IIUI five-day workshop started

ISLAMABAD: A five days workshop under the Auspicious of Faculty of Arabic of the
International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) with the collaboration of Higher Education Commission (HEC) started on Monday in the new campus of the university.

The topic of the workshop is "Teaching Translation and Interpretation, Theory, Practice and Challenges".

Prof. Dr. Sahibzada Sajid ur Rehman President IIUI presided over the inaugural session of workshop.

Speaking on the occasion Sahibzada Sajid ur Rehman highlighted the importance of translation in transformation of knowledge from one language to another and said that it is impossible to transform knowledge from one language to another without proper translation.

He said that due to these translations the scholars and Ulema of Sub-continent became familiar with the knowledge of Quran, Hadith, Fiqh etc. He said that there was a time that the western world was looking for knowledge fields towards the Muslim world for knowledge in difference disciplines but it is sorry to say that now days the Muslim scholars are going to the western universities to seek knowledge.

He said that it is the need of the hour to establish translation departments in each and every university to transform the Quranic as well as the knowledge about the modern disciplines in the native languages. He assured all possible cooperation to the Faculty of Arabic in this regards.

Earlier Dr. Inam Ul Haq Ghazi, Coordinator of the programme briefed the participants about the workshop and said that IIU is the first university of Pakistan which introduced the four years BS degree of translation and Interpretation.

He added that MS Programme of translation and interpretation would also be introduced next year, which will be converted in Ph. D programme later on. He tanked the HEC for cooperation and assistance for holding of the said workshop.Dr. Muhammad Bashir, the acting Dean of Faculty of Arabic also speaks on the occasion. Mr. Kashif Sohail Malik, Dr. Fadeela Daud, Dr. Jassim Taqui delivered lectures on different topics on the first day of the workshop. The workshop will remain continue till 14th September.
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