The first session of the Summer Institute for Scholars Program began its first lecture today. The scholars met at the IIIT library yesterday to introduce themselves and meet the other scholars and IIIT staff and directors.

Today's lecture was presented by Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University. This was one of three lectures he will be presenting. This lecture was titled " Quran as Revelation". During the second part of the session Dr. Aisha Musa, Florida International University, presented her talk on "Tafsir al Qur'an bil Qur'an".