e-cmes Prospective Students
Current Students
Faculty, Staff and Associates
Visiting Researchers
CMES Alumni
Reporting on Muslim Communities
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Sharia
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Category: 
Lecture
Contact Name: 
Gwen Speeth

Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. Internationally recognized as both a leading expert on religion and law and as a human rights activist, Dr. An-Na’im is a prominent authority on Islamic law and theology, and on diverse Islamic societies in Africa and Asia. Specifically, he focuses on the complementary relationship between religion, human rights and secularism.


Harvard Professor Baber Johansen will be a respondent.

 

Listen to the event here:

Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, Track 4, Track 5, Track 6, Track 7, Track 8, Track 9, Track 10, Track 11, Track 12, Track 13, Track 14, Track 15, Track 16, Track 17, Track 18, Track 19, Track 20, Track 21

 

 

Contact Email: 
gspeeth@fas.harvard.edu
Co-Sponsor: 
Interfaculty Initiative on Contemporary State and Society in the Islamic World.
Location: 
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138