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September 2010
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It is with great sorrow that we, at IIIT, received the news of the passing of a distinguished scholar of Islam, our beloved brother Dr. Fathi Osman, on Saturday September 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Osman was recognized as a pioneer contemporary Islamic thinker. He wrote on Shari’a in contemporary society, human rights, women in Islam, pluralism, the "other", the permanent and transitional in the sacred sources, Shura and democracy and on other contemporary issues of the time. His "Concepts of the Qur’an: A Topical Reading" was an important work that enabled English speakers to understand the Qur’an. "Contemporary Issues: An Islamic Perspective" and the "Other" are his latest major publications ... |
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 “Isma’il Faruqi is a good case of the modern intellectual who is a believer and provides a good example for thinking about what it means to be a ‘believing intellectual’ in the modern era,” said Georgetown University’s history professor John Voll who presented the Annual Isma’il Faruqi Lecture at IIIT on August 26 to an audience of over 80 scholars, activists and community leaders. Speaking on "The Challenge of the Believing Intellectual: Religion and Modernity," Professor Voll, who is also associated with the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, reviewed how ...
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