Doha: Qatar’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has held the second seminar in the fourth season of its Ummah Seminar series, focusing on the role of revelation in shaping Islamic civilisation.
Organised by the Ministry’s Department of Islamic Research and Studies, the event brought together academics and researchers from Qatar University’s College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, as part of efforts to strengthen intellectual awareness and revive Islamic knowledge traditions.
Speaking at the seminar, Sheikh Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Thani, Director of the department, said revelation was the foundation of knowledge production in Islamic civilisation, stressing that scholarly output emerged from an integrated relationship between revelation and reason, rather than from abstract intellect alone.
He said this balanced interaction had enabled sustained scientific and intellectual contributions across generations, adding that the seminar aimed to explore ways to revive this legacy in addressing contemporary challenges.
The seminar featured three main presentations. Dr Mohammed Abdullah discussed the theoretical roots of knowledge production in Islamic civilisation, highlighting the complementarity between reason and revelation.
Dr Abdullah Al Khatib examined the principles that ensured the continuity of Islamic intellectual output, emphasising the integration of religious and worldly sciences.
In the final session, Dr Abdulsalam Abu Samha addressed future perspectives on knowledge, warning against separating reason from revelation and outlining ethical and methodological standards governing knowledge in Islamic thought.
The Ummah Seminar is held quarterly and is one of the ministry’s key cultural and intellectual initiatives aimed at addressing pressing social and intellectual issues through scholarly dialogue.
