University President Participates in Quranic Conference

Professor Walid bin Idris Al-Manisi, President of the Islamic University of Minnesota, announced his participation in the conference titled "Quranic Guidance in Building the Human" organized by the Makkah Global Center for Quranic Guidance Foundation, taking place from September 1 to 4 in Makkah.

In a post on his personal Facebook page, Al-Menisi expressed his honor in presiding over one of the conference sessions, which is held to celebrate the completion of academic theses in the Quranic Guidance Project. This project initially began with a chair at Umm Al-Qura University for Quranic Guidance and has since evolved into the Makkah Global Center for Quranic Guidance Foundation.

Al-Menisi explained that the Quranic Guidance Project aims to prepare 60 doctoral theses, each focusing on extracting Quranic guidance from a specific section of the Quran according to a carefully developed unified methodology. Researchers have been trained on this methodology through multiple courses, tested, and assigned to write smaller research papers to ensure their mastery of the required writing methodology. As a result, researchers extracted over 300,000 pieces of guidance from the Quran, including lessons and insights drawn from the verses, along with doctrinal, jurisprudential, linguistic, social, educational, and behavioral benefits.

The university president also noted that the organizers of the guidance chair have selected 30 universities from around the world to be partners in this project. He clarified that each university has registered a doctoral thesis within the guidance project in collaboration with the Quranic Guidance chair at Umm Al-Qura University, expressing his pride in being one of the supervisors for one of the theses in this blessed project.