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The seminar coordinator, Aftab Ahmad Khan of Buffalo State College, spoke on “Establishing Some Principles and Guidelines for Islamization of History,” in which he focused on the need for Muslim self—reliance in the writing and interpretation of their own history as well as that of the rest of the world with the aim of exposing the world- unifying concepts and reflections of tawlgid.
This was followed by Professor Akbar Muhammad of SUNY at Binghamton, who presented a paper entitled “On Islamic History, Muslim History, and the Social Milieu.
Expanding the scope of interest to entire geographic areas, Omar Khalidi of MIT spoke on the historiography of Muslim India, analyzing three different schools of thought, and Musa Hakim of SUNY at Buffalo presented a paper on West African Islamic history from the viewpoint of ideas that have been generated on the subject.