| | "The Significance of Islamic Intellectual History for Contemporary Muslims" - at Champaign, IL | |
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Speaker
| | Dr. Mohammed Fadel, University of Toronto |
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| | Date | | Apr 2, 2009 |
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| | Time | | 7:30 pm
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| | Location | | Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum: 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana |
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| | Cost | | free, open to the public |
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| | Sponsor | | Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Global Studies, Department of Religion, Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center, Muslim Student Association, and Illinois Network on Islam and Muslim Societies (I-NIMS) |
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| | Contact | | Elizabeth Rogers |
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| | E-Mail | | erogers2@illinois.edu |
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| | Phone | | 217.333.2258 |
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| | Event type | | Public Lecture |
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| | Views | | 96 |
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| Education in the Muslim world has radically changed as a result of modernization programs adopted by Muslim political and cultural elites beginning in the 19th century. One of the consequences of these reform programs has been a pronounced decline -- if not outright collapse -- of interest in the theoretical Islamic sciences such as theology (kalam) and ethics (usul al-fiqh). As a result, educated Muslims, unless they attended seminaries (and attained advanced training there), can only engage religious texts in a naive, quasi-literalist fashion. Muslim reformers, therefore, generally engage in a strategy of 're-reading' revelation in order to advance their goals rather than, for example, arguing that the reforms are good and desirable in themselves. Dr. Fadel believes that this strategy at best leads to inconclusive results and at worst undermines the Islamic credibility of reform projects. An alternative reform strategy is possible if modern Muslims take the problems posed in traditional Islamic theological and ethical discussions and apply them to contemporary problems. |
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