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This conference series was launched in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang during the

first ever conference on Islamic Political Economy held on 12-14 December 1994. It was attended by 120 Muslim as well as non-Muslim scholars from all over the

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world.

The theme of the first conference is 'Islamic Political Economy In Capitalist Globalization: An Agenda For Change'. This conference already held the view that the ad Deen as a world-global system should be the proper methodology in Islamic studies.

The conference has since evolved into a series held every two years and instituted as a USM tradition.

ISNET-USM established the GOLD DINAR RESEARCH GROUP that undertakes to promote Islamic currency (dinar, dirham and e-dinar).

This is a project aimed at networking traditional education entities, in the form of pondok, pesantren etc. with USM and other universities. The project involves the voluntary upgrading of the infrastructure and curriculum of these traditional education centres through the help of the campus community. New pondoks are also envisaged to be established following the concept of interactions between traditional and modern education system. A new educational route will be the outcome where traditions are not neglected but will be reinforced by the knowledge and understanding of the challenges of the time. The participating institutions include some pondoks and universities from Malaysia, Southern Thailand, Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, Morocco, Gambia and England.

Financial support will be through a waqf-based development mechanism and grants from government bodies and the private sector.

Note - This institution will be a feeder to the Perlis International Matriculation College which in turn will be the feeder to Achnagairn College, Scotland.

The college is a Centre for Higher Studies preparing students to become young graduates, fluent in Arabic and in English. These graduates will have the capability to be a Muslim leader in the worlds of Education, of Commerce and Business and of Government

Location:

The main campus will be located in the vicinity of Achnagairn House in Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, on a property of 40 acres of gardens and woodlands. Some courses will hopefully be offered at USM too.

Achnagairn College will offer Degrees in three main fields of study:

This will be a college feeder for Achnagairn College in Scotland. The college will be based in USM and in Perlis to serve as a preparatory institution for students to enter Achnagairn College after their SPM (or its equivalent ). The college will award a certificate (1 year) and a diploma (2 years). Basic subjects will be Arabic, English, World History, Qur'an, Fiqh and Computer Literacy. Students will come from all over the world.

Journal of Alternative Political Economy (JAPE) - ISSN 1511-3353

Chief Editor: Mohamad Abdad Mohamad Zain, Assoc. Prof.

Journal of Alternative Political Economy (JAPE) is dedicated to Islamic Political Economy. Islamic Political Economy articulates a holistic perspective of change in the integral-taqwa relations between insan and The Creator, between societal constituents and between sciences. On the plane of praxis, it is the pursuance of an ad Deen beyond the dialectics of laissez faire capitalism and collective - communism. It negates the politico/economic divide paradigm where thinking 'politically' is actually irrelevant to recognition of the power mechanisms of modern society and to think 'economically' is to accept the paradigm itself. Academically this is a transvaluation of dominant and paralysing societal values in dynamic transformative terms without resorting to the entrapping dialectical method.

JAPE is a bi-annual publication, launched in 1998 with an inaugural Volume 1, Number 1 in January 1999.

Islamic Political Economy in Capitalist-Globalization: An Agenda for Change

In Press

Islamic Political Economy: Accelerating the Emergence of Islam as a New World System

VOLUME I: ISLAMIC POLITICAL ECONOMY

Eds.: Ishak Che Long, Rozhan Mohammed Idrus, Salama Evans, Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim & Mohamad Abdad Mohamad Zain

VOLUME II: ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY, ARTS & CULTURE

Eds.: Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim, Rozhan Mohammed Idrus, Ishak Che Long, Abdalhamid Evans, & Mohamad Abdad Mohamad Zain

VOLUME III: NATURAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES

Eds.: Rozhan Mohammed Idrus, Ishak Che Long, Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim, Mustafa Fadzil Farid Wajidi & Mohamad Abdad Mohamad Zain

ISNET-USM and Madinah Press will jointly publish more than 30 international titles including the Islamic Classical Library Collection. This collection consists of translations of classical Islamic texts by Aisha Bewley and Co and supervised by Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi. The books are already of worldwide readership/demand. Immediately Universiti Sains Malaysia will be the publisher of titles of international standard. The tradition can be better than Oxford or Cambridge Univ Press.

Some of the books are The Noble Qur'an, Al - Muwatta, as -Shifa of Qadi 'Iyad, The Seals of Wisdom of Ibn Arabi, The Meaning of Man by Shaykh Ali al-Jamal, Tawassin of Mansur Alhallaj, The Way of Muhammad, Root Islamic Education, The Return of the Khalifate, Letter to An Arab Muslim etc

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