CASIS Students' Meeting with Professor Al-Attas

Venue: CASIS-UTM, Kuala Lumpur

Date: 2012
Present: Professor Al-Attas, Prof. Wan Mohd Nor, Prof. Zainiy Uthman, Dr. Khalif Muammar, Dr. Syamsuddin Arif, all MA and PhD students.

Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation (CASIS)

An institute that seeks to inculcate authentic Islamic knowledge and profound understanding of other historic civilisations and the contemporary world.

The Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science, and Civilisation (CASIS) is a new centre of excellence at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and is linked to the Faculty of Islamic Civilisation (FTI).

CASIS seeks to promote post-graduate scholarship and learning for the advancement of knowledge in the fields of study relating to Islam, Science, and Civilisation and their allied sciences under the ambit of the worldview of Islam in full cognisance of relevant developments in other civilisations, especially in the contemporary world.

The Concept of Religion in Islam

By Prof. Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

The concept couched in the term din, which is generally understood to mean religion, is not the same as the concept religion as interpreted and understood throughout Western religious history. When we speak of Islam and refer to it in English as a ‘religion’, we mean and understand by it the din¹, in which all the basic connotations inherent in the term din are conceived as gathered into a single unity of coherent meaning as reflected in the Holy Qur’an and in the Arabic language to which it belongs.