Al Qalam Institute for Islamic Identities and Dialogue in Southeast Asia, Ateneo de Davao University, Jacinto Street, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. Al Qalam - the pen An institute that aims to generate knowledge of Islam and Muslims in Mindanao.

1. Al Qalam
Institute
for Islamic Identities and Dialogue in Southeast Asia

2. History

3. About Us

4. Context

5. Objectives
a) Create a platform for grassroots intra-faith (between and
among Muslims and fellow Muslims) and inter-faith (between
and among Muslims, non-Muslims, and people’s of other faiths)
dialogue within Ateneo and its community;
b) Provide an avenue for articulation of present issues and
concerns of Muslim communities by engaging various Muslim
interest and sectoral groups into caucus and consensus building
(i.e. socio-political religious exchange);
c) Engage government structures, mechanisms and laws towards
inter-civilizational dialogue and peace-building (or to the effect:
creating a more peaceful and tolerant society);
d) Facilitate Islamic knowledge production, preservation and
promotion through research studies and scholastic;
e) Create/facilitate academic and cultural exchanges and
linkages with international groups on intercultural and
interreligious (interfaith) concerns.

6. Programs

7. AdDU Muslim students organization
before Al Qalam
• AMYO
• Ateneo Muslim Youth Organization early 2000
• Pro – political Islam or Islam as an ideology
• Ateneo Moro Youth Organization 2008 – 2012
• Inspired by LFS members
• AdDU Muslim population less than 300

8. Al Qalam’s Interventions with the
AdDU Muslim Students
 Duyog Ramadhan
 Peace Camps

9. From AMYO to SALAM
 SALAM: The Ateneo Muslim Society

10. SALAM Activities
Student Outreach Iftar for a Cause
Student Forum

11. Highlights of Al Qalam
Activities and Programs

12. Intrafaith
Dialogue
Create a platform for
grassroots intra-faith
(between and among
Muslims and fellow
Muslims) and inter-faith
(between and among
Muslims, non-Muslims,
and people’s of other
faiths) dialogue within
Ateneo and its
community;
Intrafaith
Peace Camp
Held at Parang,
Maguindanao. Attended
by youths coming from
different ethnicity: Iranun,
Maranao and
Maguindanawon.

13. Public
discussions/
Public
deliberations
on social and
theological
issues
Provide an avenue for
articulation of present
issues and concerns of
Muslim communities by
engaging various
Muslim interest and
sectoral groups into
caucus and consensus
building (i.e. socio-
political religious
exchange); Pakighinabi:
Conversations
Series

14. Inter-
civilizational
dialogue and
peace-building
Engage government
structures,
mechanisms and laws
towards inter-
civilizational dialogue
and peace-building (or
to the effect: creating
a more peaceful and
tolerant society);
Ligawasan Marsh
Protected Area Plan
Aims for the proposed
establishment of
Ligawasan Marsh as
protected area under
NIPAS Act of 1992.

15. Islamic
knowledge
production,
preservation
and Research
Facilitate Islamic
knowledge
production,
preservation and
promotion through
research studies and
scholastic
Community Iftar at
Businas Mosque
AdDU Opening of the
Interfaith Harmony Week
AB Islamic
Studies Program

16. Islamic
knowledge
production,
preservation
and Research
Facilitate Islamic
knowledge
production,
preservation and
promotion through
research studies and
scholastic
Publication of
IQRA Journal
A multidisciplinary journal
of Al Qalam which
designed to complement
the activities of the
institute by disseminating
its advocacies for peace
in Mindanao, interfaith
dialogue and
understanding Muslim
identities

17. Islamic Finance
Project
In partnership with Peace and
Equity Foundation, Asatidz
Council of Davao and the
Islamic Studies Program of
AdDU, this project envisions
to establish a functioning and
stable Islamic Finance
Framework to promote and
accelerate the socio-
economic development of the
Muslim Filipinos.
Islamic Finance
Educational Trip in
Indonesia, 2013-2015

18. Intercultural
and
interreligious
(interfaith)
Dialogue
Create/facilitate
academic and cultural
exchanges and
linkages with
international groups
on intercultural and
interreligious
(interfaith) concerns.
SGIDU
Program
Strengthening Grassroots
Interfaith Dialogue and
Understanding.
Duly funded by DFAT-Australian
Aid. With concentration in
BASULTA areas.

19. Questions and Requests

20. Thank you!
Questions?