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REVIEW OF Zahra Ayubi. Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society

REVIEW OF Zahra Ayubi. Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society .New York, NY: Columbia University Press, August 2019. 336 pages. $35.00. Paperback. ISBN 9780231191333. Unedited version .To appear in Reading Religion  By: Dr. Adis Duderija, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Society, Griffith University a.duderija@griffith.edu.au Over the last few decades a number of important scholarly discussions on the highly   gendered   ( in a patriarchal sense) nature of Islamic intellectual tradition   have been written but whose focus primarily has been on the Islamic legal tradition (fiqh) ( e.g. K.Ali,   A. Chaudhry, A.Mahellati )   and to a lesser extent Qur’anic commentary (tafsir) ( e.g. K. Bauer , A.Geissenger). Ayubi’s remarkably well written and comprehensively referenced book provides further evidence of the same dynamics at play in the context of exploring three most influential writers of the akh...

How to Defeat the Clash of Extremisms: Civilisational Hybridity and Trust Building in the Multicultural West

How to Defeat the Clash of Extremisms:    Civilisational Hybridity and Trust Building in the Multicultural West  Dr. Adis Duderija In my talk, I would like to highlight how the concept of civilisational hybridity and efforts aiming at building of trust along   religious lines as exemplified   by the event we are commemorating   this evening can help counter the harmful effects of   the two most prevalent and arguably   most pernicious, but unfortunately not only,   forms of extremism today   namely ethno-nationalism   associated with white supremacist groups   and religious associated with violent Islamic radicalism. I will do so from a historically informed perspective of examining the historical nature of the civilisational interactions between the Arabo-Islamic civilisation and that of the Latin Christian West. 1.      The Clash of Extremisms: In the 1990s in the the aftermath of the Cold War...

MY OP ED ON CHRISTCHURCH MASSACRE

MY OP ED ON CHRISTCHURCH MASSACRE: One paragraph ( below) is missing and will be added : "Some want us to believe that white supremacism has been a reaction to and wouldn't exist if there was no Islamist terrorism. While there is a link between the two, we should not forget that white supremacism existed much earlier and that its victims both in the recent and not so recent past have been Jewish and African American communities". https://www.abc.net.au/religion/dismantling-supremacist-ideology-after-christchurch/10914352