16th\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 16th at 6:00pm Professor Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud will present on \u201cIslam and Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia.\u201d Daud will highlight new developments within the regions and discuss Indonesian and Malaysian cultures and traditions. Both\u00a0countries\u00a0play an important role in cultivating religious pluralism. Daud will discuss how we can learn from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","tag-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/casis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}