13.10.18 | Entry: 12 PM
GRUGAHALLE ESSEN - Messeplatz 1, 45131 EssenProgram
13.10.2018 | GİRİŞ SAATİ: 12:00
GRUGAHALLE ESSEN - Messeplatz 1, 45131 EssenStudents’ day, referred to as UNIDAY, is one of the events that gather the young members of our community studying in different parts of the world. Starting in 2007 with “The Future in the Tradition” and celebrating the third program “Our dreams go back to the past” in 2011, UNIDAY is organized in 2014 with the subject of “When the thought sets off on the journey.” On October 13, 2018, we will meet for the fifth UNIDAY with the slogan “From knowledge to awareness”. Convinced that a healthy relationship with the past will enable a better understanding of the present and facilitate establishing a healthier future, the programme brings students together with some exemplary personalities who can serve them as role models. Colourful program of the day covers presentations of participants, masters of instrumental music of the East and the West, exhibitions of different branches of art and introduction of outstanding books.
Knowledge is one of the basic structures in our minds. That knowledge which the great thinker Taşköprülüzade Ahmed Efendi calls “the piety of thought” is since the past, the most basic concept. Those who produce it and master it can determine their direction. Knowledge that does not enter awareness does not cause action but only apparent habits and custom. In order to be able to make the transformation from knowledge to awareness,it requires a skillfulness and spiritualization of that knowledge. However, conscious knowledge is creating awareness, and from the internalized awareness it comes to virtue and morality.
Today we are in front of great challenges and testify technological developments that uproot the most dignified creature of its nature, such as possibilities of genetic manipulation, which could result in existential transformations of human existence and its lifeworld and discourses on artificial intelligence and future effects are not hardly calculable. Against this challenge we need great ideas and a collective awareness to accompany the knowledge of this age. The history has also shown that great thoughts arise mainly in environments where great challenges and major crises exist.
Those who have something to say in the face of challenges under the vault of heaven; to regain the ability to say “O Mankind!” to the Islamic world in a constructive manner that includes all of humanity with a consciousness of one’s identity, time and place and with an ownership of the rich wisdom of tradition and history, is our biggest concern. It is the concern to transform the essence and knowledge we own to principled consciousness, to construct a new understanding of the massive change brought by globalisation in order to build the foundation which will bring the birth of a collective intellect.
It is our sincerest wish to build the path for a generation which shares this concern.
In the words of the late Aliya Izzetbegović: “Lazy people live with their dreams. Hardworking people do not only verify their dreams, they take steps to implement and realise them.”
We are looking forward to welcoming you to IGMG Students’ 5th UNIDAY, a place where those who are on their journey to implement their dreams meet their fellow travellers.
Selçuk Çiçek
Chariman of the Students Department
Knowledge is one of the basic structures in our minds. That knowledge which the great thinker Taşköprülüzade Ahmed Efendi calls “the piety of thought” is since the past, the most basic concept. Those who produce it and master it can determine their direction. Knowledge that does not enter awareness does not cause action but only apparent habits and custom. In order to be able to make the transformation from knowledge to awareness,it requires a skillfulness and spiritualization of that knowledge. However, conscious knowledge is creating awareness, and from the internalized awareness it comes to virtue and morality.
Today we are in front of great challenges and testify technological developments that uproot the most dignified creature of its nature, such as possibilities of genetic manipulation, which could result in existential transformations of human existence and its lifeworld and discourses on artificial intelligence and future effects are not hardly calculable. Against this challenge we need great ideas and a collective awareness to accompany the knowledge of this age. The history has also shown that great thoughts arise mainly in environments where great challenges and major crises exist.
Those who have something to say in the face of challenges under the vault of heaven; to regain the ability to say “O Mankind!” to the Islamic world in a constructive manner that includes all of humanity with a consciousness of one’s identity, time and place and with an ownership of the rich wisdom of tradition and history, is our biggest concern. It is the concern to transform the essence and knowledge we own to principled consciousness, to construct a new understanding of the massive change brought by globalisation in order to build the foundation which will bring the birth of a collective intellect.
It is our sincerest wish to build the path for a generation which shares this concern.
In the words of the late Aliya Izzetbegović: “Lazy people live with their dreams. Hardworking people do not only verify their dreams, they take steps to implement and realise them.”
We are looking forward to welcoming you to IGMG Students’ 5th UNIDAY, a place where those who are on their journey to implement their dreams meet their fellow travellers.
