UPCOMING EVENTS
February 13, 2012
Equality, Freedom, & Religion
February 15, 2012
Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2011 Report Launch and 2012 Call for Applications
March 1, 2012
Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
April 11, 2012
Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe
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Religion and Ethics in World Politics
Globalization and the resurgence of religion in public life have brought faith and values into politics in new ways, in the United States and around the world. The program examines the political an...
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February 6, 2012
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February 2, 2012
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February 1, 2012
Call for Applications: Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2012
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Taking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths
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Between Culture and Religion: The Case of Female Genital Cutting
January 23, 2012
RFP Scholar Will Inboden on the Obama Administration and Religious Freedom
January 10, 2012
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
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November 17, 2009
Islam and Liberal Democracy: How Tradition Matters
The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Berkley Center sponsored a seminar with leading scholars to address how tradition matters in Islamic political thought today. The wide-ranging discussion considered how the Islamic tradition--including the Qur'an, the life and sayings of the Prophet, and diverse legal schools --relates to the idea of a liberal democratic state.
Moderator: Jane McAuliffe, President, Bryn Mawr College
Abdullahi An-Na'im, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University
Sherman Jackson,, Professor, University of Michigan
Ebrahim Moosa, Professor, Duke University
John Esposito, Professor, Georgetown University
Abdullahi An-Na'im, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University
Sherman Jackson,, Professor, University of Michigan
Ebrahim Moosa, Professor, Duke University
John Esposito, Professor, Georgetown University
Featuring
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, where he focuses on cross-cultural human rights issues, with an emphasis on Islam. He is also a faculty member of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Emory University Center for Ethics. During the fall 2009 semester he was a Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center. He is the author of Toward an Islamic Reformation(1990), African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006) and Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari‘a (2008). An-Na'im holds LL.B. degrees from the University of Khartoum and the University of Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. in Law from the University of Edinburgh.
Participants
John Esposito
John L. Esposito is a University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Professor of Islamic Studies, and the Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown Universit...
Sherman Jackson
Sherman A. Jackson is Arthur F. Thurnau professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, visiting professor of law, and professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has served as Executive Director for the Center of Arab...
Jane McAuliffe
Jane McAuliffe is the president of Bryn Mawr College, a position she has held since 2008. Previously, she had been Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University, where she was appointed Dean in 1999. McAuliffe has also tau...
Ebrahim Moosa
Ebrahim Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, where he specializes in classical and modern Islamic thought with a focus on Islamic law, history, ethics, and theology. Moosa previously taught at the University of Capet...
