The Department of Islamic Research and Studies at the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs will hold a series of intellectual and cultural seminars starting from Tuesday, in celebration of the Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al-Thani International Endowment Prize.
The first intellectual seminar will be held at Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Centre under the title 'Citizenship and the jurisprudence of belonging'.
It is the same title as the prize for its 13th year, the department said in a statement Monday.
The event features the participation of the professor of Contemporary Jurisprudence at Qatar University’s College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Dr Abdel Qader Jedi.
The statement added that on the sidelines of the seminar, prize winner Dr Abd al-Salam Riah from Morocco will be honoured, and the procedures for printing winning research will be announced, in addition to embarking on translating it into international languages such as English and French.
He will address the ideas and viewpoints he recorded in his winning research concerning the key themes of the topic on the methods of entrenching national identity values represented in the Holy Qu'ran, the Prophet's Sunnah, the life of the Companions, heritage, language, coexistence, acquaintance, dialogue and freedom of belief.
Dr Riah will highlight the circles of belonging, the relationship between affiliation to homeland and allegiance to the creed, the problem of belonging between the nation and the state, citizenship in non-Muslim countries, citizenship and current challenges of globalisation, as well as international alliances, UN resolutions, citizenship, integration and human rights.
In addition, he will focus on the basics of citizenship, which are demonstrated in justice, security, equality, equity of opportunity, full participation and entitlement to natural benefits.
The seminar comes as an extension to previous intellectual and cultural seminars along the course of the prize established by the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs in 1998, as a contribution to further encourage scientific research, in pursuit of creating a generation of scholars in the fields of multiple Sharia sciences to be the first and biggest endowment prize in the area of culture, Dawah and Islamic thought in Qatar.
