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The 2006 Middle East Festival Lecture by Professor Tariq Ramadan
Talk Title: Islam and the West in a Quest for a Just and Peaceful World
Chair: Rev Prof Frank Whaling
Venue: The Queen’s Hall, 87-89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh.
Date/Time: Thursday 2 March 2006. Doors Open: 6.30pm.
Lecture and Questions and Discussion: 7.30pm-9.30pm.
Event Description: This event will consist of an hour long lecture
by Tariq Ramadan followed by an hour of questions and discussion.
Organized by the Middle East Festival.
Co-hosted by the Middle East Festival and the University of Edinburgh.
Background Information on Professor Tariq Ramadan
Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the 21st century, Tariq Ramadan occupies a unique place among leading Islamic thinkers.
Professor Tariq RAMADAN holds MA in Philosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt, he received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars.
Tariq Ramadan is currently Senior Research Fellow at Lokahi Foundation and visiting Professor at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Through his writings and lectures he has contributed substantially to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. He is active both at the academic and grassroots levels lecturing extensively throughout the world on social justice and dialogue between civilizations.
Prof Tariq Ramadan has written more than twenty books exploring the difficult issues of reinterpretation and reform within Islam itself and between the Islamic world and its neighbours around the globe. His books include Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003), Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity (The Islamic Foundation, 2000), To Be a European Muslim (The Islamic Foundation, 1998), and Jihad, Violence, War and Peace in Islam (in French only, Tawhid, 2002). He has also published a total of 700 contributions or articles in collective books, academic reviews, and magazines. Tariq Ramadan Website: http://www.tariqramadan.com/
Festival Co-Director, Neill Walker said: ‘Following the very successful 2005 Middle East Festival Lecture by Abuna Elias Chacour we are looking forward to welcoming Professor Tariq Ramadan to speak on a subject of great significance for our times.’
Cost: £7/£5 (concessions).
Contact: Booking Hotline on 0131 668 2019, or in person at the Queen’s Hall.
Queen’s Hall Website: http://www.thequeenshall.net/index.php
For further information contact:
Neill Walker, Co-Director of the Middle East Festival.
T: 0131 331 4469, E: neillw@hotmail.com
The Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace
February 8 - March 12, 2006, www.mesp.org.uk
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