Thursday 2 March 2006
The 2006 Middle East Festival Lecture
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Talk Title:
Islam and the West in a Quest for a Just and Peaceful World.
by Professor Tariq Ramadan
Chair: Rev Prof Frank Whaling.
Venue: The Queen’s Hall, 87-89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh.
Time: Doors Open: 6.30pm. Lecture and Questions: 7.30pm-9.30pm.
Organised by the Middle East Festival. Co-hosted by the Middle East Festival and the University of Edinburgh. Event Description: This event will consist of an hour long lecture by Tariq Ramadan followed by an hour of questions and discussion.
Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the 21st century, Tariq Ramadan occupies a unique place among leading Islamic thinkers. Professor Tariq Ramadan holds MA in Philosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt, he received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars. Tariq Ramadan is currently Senior Research Fellow at Lokahi Foundation and visiting Professor at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Through his writings and lectures he has contributed substantially to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. He is active both at the academic and grassroots levels lecturing extensively throughout the world on social justice and dialogue between civilizations. Prof Tariq Ramadan has written more than twenty books exploring the difficult issues of reinterpretation and reform within Islam itself and between the Islamic world and its neighbours around the globe. His books include Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003), Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity (The Islamic Foundation, 2000), To Be a European Muslim (The Islamic Foundation, 1998), and Jihad, Violence, War and Peace in Islam (in French only, Tawhid, 2002). He has also published a total of 700 contributions or articles in collective books, academic reviews, and magazines.
Cost: £7/£5 (concessions).
Contact: Booking Hotline on 0131 668 2019, or in person at the Queen’s Hall. Queen’s Hall Website: http://www.thequeenshall.net/index.php
