ICRA lectures and suggested topics

Scheduled lectures:

• April 30, 2009: Prophetic Tradition between People of Reason & People of Narration: A Book Review (By Khaled Hamid) -For details click here.
• June 2009: On the tense relation between American Media, Islam and Muslims: Critical evaluation. (By Tim Townsend, Religion Editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
• July 2009: Constitution making in Islam - Is Islamic law compatible with constitutional principles?" (By Amany Hacking, Assistant Professor, St Louis University School of Law)
  

Past lectures:

• April 25, 2009 : Early Muslims and the Origins of Knowledge and Science (By Dr. Hayrettin Yucesoy, Assistant professor of History at Saint Louis University) -For details click here.

Suggested lecture topics:

• Its rise and fall in Muslim societies: role of religion. Can the fall be reversed?
• Islam and the constitutions: Islamic law and its impact of modern constitutions and legal systems in Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
• Democracy in Islam: A core value, or Trojan horse.
• Political structure in Islam: History of Islamic early politics, and impact on modern Muslims.
• Islam: State or Personal religion?
• Supremacy of the Clergy and Religious Scholars (Welayat al-Faqueeh): An artifact or a sine qua non for Islamic ideology
• History of Islamic Jurisprudence:
• Is the diversity in Islamic schools of thought good or bad? Needed or not?
• And how the thought process rooted in flexibility was cast in stone.
• Freedom of expression: Does it harm of benefit belief?
• Status of women - Religion vs. realities past and present.
• Muslims and non-Muslims: friends or foes?
• Minority treatment under Islam: Religion vs. realities past and present.
• Critical thinking in the Quran and early Islamic tradition.
• Muslims in the media: Whose fault is it? And is there a way out of the current two-way communication failure?
• Eco-conscious Islam: Is there such a thing?

I hope to keep moving titles from 'Suggested Topics' to 'Scheduled and Past lectures'. If you would like top suggest a topic, a speaker or an event other than a lecture please leave a comment.

Khaled