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This conference will act as a catalyst for continuing dialogue and exchange amongst Muslim scholars of Islam, religious authorities, governmental officials, and community leaders in the Islamic world. The organizers hope that this will contribute to fostering a larger discourse through which Muslims derive new insight about the meaning of Islam for the contemporary world. The conference is designed to offer reflections on questions such as: “What is the Islamic synthesis prevailing in the Muslim world today?” “What are the most important issues and forces behind this contemporary Islamic synthesis?” With these questions in mind, the conference provides an opportunity to construct a genuine intra-Muslim dialogue on a number of themes that are of particularly critical importance for present day Muslims, such as social justice, democracy, and civil society in Islamic thought and practice.