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About the Conference
On the 9 -10 October 2009, the AKU-ISMC will hold a conference entitled Construction of Belief: Comparative Perspectives. The conference, for invited academics, will honour the work and ideas of Professor Mohamed Arkoun, one of the most influential scholars of Muslim philosophy and history.
Professor Arkoun has devoted his long intellectual career in an endeavour to re-think the Islamic past and present in the light of modern approaches of critical reflection and analysis. This endeavour has just begun to be noted and appreciated in the English-speaking world, provoking admiration as well as controversy.
The conference will involve eminent scholars from the fields of Philosophy, History and Religious Studies engaging with themes that extend or examine the work of Professor Arkoun. Speakers include:
Mohammed Arkoun |
Emeritus Professor, La Sorbonne |
Ridwan Assayyid |
Professor, Lebanese University |
Akeel Bilgrami |
Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Institute, Columbia University |
Adel Daher |
Professor, Pace University, New York |
Souleymane Bachir Diagne |
Professor, Columbia University |
Aziz Esmail |
Governor, Institute of Ismaili Studies |
Abdou Filali-Ansary |
Director & Professor, AKU-ISMC, UK |
Ursula Gunther |
Research Fellow, University of Hamburg |
R. Stephen Humphreys |
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Mark Sedgwick |
Associate Professor, Aarhus University |
Stefan Wild |
Professor, University of Bonn |
Joseph van Ess |
Emeritus Professor, University of Tübingen |
Malika Zeghal |
Associate Professor, University of Chicago Divinity School |
For more information about the conference please contact Rebecca.williamson@aku.edu.
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