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February

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Venue:GC Bookstore

This book resists the homogenization of Muslim women by detailing the diversity in their lives and by challenging the dominant paradigm of Arabized Islam as the sole interpreter of the faith. Though much has been written on the Middle East, there is a huge gap in research on Asia, which has two-thirds of the world’s Muslim population. These essays reveal that the lives of Muslim women are impacted not only by Islam but also by local politics, class, religion, and ethnicity.

March

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Venue:PC 214

Migration of Gujarati speakers to Western Europe and North American combined with the digital revolution has created new challenges for the transmission of religious ideas across linguistic divides. This panel of the world’s foremost Gujarati translation experts will discuss the challenges of translation from and into Gujarati.

October

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Venue:GL 165

This lecture will explore the origins, state, and responses to militant-extremism in the world today. Imam Haneef will present an Islamic reading of the notion of struggle and peace in combating militant-extremism in the world today. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is at the forefront of promoting tolerance and pluralism in Muslim world, despite being a persecuted minority community.

November

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This presentation views the story of Islam and Muslim communities- past and present- as part of, rather than as alien to, Latin America and the Caribbean. Instead of telling the stories in isolation from one another, Chitwood shares an overview of the historical and contemporary story of Muslims in Latin America and the Caribbean while not losing sight of hemispheric connections across the Americas.

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Venue:FIU-MMC, GL 165

This lecture will explore the impact of colonization on social identity construction in South Asia. The impact of colonization is seen in how South Asians understand their own history and see their place in human history. The need to create ‘scientific’ basis for religion is one dimension to how humanities in South Asia continue to be incumbered by the colonial experience.