Peace forum mourns death of Wahidudin Khan

ABU DHABI: The Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Communities, represented by Shaikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, President of the Forum, and its commitees, mourned the Indian Islamic scholar, Shaykh Wahidudin Khan, who dedicated his life to serving Islam and promoting peace and love.

In 2015, the forum was honoured to award Khan the “Imam Al Hassan Ibn Ali Peace Award.” During the event, Shaikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah said that honouring Khan commemorates his approach to promoting Islam as a religion of peace for over 70 years.

Recently, the University of Sharjah (UOS) launched the Fourth International Conference on Arabs’ and Muslims’ History of Sciences, organised by the College of Science under the umbrella of the Sharjah International Foundation for the History of Arab and Muslim Sciences (SIFHAMS) at the University of Sharjah, under the theme: “Scientific Legacy and its Contemporary Impacts.”

The conference was held in cooperation with the University of Cologne in Germany and King Abdulaziz University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Scholars, researchers and directors of universities, research centres, libraries and international museums participated in the conference, and the number of registered participants reached more than 900 from more than 40 Arab and Islamic countries, and from countries throughout the world. Conference activities will last for three days using the virtual communication plaform Zoom.

The Conference includes 21 scientific sessions, during which more than 130 scientific and research papers will be presented by distinguished scholars, specialists and graduate students who work in various fields of applied sciences, engineering, medical, health, humanities and social sciences. The scientific papers are also charachterised by diversity, which revolves around embodying the achievements and innovations of early Muslim scholars in all applied sciences, including engineering, medical, health, humanities and architecture.