Type: Education - Workshop
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Kimmel Room 802
Street: 60 Washington Square South
City/Town: New York, NY
Description
This event will focus on socially constructed gender roles and distinguishing the gender norms endemic to Islam with those prevalent in dominant cultures throughout the Muslim world and the United States. The discussion will also focus on the implications that these differences manifest in society at large for both men and women. We hope that you will be able to join us to hear the different perspectives that each speaker has to offer on the significance that gender has had from historical to contemporary societies and within Islam.
Note: Please arrive on time so we can begin promptly. There will be a break for maghrib prayer, so do not worry about that, inshallah.
Speakers:
*Dr. Sherman Jackson
*Professor Sumaiya Hamdani
*Professor Marion Katz
*Haroon Moghul
**Dr. (Sherman) Abd al-Hakim Jackson: a native of Philadelphia, received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in Oriental Studies –Islamic Near East in 1990. Presently, he is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Visiting Professor of Law, and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan. From 1987-89, he served as Executive Director for the Center of Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt.
Dr. Abd al-Hakim Jackson has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University and Wayne State University. In addition to numerous articles on Islamic law, theology and history, he is author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (E.J. Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (Oxford, 2002) and, most recently, the controversial Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (Oxford, 2005).
Dr. Abd al-Hakim Jackson is co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), a primary instructor at its programs, and a member of its Board of Trustees. Jackson is also a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Sharî‘ah Scholars’ Association of North America (SSANA) and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). He is a sought-after speaker and has lectured throughout the US and in numerous countries abroad.
**Professor Sumaiya Hamdani: is Associate Professor at George Mason University and founder and director of the Islamic Studies Program. She completed her B.A. in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, her M.A. at the American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Princeton University. Hamdani has also taught Middle East, Islamic and Global history at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington (1995-96). Hamdani has published in the field of medieval Islamic thought and law, and Muslim women’s history.
**Professor Marion Katz: received my PhD from the University of Chicago in Near Eastern and Languages and Civilizations in 1997. She taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1997 to 2002 and have been at NYU since 2002. Her first book, Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity (2002), dealt with early Islamic debates over issues of purity and pollution and the insights they provide into issues relating to the body, gender, and community boundaries. The second book, The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam (2007), deals with the narratives and ritual practices surrounding the commemoration of the Prophet’s birth. Both the female-centered nature of many of the narratives and the long history of women’s involvement in this ritual practice gave this project a gendered dimension. In 2006-08, she began a new project funded by the Carnegie Corporation, focusing on the issue of women’s mosque access.
**Haroon Moghul is Executive Director of The Maydan Institute. He served as Director of Public Relations at the Islamic Center at New York University (NYU) from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Moghul holds an M.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Columbia University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. His fields of study include Muslim nationalism in South Asia, colonial and post-colonial Islamic politics and the development of the Indian Ocean economy. Mr. Moghul graduated from NYU in 2002 with a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy, and a minor in Arabic. He has also has studied Persian, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu. He was nominated for the 2009 Presidential Award for Best Teaching by a Graduate Student at Columbia University.
Mr. Moghul’s sermons and lectures are included in the Islamic Center at NYU’s new media services, which average over 30,000 unique downloads per month from over 120 countries. His academic engagements include Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota. Mr. Moghul has been interviewed by or otherwise featured on CNN, al-Hurra, The History Channel, ABC-7, Voice of America, National Public Radio (NPR), UN Radio (Arabic), The New Yorker, TIME, the Guardian, and The National (Abu Dhabi).
Formerly contributing editor and end-page columnist for Islamica Magazine, Mr. Moghul maintains a popular blog, Avari, which won several Brass Crescent Awards, including wins for Best Muslim Blog, Best Thinker and Best Writing. His essays and articles have been published in a variety of international media, including Pakistan's Dawn and The Friday Times, as well as American media, including Tikkun and Religion Dispatches. He prepares policy reports and analyses for Tabah Foundation, an Abu-Dhabi based think-tank devoted to bridging Muslim tradition and contemporary Western politics and thought. Mr. Moghul’s first analytic brief, published in English and Arabic, considered the role of Muslim scholars in encouraging dialogue with the United States. His first novel, The Order of Light, was released by Penguin Global in 2006. A French translation, Comment j'ai échappé à l'Ordre de lumière, was published by Cherche Midi in 2007.
Haroon Moghul has been selected as one of over 500 global Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT) and participated in the MLT Conference in Doha, Qatar (2009). Mr. Moghul will be presenting his research into the effects of new media at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia.
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