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Critical Muslims: October 2013

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Tuesday, 29 October 2013. French-Tunisian intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb: Islamists are not ready for Democracy. In an interview with the Qantara website, the Paris-based Tunisian writer and commentator Abdelwahab Meddeb. Expresses his doubts regarding the future trajectories of his home country and Egypt under the governance of Islamic parties. Ever the critical observer he minces no words. When attempts are made today to put God back at the centre o...

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Critical Muslims: July 2014

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Monday, 7 July 2014. Indonesia's Muslims between religious pluralism and intolerance. This article was written for the Middle-East Asia Projec. Of the Middle East Instite ( MEI. Outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. To read the full article click on the image below. Click on the image to read the full article. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Introducing critical Muslim thinkers. Is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and the Muslim Wor...

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Critical Muslims: October 2014

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Friday, 17 October 2014. Ethnicity and Religion: Navid Kermani's visit to Iraq. The German-Iranian academic, writer and intellectual Navid Kermani. Spent a week traveling in war-torn Iraq. Here are some excerpts from his interview with the Muslim world news website Qantara. About his findings. It paints a depressing picture of what once was a cosmopolitan country. And who are willing to associate with organisations such as ISIS for these purposes.

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Critical Muslims: September 2013

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Thursday, 19 September 2013. A Crisis of Religious authority in the Muslim World. An important article by Hatem Bazian. On Religious authority in the Muslim World. Signalling the problems faced by traditional authority figures:. C urrent events in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia - and before that in Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey - point to a great struggle between. Ties in with the upcoming volume of essays, which Susanne Olsson. Although there is a...

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Critical Muslims: November 2014

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Friday, 21 November 2014. Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014): The disloyal loyalty of a critical Muslim. The following excerpts are taken from an obituary that appeared on the Qantara. He set himself the long-term task of carving out an image of Islam that does not accentuate dogma and norm, but divergence, and of issuing insistent reminders of the critical, bold and even blasphemous thought that has also existed within Islam and among Muslim thinkers.

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Critical Muslims: November 2013

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Saturday, 2 November 2013. There is no Golden Age of Islam and al-Ghazali Did Not Kill Rationalism in the Muslim World. Asad Q. Ahmed. Piecing together the scholarly heritage of the pre-modern Muslim world, the intellectual historian Asad Q. Ahmed. Has come to the conclusion that there is no single Golden Age of Islamic learning. In an article on Open Democracy,. He also corrects a number of other misconceptions about the Muslim past. If this is true,...

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Critical Muslims: A Moroccan Philosopher in Indonesia: The Influence of Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri on Indonesian Islamic Thinking

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. A Moroccan Philosopher in Indonesia: The Influence of Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri on Indonesian Islamic Thinking. On 19 February 2015, I gave an invited public lecture. About the influence of the Moroccan philosopher Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri. Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri a philosopher and his thought. Al-Jabiri’s fame rests on his so-called Critique of Arab Reason. Al-Jabiri was very much influenced by the Moroccan-born geographer a...

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Critical Muslims: March 2014

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Sunday, 16 March 2014. Islam and the Other: Abdelwahab Meddeb, Levinas and Ibn Paquda. The French-Tunisian scholar and intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb. Recently posted the text of a broadcast entitled Le Besoin de l'Autre. Those competent in French can read the full text below (with some added images and links):. Le Besoin de l'Autre. Dans son livre Le Festin. La participation à la course pour l’œuvre de bien s’avère le critère de l’a...Nous lisons cec...

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Critical Muslims: February 2015

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. A Moroccan Philosopher in Indonesia: The Influence of Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri on Indonesian Islamic Thinking. On 19 February 2015, I gave an invited public lecture. About the influence of the Moroccan philosopher Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri. Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri a philosopher and his thought. Al-Jabiri’s fame rests on his so-called Critique of Arab Reason. Al-Jabiri was very much influenced by the Moroccan-born geographer a...

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Critical Muslims: August 2013

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Introducing alternative voices from the Muslim world. Friday, 23 August 2013. Positive Assertiveness: British Muslims write back. A number of British Muslim activists as well as academics from Muslim backgrounds have developed a new initiative through the Runnymede Trust. To resist growing Islamophobia. Friday, 16 August 2013. From Fragmentation to Polarization: is there a future for political Islam? My contribution to a debate on Al-Jazeera. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Although there is at present a con...