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Honouring Mohammed Arkoun Recipient of the Levi Della Vida Prize

University of California, Los AngelesMay 10-11, 2002

Presentation of the Seventeenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award in Islamic StudiesChancellor Albert Carnesale

• “From Islamology to the Critique of ‘Islamic’ Reason” Mohammed ArkounEmeritus Professor, La Sorbonne, Paris and Governor, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
• “Other Enlightenments?: The Tradition of Reform in 18th-Century Islamic Thought”Ahmad DallalHistory, Stanford University
• ”The Place of Intelligence in Islamic Philosophy”William ChittickReligious Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook
• DiscussionAzim NanjiDirector, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
• “Islam and Secular Humanism”Sadik Al-AzmPhilosophy and Sociology, University of Damascus
• “Reflections on Justice in Modern Islamic Thought”Gudrun KraemerIslamic Studies, Free University of Berlin
• DiscussionLeonard BinderPolitical Science, UCLA