{"id":3361,"date":"2011-12-04T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:08","slug":"islam-reform-and-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2011\/12\/04\/islam-reform-and-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam: Reform and Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From our friends at Haverford: \u00a0A one-day <strong>symposium on &#8220;Islam: Reform and Revival.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will be an opportunity to share in the reflections of four distinguished participants in current debates about the nature of Islam (sponsored\u00a0 by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haverford.edu\/CPGC\/\">Center for Peace and Global Citizenship<\/a> and the Distinguished Visitor&#8217;s Committee). On <strong>Thursday, 8 December, in Stokes 106<\/strong>, Abdulkarim Soroush, MohsenKadivar, Ali Mirsepassi, and Mahoud Sadri will be on campus sharing their thoughts and inviting our reflections on contemporary reform in Islam.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Professor Soroush<\/strong> has been visiting with us at Haverford this semester;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Kadivar<\/strong> is a distinguished Iranian &#8220;cleric&#8221; and philosopher, who studied with Grand Ayatollah Montazeri in Qum and received his Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy and Theology\u00a0 from Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ali Mirsepassi<\/strong> is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Sociology at NYU, and Mahoud Sadri is Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman&#8217;s University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>symposium begins at 9:30 and ends at 4:30<\/strong> with a break for lunch in the CPCG Cafe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/t2C07K\">Download a poster here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact: Prof.\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mgould@haverford.edu\">Mark Gould<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/Islam_reform_F2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3363\" title=\"Islam_reform_F2011\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/Islam_reform_F2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our friends at Haverford: \u00a0A one-day symposium on &#8220;Islam: Reform and Revival.&#8221; This will be an opportunity to share in the reflections of four distinguished participants in current debates about the nature of Islam (sponsored\u00a0 by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Distinguished Visitor&#8217;s Committee). On Thursday, 8 December, in Stokes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2011\/12\/04\/islam-reform-and-revival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islam: Reform and Revival<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89,90,91,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/175424977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}