World class scholars, researchers, labs, lecture halls, and dormitories (the latter to attract the children of the most affluent) are not cheap, to put it mildly.
The Islamic Fiqh Academy of Jedda is one of the most influential educational institutions in the Muslim world for shariah scholars.
The printed book was a much more powerful learning innovation, because it allowed students to get a good higher education at a university lacking rare manuscripts or world-class scholars.
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Initiated by the Turkish Government, the Alliance of Civilizations Istanbul Series invites world-renowned scholars, intellectuals, artists, statesmen and leaders to share their views on cultural diversity and ways to reconcile differences in an increasingly complex world.
During their time on campus, the fellows study with some of the world's leading scholars and experts in disciplines ranging from business to law to public policy to the natural sciences.
Yet another new paper, by Dale Jorgenson of Harvard University, one of the world's leading scholars in this field, and Kevin Stiroh of the New York Fed, has also weighed into the debate.
This has been stated before and after September 11 by leading Muslim scholars throughout the world.
We are less able to attract or keep the world's most gifted scholars than we once were.
To be sure, Usmani is one of the most prolific Shariah scholars in the world of finance.
The arrival in Britain this week of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the world's top Islamic scholars, drew furious denunciations from some members of Parliament and the tabloid press.
Over hundreds of years it has drawn millions of Muslim students and scholars from across the world.
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He was a man who, although much-visited by scholars from around the world, and just as often invited to visit them, still had time to spend many private hours with a young graduate student.
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We, who are educators and leaders in schools of entertainment and performing arts education around the world, are sitting in a central position to harness our resources to nurture and develop the kinds of artists and scholars who can make a difference in the world through the power of their stories.
"Such interest is all the more significant because it involves not only the academic world, but also young people and scholars from very diverse nations and traditions, " he said.
Scholars from around the Islamic world traveled to the oasis city to study at the prestigious University of Sankore, which had some 25, 000 students and 180 Koranic schools in its heyday.
Since its inception, under the peripatetic leadership of its Executive Director Dr. Charles Small, YIISA organized seminars and conferences that brought leading scholars from all over the world to Yale to discuss anti-Semitism in an academic setting.
Through the Muslim World League, they began endowing chairs for scholars and funding departments.
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The conference, which was held over three days, attracted more than a hundred top tier scholars and policymakers from around the world.
The International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO History Project, composed of scholars from all regions in the world and established by the Director-General in 2006, is preparing three international conferences on UNESCO s history to take place in 2009 and 2010.
Ibn Sina, author of Canon of Medicine, a medical textbook used all the way up to the 17th century, and Ibn Rushd, another Muslim polymath, were two of many polymath scholars found frequently throughout the Muslim world during this time period.
These are the top-tier Islamic scholars whose stamp of approval is required before the world's banks can market a new financial product as being consistent with Islamic law.
Among the handful of documents here from the period of World War II, a section of the archives still closed to scholars, is a 1942 letter from Jewish inmates of an Italian concentration camp, thanking Pope Pius XII for his support and gifts of clothing.
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Where we nurture and develop the kinds of artists and scholars with the skills, artistry, confidence and real-world experiences so they are not only prepared for long-term success, but will use their stories and their successes to make a difference.
There was a great deal of controversy in the Islamic world on this issue as recently as the 1980s, with some prominent Islamic scholars claiming that there was in fact no complete prohibition of interest, only a prohibition of usury, or excessive, unfair interest.
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Lintott (played by Frances de la Tour with heartbreaking irony and ferocity) and through the eight young history scholars themselves -- every one of them interesting, each one a new world a-borning.
Scholars have noted that American faithful were more pope-identified than coreligionists around the world, as if overcompensating to hold the two sides together.
But the novel, initially a flop, was not much read or even appreciated until after World War I, long after Ryder had finished the painting, so it is almost certain, scholars agree, that the biblical tale was the artist's sole starting point.
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It is telling that Pearson resists the impulse of true scholars and intellectuals to probe the cultural contexts and social meanings of art forms that demand the world's attention in the way hip hop has over the past quarter century.
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