Author: Ali Salman I am sitting in the KL Summit 2019, which is largely seen now as an alternative to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) platform. This was one of the questions which the Al Jazeera team asked me yesterday in an interview. Just today, the OIC secretariat, in a veiled criticism of this…
October 29th, 2016 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Holiday Hotel 09.30 – 11.00 am Perspectives on Islam, Free Society and Market Economy PROGRAM: Edo Omerčević, Center for Advancement of Free Enterprise, Zenica Opening Speech Ozlem Caglar Yılmaz, Association for Liberal Thinking, Istanbul “The Challenges and Requirements in Contemporary Muslim Societies” Linda Whetstone, Network for…
Date: 11th June 2016 (Saturday) Time: 02:00pm – 04:30pm Venue: Baglarbasi Congress Center, Uskudar, Istanbul Jointly organised by Association for Liberal Thinking, and Istanbul Network for Liberty Economist Benedikt Koehler’s Book Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism is published in Turkish by Liberte Books Association for Liberal Thinking welcomes Dr. Benedikt Koehler in Istanbul to…
Date : 25th February 2016 (Thursday) Time : 03:00pm – 05:00pm Venue : IAIS Malaysia Jointly organised by IAIS Malaysia, IDEAS and Istanbul Network Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis; that capitalism first emerged in Arabia, not in late medieval Italian city states as is commonly assumed. Early Islam…