Seminars, Conferences, Addresses: The Fifth International Symposium Of The History Of Arab Science خبر و گزارش

584 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 9:4 in Spain or Muslim countries. It was the ref ore most fitting that the symposium was held in the buildings adjoining those palaces. However, this event was markedly less well attended than the earlier symposia which had been organized by the same Syrian Institute, especially the first two held during 1976 and 1979. One can only hope that the organization of symposia does not become a routine affair in the sense that no extra effort is spent to attract distinguished scholars in the respective fields of Arabic-Islamic science, and instead become government affairs with their inevitable anti-intellectual stance. " It was a joint undertaking of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought 584