{"id":118940,"date":"2017-12-06T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=118940"},"modified":"2017-12-06T07:49:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T23:49:22","slug":"prof-zaheer-on-more-positive-move-to-resolve-humanitarian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=118940","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Zaheer on more positive move to resolve humanitarian crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Ammar Abdullah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 6 December 2017- Taking the immigrants and refugee issue towards a more positive and larger context could help solve this humanitarian crisis, according to Prof. Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, a history professor from University of Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Taking the issues of dissemination of knowledge and Islamic cultures by these peoples is a positive context and crucially needed to be debated,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Saiyid Zaheer highlighted the issue in his keynote address entitled &#8220;Migration, Refugees and the Dissemination of Knowledge: Expansion of \u02dcIslamic Culture and the \u02dcMigrant Elites&#8221;, at the commencement of the conference yesterday (5 December).<\/p>\n<p>\u0153These people arriving from various cities and towns have brought the elements of \u02dcIslamic culture with them. Due to their presence, a number of <em>maktab<\/em> and <em>madrasah<\/em> were established in these towns and other centres to cater for the need of emerging Muslim population,\u009d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day International Conference on Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Issues and Shifting Paradigms (ICMR2017) is currently being held with one goal in mind &#8211; to solve and end this crisis worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153The world is making efforts to provide them with humanitarian aid, not trying to solve or end the crisis,\u009d Prof. Zaheer said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that the human suffering goes on due to the helplessness of the world bodies in disciplining its members beyond the lip service.<\/p>\n<p>This conference with 16 sessions altogether will deliberate on paper presentations with highlights on these issues as a theme. Among the panelists are academicians from countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference held from 5 until 7 December at the Senate Hall, is organised by the Department of History and Civilisation, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ammar Abdullah GOMBAK, 6 December 2017- Taking the immigrants and refugee issue towards a more positive and larger context could help solve this humanitarian&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118951,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118940\/revisions\/118951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}