Tabah Foundation, in collaboration with Cambridge Muslim College, inaugurated a conference at the University of Cambridge titled “Comprehensive Science and the System of Sciences.”
The conference delves into the revitalization of Islamic theology by revisiting fundamental questions of metaphysics and examining the viability of these questions in providing answers to the challenges posed by modern and postmodern philosophies. This project marks the initial step in Tabah Foundation’s endeavor to develop an Islamic knowledge model as part of its mission to contribute to the rehabilitation of contemporary Islamic discourse to encompass the human experience.
His Eminence Ali Al-Jafri delivered the opening keynote address, followed by welcome speeches from Sheikh Dr. Abdul Hakim Murad Winter, Professor at the University of Cambridge and Dean of Cambridge Muslim College, and Dr. Karim Al-Laham, Research Fellow at Tabah Foundation.
Subsequently, several papers were presented by scholars and academics from Belgium, Syria, Turkey, and the United States. These presentations were followed by a discussion session on the topics presented. Prominent topics discussed included: the differences in the concept of existence in various Islamic schools of thought, the evidence for the principle that the fundamentals of each science are derived from a higher science, culminating in metaphysics, and the teaching methods in authentic Islamic schools and their relationship to metaphysics and the concept of the human being.