The World Conference On Islamic Thought & Civilization (WCIT) started as a biennial conference addressing contemporary issues, and has been organized by Universiti Sultan Azlan Shah (USAS) since 2012, with participants coming from more than 15 countries. The Conference is organized under the patronage of the Perak State Government. The initial purpose of the event is to be the platform for the Muslim World to provide the proposals, for the solutions to global issues pertaining humankind.
WCIT 2012
September 11, 2012
The 1st World Conference on Islamic Thought and Civilization (WCIT) was successfully organized in September, 2012 with the theme Contemporary Challenges and Realities. For WCIT 2012, the organizer had accepted more than 700 abstracts, presented papers were almost 250 and participations were from 15 countries.
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August 20, 2014
For the 2nd WCIT, “The Rise and Fall of Civilization” was selected as the main theme simply because it holds a great deal of importance behind it. The term civilization has been define and understood in a number of ways in a situation when there is no widely accepted standard definition. Sometimes it is used synonymously with a term culture and frequently referred to society as a whole.
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October 18, 2016
‘Future World’ has been selected for WCIT2016 theme, simply because it holds a great deal of significance behind it. What do we see in the future of the world? What the future holds for us? What matters is the value of our actions and attitudes that can shift the world’s future. From poverty to social development, technological advancement to environmental sustainability, it all depends on our behavior and future implications.
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November 20, 2017
Global Peace has been selected as the main theme for WCIT2017, because it holds a great deal of significance. We may have fully realized now that our contemporary world has for long been lurking into a new dark age of social, political and religious intolerance, bigotry and extremism, spiritual ignorance and indifference, and economic inequality. We can therefore agree that global peace is an urgent vision of humanity.
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October 20, 2019
The Conference now intends to focus more on what it can offer in terms of real life experiences; takeaways that could be followed up with actual programs of action. It is with this practical approach that USAS plans to organize its 5th World Conference on Islamic Thought and Civilization (WCIT 2018) with the theme of ‘Securing the Future’.
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