Fri, 5 October 2012, 8pm | English

Seminar Room 2-4 School of Economics Singapore Management University

SMU Islamic Finance and Banking Society

Imam Afroz Ali

lecture, foreign scholar

Fees: $5

In the Name of the Divine the Most Merciful the Most Kind
SMU Islamic Business & Finance Society presents:

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series by Imam Afroz Ali.

Lecture: Economy, Poverty & The Consumer Market: Islam's Proposition for Solutions

Poverty is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand it has persisted for many around the worldin varied degrees in societies and communities around the world since recorded history, regardless of resource endowment, the stage of development, level of technology, social structure or culture. On the other hand, the GDP-based economy, driven by production and consumption, indicates wealth and prosperity for others.

This seminar seeks to explore the reality of poverty, wealth and prosperity, and how some of Islam’s heritage of Endowments, Wealth Transfer and Frugality has innovative solutions for the modern world. These traditional IslamicModels were able to solve the problems of poverty and provide much needed social services to the poor in the past. Given the pervasiveness of poverty in Muslim countries, it is important to investigate how these institutions can be used in contemporary times to alleviate poverty in the global world.

About the Speaker:

Imam Afroz Ali
Managing Director, Seekers Guidance
Founder & President, Al-Ghazzali Centre
(http://seekersguidance.org/teachers/afroz-ali)

- Born in Fiji and resident in Australia

- Completed formal studies at University of New South Wales

- Pursued Islamic studies at the University of Madina, moving to traditional Ijazaah based studies in US with Sh Hamza Yusuf, Yemen with Habib Umar Bin Hafiz & Mauritania with Shaykh Murabit al Hajj

- Specialist in Fiqh and the works of Imam Al Ghazali

- Managing Director of senior instructor at Seekers Guidance Online Academy

- Founder & president of Al-Ghazzali Centre for Islamic Sciences & Human Development

- Founder of Australian National Crescent Sighting Coordination Centre

- Founder of the Ansaar Project (philanthropic organisation based in Sydney)

- Recipient of the International Ambassador for Peace award

- An Australian Ambassador for the Charter for Compassion
Reads widely on environmental science, ethics and practical spirituality

- Passionately interested in ecology, well-being and human psychology

Date: Friday 5 October 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 2-4
School of Economics
Singapore Management University

Limited seats! Tickets $5 only!
Register now at http://smuibfstalk.eventbrite.com/

Programme:

07:30pm - Registration
08:00pm - Opening Remarks
08:10pm - Lecture by Imam Afroz Ali
09:30pm - Question & Answer Session
10:15pm - Closing Remarks
10:30pm - End of event

Seminar Room 2-4 School of Economics Singapore Management University