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Jun 17
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Mar 17
Jasser Auda: Knowledge through travelling and reading habits
Interview with brother Muhammad Rofiq for the Majelis Tarjih dan Tajdid Muhammadiyah magazine:
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Mar 17
JASSER AUDA ON INDONESIAN ISLAM AND MUHAMMADIYAH
The Muhammadiyah’s Council of Tarjih received a special guest from Canada, Jasser Auda. Mr. Auda is an Egyptian-born Islamic law expert, and also the founder of Maqasid Institute, whose headquarter is in London.
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Mar 17
The “Civil” and the “Islamic”: Towards a Common Ethical Ground
the quick answer is: There is no conflict between the concept of “civil” and the concept of “religious” if we imagine the spaces of religious and civil in circles as it appears in the following diagram.
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Feb 17
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Feb 17
Public Lecture On The Misconception Of the Civil State
Date: 6 February 2017 Venue: Syura Room, Dar al-Hikmah College, Kajang. Malaysia
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Jan 17
Ibn `Atta’: Perfect Your Beginning – Words of Wisdom
In his well-known book, Al-Hikam (Words of Wisdom), sheikh Ahmad Ibn `Ataa’illah As-Sakandari says: “A sign of success in the end is to refer to Allah in the beginning. If there is no sunrise in the beginning, there is no sunrise in the end.” A servant journeying to Allah, who is…
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Jan 17
Scholars Seminar for a New Renaissance
An annual event in Kuala Lumpur: Nadwah Ulamak Nahdhah Jadidah (Scholars Seminar for a New Renaissance). February 5, 2017: I will launch there, insha Allah, a Malaysian translation of my latest book, Civil State: Towards Overcoming Tyrrany and Achieving the Objectives of the Shariah. I will speak about nation building as…
Meeting with a group of students at The Fairfax Institute Winter School at the IIIT
Washington, DC: I had an interesting 6 hour session on: An Introduction to Maqasid al-Shariah, with a group of excellent undergraduate students from various American universities at The Fairfax Institute Winter School at the IIIT (International Institute Of Islamic Thought). Despite the sad developments that are happening in the US…
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Jan 17
Understanding Objectives of Shariah and its Role in Reforming Islamic Jurisprudence
My main point from this lecture at MAS16 MAS-ICNA Convention was to emphasise a much needed multi-disciplinary approach in re-reading the Quran to develop Islamic thought in current times. But who is the “scholar” who is going to read the Quran to develop contemporary thought? We have to end the…
