Date and time:2019.8.29（Thu）15：00－18：00

Venue：Main Conference Room (3rd Floor), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

Lecturer: Dr. Mohammed Moussa, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Dr. Ayaka Kuroda, Ph.D, Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , Ritsumeikan University

Title: Rethinking Contemporary Islam

Abstract:
Contemporary Islam’s political relevance has been hotly debated in recent years.At the plane of political thought, diverse contending narratives have emerged on　the role of the state. Unanimity does not exist among Muslim thinkers, scholars and intellectuals on the basic premises and key concepts that would endow legitimacy onto a political order. “What is the State of Islamic Political Thought?”and “Moderate Islam Revisited: Voices for Modern Islamic Governance and Civil Society after the Arab Spring” will be discussed in the workshop.

Language: English

Admission free/ No registration required

Organizers: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists: Intellectuals in the Modern Muslim Societies and Logics and Practices of “Exclusion” (Project Leader, Emi Goto, the University of Tokyo)

Co-organizers: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA) , Network for Education and Research on Asia (ASNET)