Book Launch and Panel Discussion - Defining Islamic Statehood : Measuring and Indexing Contemporary Muslim States (IAIS Malaysia, 31 March 2016)

Abstract

On 31 March 2016, IAIS Malaysia hosted a book launch event for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder and Chairman of The Cordoba Initiative, who had published a new book entitled ‘ Defining Islamic Statehood: Measuring and Indexing Contemporary Muslim States ’. The book was launched by Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia and Chairman of IAIS Malaysia. In his speech, Tun Abdullah congratulated Imam Feisal for his success in bringing to fruition such an important project to provide realistic and practical guidelines on Islamic governance and statehood for the Ummah in the 21st century.