Sharjah International Foundation For The History Of Arab and Muslim Studies
Sharjah International Foundation For The History Of Arab and Muslim Studies

Foundation Departments

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Department of Sharia Sciences

Vision:

To provide leadership and excellence through offering innovative programs that serve the Sharia sciences, whether in the field of research, verification, investigation, translation, or bibliographic studies, in order to raise the profile of the contributions of Islamic Sharia scholars in the service of the Quran and Sunnah to demonstrate their impact on the various sciences.

Mission:

To investigate, publish and define the history of Sharia sciences and its pioneering scientists in promoting the path of human knowledge through preparing comprehensive databases in a number of languages that introduce aspects of their creativity and innovation locally, regionally and internationally. Additionally, the department aims to organize international conferences, symposia, and workshops, which acculturate and educate those interested in Islamic studies throughout the world.

Objectives:

  1. Restraint studies and researches which are specified and prevarication the manuscripts which are specified in distinct Islamic sciences.
  2. Training researchers in the arena of the historical Islamic sciences.
  3. Expanding the circle of communication and interacting with the attentive people or institution who are interested in the scientific traditional Islamic sciences.
  4. Observe what's published from serious research in historical sharia science arena and work on its translation and definition.

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Department of Humanities

Vision:

To provide excellency and innovation by offering a global and integrative vision to the history of humanities among Arab and Muslims in its various branches. To seek a new and modern presentation through research, verification and translation of scientific knowledge relative to the eminent scholars in humanities. To demonstrate the value of the outcomes and its contribution to the highlighting of Islamic civilization and the progress of humanities.

To safeguard and conserve the historical memory of the nation in its different branches of studies in humanities. To collect manuscripts and promote their investigation and translation. To maintain the continuity of the scientific heritage in the history of the nation. To develop researches to be capable to explore and discover the other by the dialogue to assure the continuity by the conferences and colloquium.

Objectives:

  1. Investigate, translate and publish the eminent manuscripts in different studies in humanities, Arab and Islamic branches.
  2. Define all components in history of humanities inside of the Arab and Islamic heritage circle.
  3. Demonstrate the value of the human sciences and its importance in the Arab and Islamic knowledge.
  4. Developing the capability and skills of researches in various stage of humanities.
  5. Collaborating with all common interest regional, national and international.
  6. Launch international research projects in Arab and Islamic humanities.
  7. Define the Arab and Islamic scientific competences to be promoted in educational system and different knowledge networking.

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Department of Languages and Translation

Vision:

To enlighten, educate and promote dialogue with others through the translation of Arab and Muslim scientific heritage in order to raise the profile of Arab and Muslim scientists in the various fields of sciences and their continuous efforts in the service of humanity, and to promote scientific progress in the world.

Mission:

To raise awareness among various peoples of the world about the accomplishments of Arab and Muslim scientists in diverse scientific fields through the translation of these accomplishments to the greatest number of languages possible, highlight their influence on the growth of scientific knowledge and its development globally and affirm the capacity of the Arabic language to express the sciences accurately.

  1. Form work teams of competent translators with expertise in the scientific translation of Arabic to English, in the first stage, and to other important languages in the following stages.
  2. Translate Arabic scientific books, studies and manuscripts of distinctive scientific value that have not previously been translated into English and other modern languages.
  3. Publish mini science encyclopedias in numerous languages to create awareness among the new generation of scholars on the various scientific theories, achievements, and innovations of Arab and Muslim scientists throughout the ages and the impact of their accomplishments on what the world has achieved of progress in the fields of science and civilization.
  4. Review what has been published of translations on the accomplishments of Arab and Muslim scientists with the aim of revising them to eliminate gaps and errors in translation and to add to their contents, indices, terminology and other aspects to enhance their scientific and professional value.

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Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Vision:

The Department of Medical, Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences inspires pioneering in reviving the role of Arab and Muslim Scientists in medical, health and pharmaceutical sciences as to represent their scientific achievements locally, regionally and internationally in order to revive the generation memory and build the motivating culture for scientific research and creativity for establishing a sustainable society of knowledge in the country.

Mission:

To provide high standards of scientific researches and innovations for evoking the scientific achievements of the Arab and Muslim Scientists in medical, health and pharmaceutical sciences in order to highlight their role and impact on the modern sciences.

Objectives:

  1. Establishing a comprehensive database containing the Arab and Muslim Scientists in medical, health and pharmaceutical sciences as to be internationally available for generating the desired impact on awareness and scientific research.
  2. Initiating a project of verifying and publishing the scientific researches on the achievements of Arab and Muslim Scientists in medical, health and pharmaceutical sciences.
  3. Establishing communication channels with the scientific centers concerned with the Arabic and Islamic heritage in medical, health and pharmaceutical sciences for exchanging experiences via organizing conferences, seminars and visit exchange with the scientific research centers.

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Department of Pure and Applied Sciences

Vision:

The Department of Pure and Applied Sciences strives to achieve preeminence and uniqueness in the region and all over the Muslim worlds, by providing a positive environment for Muslim outreach services in education, offering exceptional programs in history and heritage that are based upon the contributions of Arab and Muslim scholars in both pure and applied sciences. The Department aims to highlight the achievement of those scholars to explain their discoveries to the impact of those discoveries on the modern sciences and to underline the continuity of this legacy with the contemporary world. The Department looks forward to be a distinguished international center reconnecting the community with its history and heritage and supplying promising horizon for future generation.

Mission:

The Department of Pure and Applied Sciences endeavors to be home of the scholars interested in the Arab's and Muslim's history of pure and applied sciences. The Department strives to provide the community with a comprehensive scientific database for the history of sciences collecting and maintaining the Arab's and Muslim's heritage, translating and explaining discoveries then communicating them to all over the world and training experts in the history of sciences who will be successful leaders in the community.

Objectives:

  1. Prepare a bibliography concerning the Arabs and Muslims heritage in applied and pure sciences and maintaining, defining it locally, regionally and globally.
  2. Introduce studies, researches and investigating the manuscripts specialized in science.
  3. Prepare researchers and train them in the various fields of applied and pure sciences related to scientific Arabic and Islamic heritage.
  4. Communicate with the establishments and scholars who are interested in scientific Arab and Muslims heritage.
  5. Monitoring and reviewing previously and currently published achievements of Arab and
  6. Muslim scholars in the history of various scientific fields and concentrate the light on them .