Selçuk Çiçek
Chariman of the Students Department
Guests
Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki
Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki, former President of Tunisia and human rights defender, was born on 7th July in 1945. After studying medicine at the University of Strasbourg he went back to Tunisia on 1979. Before he joined to the Tunisian Association of Human Rights, he founded the Susa (Association) Medical Health Centre and the Network against Child Abuse. In his youth Marzouki went to India in order to follow the development of the peaceful resistance of Mahatma Gandhi. Then he went South Africa with the intention to analyse the Apartheid System. Because of several accusations like distributing false news he was sentenced to jail. Afterwards he founded the National Freedom Committee. He also achieved to be a member of the Arab Human Rights Commission, which member he still is. In 2001 he founded the Congress Party for the Republic and although his party was prohibited one year later, he continued his activities in France. On the Elections of the 23th October of 2011 his party was one of the coalition partners of government “Troika”. So on the 12th December 2011 Marzouki was elected as the President of Tunisia, which he did continue to do until December 2014.
Prof. Dr. Moncef Marzouki, former President of Tunisia and human rights defender, was born on 7th July in 1945. After studying medicine at the University of Strasbourg he went back to Tunisia on 1979. Before he joined to the Tunisian Association of Human Rights, he founded the Susa (Association) Medical Health Centre and the Network against Child Abuse. In his youth Marzouki went to India in order to follow the development of the peaceful resistance of Mahatma Gandhi. Then he went South Africa with the intention to analyse the Apartheid System. Because of several accusations like distributing false news he was sentenced to jail. Afterwards he founded the National Freedom Committee. He also achieved to be a member of the Arab Human Rights Commission, which member he still is. In 2001 he founded the Congress Party for the Republic and although his party was prohibited one year later, he continued his activities in France. On the Elections of the 23th October of 2011 his party was one of the coalition partners of government “Troika”. So on the 12th December 2011 Marzouki was elected as the President of Tunisia, which he did continue to do until December 2014.
Dr. İbrahim Halil Üçer
İbrahim Halil Üçer obtained his undergraduate degree in 2004 at the Faculty of Theology of Marmara University. In 2007, he defended his thesis titled “Abu Hayyan at-Tawhidi and His Philosophical Identity” at the Islamic Philosophy branch of the Institute of Social Sciences of the same university. In 2010-2011 he attended the Institute of Islamic Sciences of McGill University in Canada as a visiting researcher. In 2014, he obtained his doctorate in Islamic philosophy with his thesis titled “The Understanding of the Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”. Currently an Associate Professor at the Philosophy department of Istanbul Medeniyet University, Üçer has several publications amongst which “The Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”, “Ore and Existence” and “The Atlas of Islamic Thought.” His interests and works lie in the translation of Tashkopruluzade’s works, definitions of the human being in Islamic thought, Ibn Sina’s epistemology and the history of Islamic thought.
İbrahim Halil Üçer obtained his undergraduate degree in 2004 at the Faculty of Theology of Marmara University. In 2007, he defended his thesis titled “Abu Hayyan at-Tawhidi and His Philosophical Identity” at the Islamic Philosophy branch of the Institute of Social Sciences of the same university. In 2010-2011 he attended the Institute of Islamic Sciences of McGill University in Canada as a visiting researcher. In 2014, he obtained his doctorate in Islamic philosophy with his thesis titled “The Understanding of the Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”. Currently an Associate Professor at the Philosophy department of Istanbul Medeniyet University, Üçer has several publications amongst which “The Form in Ibn Sina’s Philosophy”, “Ore and Existence” and “The Atlas of Islamic Thought.” His interests and works lie in the translation of Tashkopruluzade’s works, definitions of the human being in Islamic thought, Ibn Sina’s epistemology and the history of Islamic thought.
Dr. Abdurrahman Reidegeld
Ahmad Abdurrahman Reidegeld is born in 1966 and studied Islamic Studies in Cologne. Later he lived in Oman and do fieldworks. One of his important works, which is published is a comprehensive manual (“Ilmihal”) on the four islamic law schools in German language. Six year study of African Studies, Malayology and Islamic Studies in Cologne with M.A. Reidegeld obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He leads courses at the Islamic Institute and is an Islamic teacher in Vienna. Further more he ist working on education in the ministry of foundation in the area of „Ifta“, the practical fatwa-speaking as well as on the administration of the foundation department. Dr. Reidegeld leads courses at the Islamic Institute and has been teaching at the IRPA in Vienna since 2001. He is a akademic islamic speacker for ‘Ulumul-quran,’ Ulumul-hadith, Sira, Islamic History, Ath-thaqafa and Introduction to Shari’a. In the European-German-Context Mr. Reidegeld ist the one of important islamic teacher, researcher and activist in german languange.
