Programme

10:15-10:45 - Registration with coffee and tea (Hilda Besse Basement)

10:45-11:00 - Introduction and Welcome Note

11:00-13:00

Session 1 - What is the role of Muslim intellectuals?: Contemporary Challenges (Nissan Lecture Theatre)

Tariq Ramadan (University of Oxford)

Muslim Intellectuals: Civic, Political and Intellectual Challenges

Khaled Hroub (University of Cambridge)

Contemporary Arab intellectuals (Islamists, pan-Arab nationalists, leftists and liberals): divergent and convergent discourses.

Ziba Mir-Hosseini (SOAS)

The contributions of feminist scholarship to Islamic legal thought

Sara Silvestri (City University London)

Grassroot acvists, intellectuals, and lobbyists: who speaks for Islam in the EU and does it matter?

13:00-14:30 - Lunch (Hilda Besse Hall)

14:30-16:30

Session 2 - Who is a Muslim Intellectual? Historical and Theoretical considerations (Nissan Lecture Theatre)

Jan-Peter Hartung (SOAS)

What makes a Muslim intellectual? On the pro's and con's of a category?

Hilary Kalmbach (University of Oxford)

Producing Scholars, Professionals, or New Religious Intellectuals? Reform of Religious Education in Egypt, 1872-1925

Carool Kersten (King’s College London)

Free-floating Gamekeepers or Organic Gardeners? Muslim Intellectuals in Indonesia

Mohammad Talib (University of Oxford)

Muslim Intellectuals in Public domain: Some Conceptual Clarifications

16:30-17:00 - Tea/Coffee Break (Hilda Besse Basement)

17:00-18:00

Roundtable (Fellow's Dining Room)

18:00-19:00 - Drinks Reception; Senior Common Room (Hilda Besse Building)