THEMATIC WORKSHOP ON STRENGTHENING ZAKAT FOR SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (10 and 11 November 2015)/ 28 and 29 Muharram 1437)

ORGANIZERS: Sharia Faculty, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University, Malang – Indonesia, and Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI/GIDB), Jeddah

†DATES: November 10-11, 2015

† VENUE: Ir Soekarno Auditorium, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University, Malang, Indonesia

 CALL FOR PAPERS

IRTI organizes periodical discussion on specific Islamic philanthropy issues with the objective to extending the success experience on current zakat management to the international level with the concrete projects.

Best Practices, advanced experiences, researchers and related regulators are expected to join this workshop aiming to design a better zakat management project in the future

The main characteristics of this workshop are: a strongly operative perspective, presentations by experts including regulators, best practices from practitioners, participation of a limited number of attendants (few best selected papers).

There are 3 different lines of workshop:

“ Practices”: discussion and presentations of worldwide best practices of zakat management models

“ Regulations”: discussion and presentations of the current challenges and opportunities in developing zakat for socio economic development from the perspective of regulators

“ Researches”: discussion and presentations of the related empirical researches

Expected output from the workshop is list of action and concrete project possibilities which combines businesses with zakat funds for benefit of ummah from socio and economic perspectives.

IRTI will prepare brief and concrete synthesis reports on the results of the workshop that will be sent to the participants.

Several suggested topics are as follows:

a.       Challenge and opportunities in developing zakat

b.      Developing Zakat with other philanthropy instruments

c.       Best practices of zakat

d.      Zakat from regulation perspective

e.       Zakat in historical Perspectives

 IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline Submission of Full Paper: July 31, 2015

Final Decision on Paper: August 15, 2015

Workshop: November 10-11, 2015

TICKETS AND HOTEL:

Authors of the accepted papers will be covered for round-trip economy class air ticket and hotel accommodation during the workshop

PROCEEDING/PUBLICATION

This workshop is intended as a meeting of minds among thinkers, scholars and practitioners (maximum 40 persons). The papers presented at the discussion will be reviewed for consideration to publish in a textbook that will be published by IRTI

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