Fostering Muslim Unity through Discourse and Collaboration
The Ummatics Colloquium is a series of ongoing seminars that bring together scholars, experts, and thought leaders to facilitate critical conversations on Muslim unity.
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A word loaded like no other, “caliphate” summons deep memories and desires for some and ominous fears for others. For some fourteen centuries, notwithstanding some discontinuities, the Muslim world had been synonymous with the caliphate. The loss of the Ottoman Caliphate after the First World War sent convulsive waves of shock and lament throughout the lands of Islam, the idea of its return inspiring numerous movements and intellectual projects. Many desktop
Areas of Focus
Political Theory
The political theory stream aims at deliberation and analysis through a critical ummatic lens of topics coming under political theory, broadly construed. This includes both descriptive/empirical questions of political science as well as prescriptive/normative concerns of political philosophy.
Geopolitics & International Relations
The geopolitics stream was convened to act as a crucible for new and inventive ways of thinking about international affairs with the ummatic discourse at its core. We believe that the first step to reviving this ummatic thought is to develop thinking and thinkers that observe the world’s challenges using this unique lens.
Society & Civilization
The society and civilization stream considers ways ummatic solidarity already animates Muslim life, looking at how the ummah informs Muslims’ lived experiences and how it is theorized/conceptualized. The stream complements the others by providing a space for the development of new forms of ummatic analyses, thought and strategies for societal transformation.
