Colloquium December 2023

The project held its first in person colloquium from 11-15  December 2023 at the University of Cambridge.

Stakeholder Workshop 11-12 December 2023

The first two days involved a stakeholder meeting with educators, academics, and theologians coming together to discuss the renewal of Islamic educational models. This resulted in a White Paper titled ‘Roadmap to Renewal: Islamic educational theory into practice’, which was officially launched in an online webinar on 18 Feb 2025.

Academic Colloquium 13-15 December 2023

Following the stakeholder meeting, project members Dr Farah Ahmed; Dr Nadeem Memon and his colleague Dylan Chown; Dr Claire Alkouatli; Dr Amaarah DeCuir and her colleague Rehenuma Azmi; Dr Fella Lahmar, and Dr Safaruk Chowdhury presented their previous work on the field of K-12 Islamic Education Studies as well as their priorities for future research and scholarship. Members also critiqued and further developed the three Cambridge Dialogues Position Papers. 

Cambridge Dialogues sees itself as a project building on the work of those who proceeded us; in particular that of scholars who held the World Conferences on Muslim Education in the late 20th century and the work of Syed Ali Ashraf at Islamic Academy, Cambridge, which housed the Muslim Education Quarterly journal. We were honoured to be addressed by Shaikh Abdul Mabud, a student of Syed Ali Ashraf and his successor at the Islamic Academy, Cambridge. Shaykh Abdul Mabud succeeded has written about Syed Ali Ashraf and about the World Conferences on Muslim Education.

Colloquium December 2025

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