Critical Muslim Studies:
Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and
Islamic Revival
Granada, Spain-June 4-16, 2012
SECOND ROUND APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 25th, 2012
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The international Summer School, Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival, is an intensive seminar composed of several courses (all of them held in English language) that aims at opening the space for the analysis and investigation of Islam not only as a spiritual tradition, but also as an epistemic decolonial perspective that offers contributions and responses to the problems that humanity faces today. This becomes even more relevant with the rise of the Arab revolutions, the processes towards the formation of an Islamic Theology of Liberation and the ongoing inter-religious dialogues across the world. The Summer School is held at a historic and symbolic site of Islamic Civilization and one of the major centers of Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), the city of Granada in Spain. This course is offered through the Center of Study for Intercultural Dialogues, in Spain, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. The seminar will be held in the Carmen de la Victoria at the University of Granada.
Our Affiliated Faculty include internationally recognized Islamic Studies and Ethnic Studies scholars:Tariq Ramadan - Asma Lamrabet - Hamid Algar - Hatem Bazian
Samia Bano - Marc H. Ellis - Nadia Fadil - Ramon Grosfoguel
Salman Sayyid - Abdennur Prado - Sherman Jackson - Arzu Merali
Houria Bouteldja - Arun Rasiah - Santiago Slabodsky Sirin Adlbi Sibai - Munir Jiwa
The above professors teach specialized courses on a wide array of subjects. The courses include an intensive seminar by Hatem Bazian on Palestine and its anti-colonial struggle of liberation; a seminar by Sherman Jackson on African-American Muslims and their relation with Muslim immigrants in the USA; a seminar by Salman Sayyid on Political Theory, Muslims and the politics of Islamophobia; a seminar by Nadia Fadil on European Muslims and the Western Politics of the Religious-Secular divide; a seminar by Hamid Algar on Islamic Radical Thought; a seminar by Asma Lamrabet on Islamic Feminism; a critical analysis of Zionism by Marc H. Ellis from a Jewish Theology of Liberation perspective, among other courses. This description is meant to give you a brief idea of the broad scope of topics covered during the two week Summer School.
About the CENTER
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NURA - Centro de Estudios para el Diálogo Intercultural, is a non-profit and non-governmental organization promoting research, knowledge, education and public policy towards intercultural dialogues. The objective of NURA is to promote intercultural dialogues toward the goals of peace, human understanding, and solidarity in the world beyond the corporate logic of profits, the regulatory/military logic of states and the epistemic logic of fundamentalisms of any kind including Eurocentric fundamentalism.
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