Jul 2, 2012

A lecture at SFU by Tariq Ramadan The Scope and Limits of Reforming Islam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAERjHoiaE




A lecture by Tariq Ramadan The scope and limits of reforming Islam February 230309

http://www.ccsmsc.sfu.ca/annual_lecture_series/spring_2011_lecture_series
http://www.tariqramadan.com/spip.php?lang=fr

Dr. Tariq Ramadan (PhD, Geneva) is one of the foremost international voices for the understanding of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. Educated at the University of Geneva and al-Azhar University, Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at St. Antony's College at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Qatar University. Professor Ramadan has written over twenty books, including The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (Penguin, 2010), What I Believe (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation (Oxford University Press, 2008). His lecture, "Pluralism and the Quest for Meaning," on February 3, was based on his new book The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (Penguin, 2010).

ABSTRACT
Ramadan's lecture will draw from his most recent book, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (Penguin, 2010). Here Ramadan journeys to the deep ocean of religious, secular, and indigenous spiritual traditions to explore the most pressing issues affecting contemporary Islam and the West. He interrogates concepts that frame our current debates on faith and reason, emotions and spirituality, tradition and modernity, universality and civilization.

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