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in 1983 to bring together scholars engaged in the study of Islamic Societies and states around the world from religious, cultural, economic and political perspectives.
In a small symposium with a total of seven panels and some 20 speakers (except the absentees), panel areas covered ranged from Turkey and the West to Muslims in Tibet and China, while the subjects were as diverse as foreign policy, media studies and pluralism.
Respectively, these papers were "The Role of Turkey in European Security" and "Turkish-American Relations".
Similarly, the earlier Turkish elite wanted to enter EU for the reasons of changing identity, economic or civilizational, whereas the society at that time was still traditional and felt a deeper bond with the Muslim world than secular Europe.
The data on India-Iran relations was not new in the presentation, and the analysis was skewed because in any paper on foreign policy analysis, one expects all the major actors in the region and look at their decision making process as a result of domestic tension of those societies and their interaction at the systemic level.
Dr. Ahmed who has been recently appointed as the lbn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University's School of International Service has written numerous works on the predicament of Islam in the Modem world.
Dr. Ahmed said: "I will argue that certain processes have been set in motion on a global scale, which have created conditions for the clear emergence of the signs, which indicate the end of time.