Graduating Class of 2005 Preparing for their Future
Over 120 guests, including faculty, staff and students of the Institute as well as its key supporters, commemorated the graduation of the Class of 2005 at a ceremony held at London鈥檚 Royal Geographic Society on November 27th, 2004. The students, who commenced the Institute鈥檚 Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities in September 2002, are now pursuing Masters Degrees at various UK universities.
Dr Alnoor Dhanani, Head of Graduate Studies, welcomed the graduates and guests to the celebration in their honor. He reflected on the achievements of the students in the past two years in the Institute鈥檚 Graduate Program, and remarked that 鈥渢he grads will take with them the spirit of inquiry, scholarship and social engagement to all their future endeavors.鈥� Commenting on the importance of rites of passage, Dr Dhanani further observed that this graduation 鈥渞eflects the transformation of students as learners, to graduates who utilize and even produce knowledge.鈥�
In his commencement address, Dr Aziz Esmail, Governor of the IIS, shared his hope that the 鈥渟tudents who graduated will find moments in their life where they are able to bring together the moments in their personal development with the needs of the greater society around them.鈥� Dr Esmail pointed out that the graduate program is 鈥渁 program in the best tradition of Islam and [more specifically] Ismailism 鈥t is a program to which the issues that lie at the heart of the great religions of the world [including] Islam are not just peripheral but central.鈥�
Dr Farhad Daftary, Associate Director and Head of the Department of Academic 榴莲视频官方 and Publications at the Institute, awarded the certificates to the 18 new graduates.
Jamil Kassam, from Canada, gave the valedictory address in which he shared his impressions of the graduates鈥� time and experience at the Institute. He applauded the Institute for creating 鈥渢he environment in which we are able to harness the differences in people and听work towards coming up with听creative solutions to the challenges we face today鈥� and for providing the graduates with 鈥渢ools to assist the Muslim world.鈥�
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