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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 2008:- The second of the series of workshops on "Ethical Guidelines on Islamic Family Law" will take place in Doha in October
- "New Directions in Islamic Thought" This publication is the culmination of a series of international workshops carried out through the last 4 years, and will be published and available by Augst 2008.
- "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
