Hast o Neest
Institute of
Traditional Studies & Arts invites everyone to the
Open Guest Lecture
Re-imagining the
Muslim-Hindu Encounter
in Pre-Modern South
Asia
Dr. Fuad Naeem
(Assistant Professor Religion, Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota, USA)
Thursday, 4 August
6:00 pm
The talk will be a
critique of the common notion of a perpetual opposition between Hindus and
Muslims in South Asia that came about due to British colonial historiography;
examining the many diverse facets of the Muslim-Hindu encounter.
Dr. Fuad Naeem's dissertation research
focused on the nineteenth century Muslim scholar and theologian Muhammad Qasim
Nanautvi, founder of the influential school of Deoband, his particpation in
religious debate and dialogue between Muslims, Christians, and Hindus in South
Asia and the transformations and reconfigurations of Islamic scholarly
traditions in the modern period. His interests include Islamic intellectual
traditions in South Asia, Muslim encounters with religious others, Islam and
modernity, the Qur'an and its exegesis, and Islamic philosophy, theology, and
esoteric traditions.
Venue: Hastoneest,
3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, Lahore.
Query:
hast.o.neest@gmail.com/0300 8493170.
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