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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
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

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.

 

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