Ahmad Abdurrahman Reidegeld is born in 1966 and studied Islamic Studies in Cologne. Later he lived in Oman and do fieldworks. One of his important works, which is published is a comprehensive manual (“Ilmihal”) on the four islamic law schools in German language. Six year study of African Studies, Malayology and Islamic Studies in Cologne with M.A. Reidegeld obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He leads courses at the Islamic Institute and is an Islamic teacher in Vienna. Further more he ist working on education in the ministry of foundation in the area of „Ifta“, the practical fatwa-speaking as well as on the administration of the foundation department. Dr. Reidegeld leads courses at the Islamic Institute and has been teaching at the IRPA in Vienna since 2001. He is a akademic islamic speacker for ‘Ulumul-quran,’ Ulumul-hadith, Sira, Islamic History, Ath-thaqafa and Introduction to Shari’a. In the European-German-Context Mr. Reidegeld ist the one of important islamic teacher, researcher and activist in german languange.
UNITALK
The UNITALK’s motto will be “From students to students”. It will discuss topics that affect the future of ourselfes.
The UNITALK’s motto will be “From students to students”. It will discuss topics that affect the future of ourselfes.
Music
Le Trio Joubran
The brothers Samir (1973), Wissam (1983) and Adnan (1985) Joubran from Nazareth grew up in a family that has been studying the Oud instrument for four generations. Samir was the one, how started with a professional musical career. The first appearance as “Le Trio Joubran” was in 2004. In the year 2005 her deput album “Dandana” appwared as a assembly of the words “Ranna” and “Dandana”. The band released their second album “Majaz” in 2007. This album was released achieved fame as soundtrack of the French movie “Adieu Gary”, by Nassim Amaouche. In 2006, they received the Best Music Award for “Majaz” at the Sixth International Film Festival in Dubai. They gettinng by numerous awards for film music and composition, as well as “The Order of Merit and Excellence” for their career from the Palestinian National Authority in 2013.
The brothers Samir (1973), Wissam (1983) and Adnan (1985) Joubran from Nazareth grew up in a family that has been studying the Oud instrument for four generations. Samir was the one, how started with a professional musical career. The first appearance as “Le Trio Joubran” was in 2004. In the year 2005 her deput album “Dandana” appwared as a assembly of the words “Ranna” and “Dandana”. The band released their second album “Majaz” in 2007. This album was released achieved fame as soundtrack of the French movie “Adieu Gary”, by Nassim Amaouche. In 2006, they received the Best Music Award for “Majaz” at the Sixth International Film Festival in Dubai. They gettinng by numerous awards for film music and composition, as well as “The Order of Merit and Excellence” for their career from the Palestinian National Authority in 2013.
Calligraphy Art Exhibitions
Calligraphy artist and teacher: Mustafa Cemil Efe
He was born in Ankara in 1979, he begins in 2005 with handwriting courses of Rika Arts. At the same time, he began to study the traditional Turkish arts at Selçuk University in Konya. 2009 he completed his studies as one of the best graduates of the faculty. In the same year he received the permission of Prof. Dr. med. Fevzi Günuc, who was a pupil of the famous Calligrapher and artist Hamid Aytaç. He moved to Istanbul and started his second studies at Mimar Sinan University in 2010 at the faculty of traditional Turkish arts.
His art exhibitions have been taken place in Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, the Vatican, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, and the United States. For the first time, there will be a exhibition in Germany.
He is also a professional graphic artist and photographer. Mustafa Cemil Efe is also a author for art journals. His artistic skills are currently unique in the world. He is the only calligrapher whose works are also in the collection of the White House of the United States of America.
His art workshop is located in Üsküdar (Istanbul), where he continues to educate students and promote his work as an artist.
He was born in Ankara in 1979, he begins in 2005 with handwriting courses of Rika Arts. At the same time, he began to study the traditional Turkish arts at Selçuk University in Konya. 2009 he completed his studies as one of the best graduates of the faculty. In the same year he received the permission of Prof. Dr. med. Fevzi Günuc, who was a pupil of the famous Calligrapher and artist Hamid Aytaç. He moved to Istanbul and started his second studies at Mimar Sinan University in 2010 at the faculty of traditional Turkish arts.
