Department of Comparative Literature

Before Religion: An Introduction to the Underlying Logic of Islamic Reformism

Speaker:

Abolfazl Ahangari, PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

Respondent:

Arash Davari, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Date: Friday, February 24, 2023

Time: 10:30 am Hong Kong Time

Venue: On Zoom

All are welcome. No registration required.

https://hku.zoom.us/j/95008282387?pwd=Nk1FWHhtbmJEYnZqeU9RcGRCSW0xZz09

Meeting ID: 950 0828 2387

Password: 343248

This seminar discusses the history of reformism in Islam and argues that the reform project is aimed at providing an answer to a secular need for historicizing the sacred, making it worldly, and reviving it in and for the present condition.

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