The Centre for Islamic Development Management Studies (ISDEV), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) through the collaboration with the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) was recently given the golden opportunity to host Professor Ataul Huq Pramanik from 15 April, 2019 until 19 April, 2019. Professor Huq currently serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Economics, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

 

 

ISDEV ensured that the week long stay of Prof. Ataul Huq at ISDEV was lined up with academic and intellectual programme that not only benefitted ISDEV members but the USM community as well. He addressed ISDEV fraternity every single day that he was at ISDEV. 

 

 

On Tuesday, for the weekly ISDEV Tuesday Study Session, ISDEV provided a Special Sharing Session by Prof Ataul Huq. A very up close and personal session it proved to be as Prof. Ataul Huq shared about his past scholarly experience and intellectual journey.

 

 

The next was a closed lecture for ISDEV students in which Prof Ataul Huq talked about the Distribution of Wealth in Islamic Economics. His talk touched upon the need to understand the concept of distribution and the concept of how wealth is created in Islam before one can understand the dynamism of distribution of wealth in Islamic economics.

 

 

Prof Atauk Huq's fourth day at ISDEV was reserved as an exclusive session with ISDEV lecturers. The closed door meet at the Meeting Room of ISDEV started at three that afternoon. In this session Prof Ataul Huq spoke passionately about his past and the need for competition based on the demography profile of Bangladesh, the country which he hails from.

 

The climax of his stay at ISDEV was the Public Lecture on Revisiting Islamization of Economics held on his last day. ISDEV Resource Room was filled up well before 9:30am that day.The Public lecture was overwhelmingly well attended, with students and staff from outside ISDEV taking the opportunity to hear from the guru on development economics.