His art exhibitions have been taken place in Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, the Vatican, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, and the United States. For the first time, there will be a exhibition in Germany.
He is also a professional graphic artist and photographer. Mustafa Cemil Efe is also a author for art journals. His artistic skills are currently unique in the world. He is the only calligrapher whose works are also in the collection of the White House of the United States of America.
His art workshop is located in Üsküdar (Istanbul), where he continues to educate students and promote his work as an artist.
Commemorating Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin
Fuat Sezgin was born 24.10.1924 in Bitlis (Turkey). Between 1943 and 1951 he studied at the University of Istanbul by the famous Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971) Islamic and Arabic Studies. After the military coup in 1960 he was forced to leave Turkey and traveled to Germany, where he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt.
Professor Sezgin is the author and publisher of numerous scientific standard works. His works include volumes on the history of the following disciplines: medicine, chemistry and alchemy, mathematics, astronomy and astrology, as well as poetry, grammar, lexicography, geography and cartography. He founded the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences in Frankfurt / Main and is still regarded as a pioneer in the study of the Islamic scientific culture. The husband and father Fuat Sezgin is considered the rediscoverer of lost Islamic historical science and because of his exceptional endurance and thoroughness he is a legend researcher of our time.
He is the recipient of several international awards for his extraordinary and above-average achievements. On June 30, 2018, Sezgin died at the age of 94 in his beloved Istanbul.
Fuat Sezgin was born 24.10.1924 in Bitlis (Turkey). Between 1943 and 1951 he studied at the University of Istanbul by the famous Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971) Islamic and Arabic Studies. After the military coup in 1960 he was forced to leave Turkey and traveled to Germany, where he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt.
Professor Sezgin is the author and publisher of numerous scientific standard works. His works include volumes on the history of the following disciplines: medicine, chemistry and alchemy, mathematics, astronomy and astrology, as well as poetry, grammar, lexicography, geography and cartography. He founded the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences in Frankfurt / Main and is still regarded as a pioneer in the study of the Islamic scientific culture. The husband and father Fuat Sezgin is considered the rediscoverer of lost Islamic historical science and because of his exceptional endurance and thoroughness he is a legend researcher of our time.
He is the recipient of several international awards for his extraordinary and above-average achievements. On June 30, 2018, Sezgin died at the age of 94 in his beloved Istanbul.
Social Project Proposal Competition
In the 21st century, humanity is facing serious crises. In the pas few years, the developments in the Middle East led to a refugee crisis that is significantly challenging Europe. Parallel to this, the rise of the far right and the increase of racist speech on a global level is affecting political discourse and is taking a more centralised place in social life. In addition to this all, the capitalist mode of living is seriously damaging our environment and leading to dangerous results such as air pollution, water pollution and loss of biodiversity. The refugee crisis, Anti-Racism and Environmental Protection are the main concerns we need to focus on currently.
Working with the aim to solve global challenges with global solutions, the Chairmanship of IGMG Students is organising a social project grant competition to deal with the projects of the refugee crisis, anti-racism and environmental protection. Those who wish to apply for the grant and take part in the competition, need to focus on one of these three issues and need to develop either a local or a global solution to the problem, which can in turn be presented generally. The selected projects shall be presented on UNIDAY on the 13th of October in Essen, Germay.
- Module: Refugee Crisis
What type of project relating to the refugee crisis can be run on a local or global level?
- Module: Anti-Racism
What type of project relating to combatting anti-racism, a phenomenon which is rising globally and taking centralised places in our social lives, can be run on a local or global level?
- Module: Environmental Protection
What type of project leading to creating efficient and sustainable awareness of environmental protection on a local or global level?
Requirements
- The applicant must be a university or high school student
- The project must be typed or written on an A4 page consisting of minimum 600 words
- The main language of the project must be Turkish, German or English
- The project must be explained in a PowerPoint presentation which will be sent together with the written application
- The project can be organised as an individual, but it must be run together with a recognised and official organisation/school/university or another institution.
Elements that must be included in the application
- Name of the project
- Name(s) of the project leader(s)
- Timeline of the project
- Location of the project
- Needed logistics of the project
- Financial plan of the project
Prizes
- A trip to an African country, to Bosnia or to Jerusalem.
In order to apply for the social grant competition, you must send us your Name, Birth Date, Address, e-mail address and phone number to info@uniday.org by 6 October 2018.
