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Qom to Host Int’l Conference on Mahdism Doctrine in Mid-Sha’ban

10:38 - March 02, 2013
News ID: 2504153
The 9th edition of the annual international conference on Mahdism Doctrine will be held on the occasion of birth anniversary of Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his glad advent) on June 23 and 24 in the holy city of Qom.
This is according to Mohammadali Mousawi Nasab, executive secretary of the program, who told IQNA that “Ground-setting Education, Strategies and Approaches” is the theme of this edition of the international event.
A call for papers has been published on the website of the program at www.mahdaviat-conference.com and interested scholars and intellectuals have been invited to send their papers on the theme of teh event.
The first category on ground-setting will include the following topics: “area of ground-setting responsibility (the responsibility principle, liability limits and their range)”, “forms of preparation (training, education, government, etc.)” and “Islamic societies and the ground-setting (the current state of education, family and society upbringing in Muslim societies and paving the distance with ground-setting)”.
Position of imam in the Islamic educational plan”, “principles and objectives of Islamic education with emphasis on the centrality of Imam (ground-setting training)”, “educational approaches and ground-setting”, “lifestyle and ground-setting training”, “cultural Institutions and ground-setting training” and “challenges, obstacles and problems of ground-setting training” will be discussed under the second category which is training and ground-setting.
The third category will be specified to “strategies and approaches of ground-setting education in cultural institutions (university and seminary)”, “strategies and approaches of ground-setting education in schools” and “strategies and approaches of ground-setting education and training in the media (TV, radio, cinema and cyberspace)”.
Those interested should submit an abstract of their article (maximum 500 words) written in English and Arabic to the Secretary of the seminar for consideration by the scientific committee of the Institute preferably via E-mail by 20 March 2013.
Researchers whose abstracts are accepted by the Bright Future Institute should submit their full papers written in one of the above-mentioned languages (maximum 6,000 words) to the Secretary of the conference for the final review via E-mail by 20 April 2013.
papers that have been published in other publications or released in other seminars previously held in Iran can not be sent to the conference. The accepted articles will be later published in a book.

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