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Obs! The book "New Directions in Islamic Thought - Exploring Reform and Muslim Tradition" is now published. It can be ordered through Amazon.com (here). How are Muslims to reconcile their beliefs with the imperatives and pressures of the modern world? How should they handle the tension between their roles as private citizens and their religious affiliations and identities? This groundbreaking volume shows in what ways prominent Muslim intellectuals have themselves attempted to bridge the gap by reformulating traditional Islamic notions in a way that is consistent with contemporary understandings of equality, justice and pluralism. For list of contents click here |
Project on New Directions in Islamic Thought and Practice
Project group: Kari Vogt (chair) University of Oslo IKOS, Lena Larsen - UiO Centre for Human Rights, Christian Moe - independent researcher, Oddbjørn Leirvik - UiO Faculty of Theology, Tore Lindholm - UiO Centre for Human RightsIn the entire Muslim world, including Muslim minorities in the West, many people experience tensions and discrepancies between their roles as citizens and their religious affiliation and identity. Urged to respond to contemporary challenges of toleration and solidarity they often miss the requisite theological and fiqh-based grounding and reference.
Many Muslim experts are already committed to respond to these challenges, but they are often isolated. Their possibilities for debate, publication and dissemination of ideas around these sensitive issues are also often limited.
The ambition of the Oslocoalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief is to facilitate such debate by creating a forum where Muslim reform thinkers may present and discuss ideas and develop strategies for further action. This programme has shown that the question of women's rights is a focal point of the internal islamic debate, and the project group will focus on this debate in its work.
In 2009:- The third and final workshop on "Ethical Guidelines on Islamic Family Law" will take place in Kuala Lumpa 2009. The workshop will be followed by intensive work to produce two publications: a collection of writings on Islamic Family law in a modern context, on the same lines as the publication above, and a document summarising the finds of the workshop series for the use of vountary and other organisations working with women's questions at a grass root level. Read more here
- The second of the series of workshops on "Ethical Guidelines on Islamic Family Law" was carried out in Cairo in January 2009
- "New Directions in Islamic Thought" This publication is the culmination of a series of international workshops carried out through the last 4 years, and was published in 2008, see above.
- "Ethical Guidelines on Islamic Family Law" workshop. The group of experts created at the Istanbul conference in January 2007 (see below) met again in November in Marrakesh to begin the work on creating ethical guidelines for Islamic Family Law.
- Collating and editing "New Directions in Islamic Thought" publication.
- International Workshop "The Changeable and the Unchangeable in Islamic Thought and Practice", Istanbul, Turkey, January 2007
- International Workshop on The Changeable and the Unchangeable in Islamic Thought and Practice, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2005
- International Workshop on Equality and Plurality, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, June 2004
