By Becca Bonthius
Progressive Muslim thinker Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im argued against the notion of the Islamic state during his lecture "Imagining and Realizing Progressive Islam: A Framework and Call to Action," Tuesday night in Bentley Hall.
"If you leave the possibility of an Islamic state alive, then someone is always going to try to make it happen. And when they do, you've got disasters, like what happened to Sudan," An-Na'im, who is from Sudan, said.
An-Na'im is a Professor of Law at Emory University and is the author of "Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a." His lecture was the first of the Mohmoud Mohamed Taha Progressive Islam Lecture Series, put on by the Centers for African Studies and Southeast Asian Studies and supported by a two-year Social Science Research Council grant. Read more ...
Progressive Muslim thinker Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im argued against the notion of the Islamic state during his lecture "Imagining and Realizing Progressive Islam: A Framework and Call to Action," Tuesday night in Bentley Hall.
"If you leave the possibility of an Islamic state alive, then someone is always going to try to make it happen. And when they do, you've got disasters, like what happened to Sudan," An-Na'im, who is from Sudan, said.
An-Na'im is a Professor of Law at Emory University and is the author of "Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a." His lecture was the first of the Mohmoud Mohamed Taha Progressive Islam Lecture Series, put on by the Centers for African Studies and Southeast Asian Studies and supported by a two-year Social Science Research Council grant. Read more ...
Source: The Athens Messenger
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