Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Thur 4 Aug: Re-imagining the Muslim-Hindu Encounter in Pre-Modern South Asia - Dr. Fuad Naeem


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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