Whether it is the spike in blasphemy charges and vigilante violence against religious minorities in some Muslim-majority countries, or the response to the publication of offensive images of the Prophet Mohammad in the West, the question of blasphemy in Muslim majority and minority contexts remains a sensitive one.
What do the Quran and prophetic tradition tell us about responding to blasphemy, how did the Islamic legal tradition develop norms around it, what was the impact of colonialism on these norms, and how have contemporary Muslim-majority countries responded to the question of blasphemy in their constitutions and societies?
To respond to these questions and more, we will be joined by Dr. Muqtedar Khan (University of Delaware), Dr. Sarah El Tantawi (Fordham University), and Dr. Yasir Qadhi (Islamic Seminary of America) on March 11.
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SPEAKER BIOS:
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He was the founding director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware from 2007-2010. He was Fellow and Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution from 2003-2008.
His areas of interest are Politics of the Middle East and South Asia, Political Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Islam in America, American Foreign Policy in the Muslim World and Good Governance. His latest book Islam and Good Governance has received the 2019 excellence in scholarship award from AFMI and has been listed as one the best all time books in political philosophy by the nonfiction book portal Book Authority.
Dr. Eltantawi is Associate Professor of Modern Islam at Fordham University in New York City. Her work focuses on contemporary Islam and Islamic law, especially in the context of post-coloniality and authoritarianism. Dr. Eltantawi is on the steering committee for the Contemporary Islam section of the American Academy of Religion, and frequently comments in the international media on issues
concerning Islam and geopolitics. She earned her PhD in the Study of Religion in 2012 from Harvard University, where she was the Jennifer W. Oppenheimer Fellow and Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard; and a BA in English and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Yasir Qadhi is an imam and Resident Scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center. He is also the Dean of The Islamic Seminary of America, as well as an executive member of the Fiqh Council of North America.Yasir graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah.
After completing a diploma in Arabic, he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences, and then completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah. He then returned to America, and completed a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has authored several books, published academic articles, and appeared on numerous satellite and TV stations around the globe. His online videos are of the most popular and highly-watched Islamic videos in English.