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SUMMARY:"The Significance of Islamic Intellectual History for Contemporar
 y Muslims" - at Champaign\, IL
CREATED:20090223T130000Z
DESCRIPTION:Education in the Muslim world has radically changed as a resu
 lt of modernization programs adopted by Muslim political and cultural el
 ites beginning in the 19th century. One of the consequences of these ref
 orm programs has been a pronounced decline -- if not outright collapse -
 - of interest in the theoretical Islamic sciences such as theology (kala
 m) and ethics (usul al-fiqh). As a result\, educated Muslims\, unless th
 ey attended seminaries (and attained advanced training there)\, can only
  engage religious texts in a naive\, quasi-literalist fashion. Muslim re
 formers\, therefore\, generally engage in a strategy of 're-reading' rev
 elation in order to advance their goals rather than\, for example\, argu
 ing that the reforms are good and desirable in themselves. Dr. Fadel bel
 ieves that this strategy at best leads to inconclusive results and at wo
 rst undermines the Islamic credibility of reform projects. An alternativ
 e reform strategy is possible if modern Muslims take the problems posed 
 in traditional Islamic theological and ethical discussions and apply the
 m to contemporary problems.
LAST-MODIFIED:20090327T120000Z
LOCATION:Knight Auditorium\, Spurlock Museum: 600 S. Gregory St.\, Urbana
 
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
CONTACT:Elizabeth Rogers 217.333.2258
ORGANIZER:erogers2@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2324?key=2000010120000101112421
UID:112421@illinois.edu
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