In the 21st century, humanity is facing serious crises. In the pas few years, the developments in the Middle East led to a refugee crisis that is significantly challenging Europe. Parallel to this, the rise of the far right and the increase of racist speech on a global level is affecting political discourse and is taking a more centralised place in social life. In addition to this all, the capitalist mode of living is seriously damaging our environment and leading to dangerous results such as air pollution, water pollution and loss of biodiversity. The refugee crisis, Anti-Racism and Environmental Protection are the main concerns we need to focus on currently.
Working with the aim to solve global challenges with global solutions, the Chairmanship of IGMG Students is organising a social project grant competition to deal with the projects of the refugee crisis, anti-racism and environmental protection. Those who wish to apply for the grant and take part in the competition, need to focus on one of these three issues and need to develop either a local or a global solution to the problem, which can in turn be presented generally. The selected projects shall be presented on UNIDAY on the 13th of October in Essen, Germay.
- Module: Refugee Crisis
What type of project relating to the refugee crisis can be run on a local or global level?
- Module: Anti-Racism
What type of project relating to combatting anti-racism, a phenomenon which is rising globally and taking centralised places in our social lives, can be run on a local or global level?
- Module: Environmental Protection
What type of project leading to creating efficient and sustainable awareness of environmental protection on a local or global level?
Requirements
- The applicant must be a university or high school student
- The project must be typed or written on an A4 page consisting of minimum 600 words
- The main language of the project must be Turkish, German or English
- The project must be explained in a PowerPoint presentation which will be sent together with the written application
- The project can be organised as an individual, but it must be run together with a recognised and official organisation/school/university or another institution.
Elements that must be included in the application
- Name of the project
- Name(s) of the project leader(s)
- Timeline of the project
- Location of the project
- Needed logistics of the project
- Financial plan of the project
Prizes
- A trip to an African country, to Bosnia or to Jerusalem.
In order to apply for the social grant competition, you must send us your Name, Birth Date, Address, e-mail address and phone number to info@uniday.org by 6 October 2018.
PLURAL Publications Bookstand
The PLURAL publisher is a young publishing house, which is working on developing of the rich Islamic literature. He intends to convey this diversity to Muslim and interested non-Muslim readers.
About us
Islamic Community Millî Görüş Students Department
IGMG Students’ Department offer various services for prospective Muslim students and graduates in order to help them to shape their lives in accordance with the requirements of their religious, historical and cultural identity; to raise them as self-confident young individuals, who can assume responsibility in the society. While doing this, it aims at that personalities who deal with scholarship identify their own positions with respect to facts of time and place.
The Students’ Department acts with the conviction that young Muslims should be in the position of producing new ideas and offering alternatives by understanding the present era and state of affairs in the light of Islamic values. In this respect, the department conducts various activities to bring knowledge seekers’ attention to knowledge and wisdom and concerns itself responsible for guiding those who seek for wisdom. By broadening students’ perspectives beyond their specific disciplines through opening up new horizons before them, the Students’ Department intends mainly to raise a new generation of Muslims with a vision for the future and something to say to the world.
The Students’ Department conducts its services with a committee and is active together with Community Development, Education, Public Relations and Student Residence and Bursary Units in 36 regions with its 350 administrators. Together with about 5500 members, the Students’ Department reaches 11000 students with its services.
IGMG Students’ Department offer various services for prospective Muslim students and graduates in order to help them to shape their lives in accordance with the requirements of their religious, historical and cultural identity; to raise them as self-confident young individuals, who can assume responsibility in the society. While doing this, it aims at that personalities who deal with scholarship identify their own positions with respect to facts of time and place.
The Students’ Department acts with the conviction that young Muslims should be in the position of producing new ideas and offering alternatives by understanding the present era and state of affairs in the light of Islamic values. In this respect, the department conducts various activities to bring knowledge seekers’ attention to knowledge and wisdom and concerns itself responsible for guiding those who seek for wisdom. By broadening students’ perspectives beyond their specific disciplines through opening up new horizons before them, the Students’ Department intends mainly to raise a new generation of Muslims with a vision for the future and something to say to the world.
The Students’ Department conducts its services with a committee and is active together with Community Development, Education, Public Relations and Student Residence and Bursary Units in 36 regions with its 350 administrators. Together with about 5500 members, the Students’ Department reaches 11000 students with its services.
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IGMG – Islamische Gemeinschaft Millî Görüş
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Tel.: +49 (0) 221 9422 40 756
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