Workshop Materials Summer Programme 2013
Sunday 11th August 2013
Afternoon - Encountering Islam
Kenduri in Southeast Asia
Video - Bacaan Doa Selamat at Kenduri on 27th May 2012
Music
Music in Muslim Shrines Act, 1942
Think Africa Press - Singing, spirituality and Islam: If music be the food of love
Video - Bi Kidude singing Ahmad Umelewa (Ahmad you are drunk)
Monday 12th August 2013
Morning - The Built Environment of Muslim Civilisation: Expression through Art and Architecture
**workshop material to be shared on site**
Afternoon - Depicting the Prophet
Cartoons
Q&A: Depicting the Prophet Muhammad
Moderates, too, were hurt by sacrilegious cartoons
Blasphemy
Aasia Bibi’s case: Weighed down by guilt, blasphemy accuser mulls pulling back http://tribune.com.pk/story/324943/aasia-bibis-case-weighed-down-by-guilt-blasphemy-accuser-mulls-pulling-back/
CBN video – Interview of Asia’s husband and children
Tuesday 13th August 2013
Morning - Scripture and Revelation
Qur’an Burning in Florida and Afghanistan
Qur’an Burning Protests: Two US soldiers shot dead by Afghan colleague
CNN video – Qur’an Burning with Terry Jones
CNN video – Fareed Zakaria: The Take: Qur’an burning
The Origins of the Qur’an
Video– The oldest Qur’anic manuscripts
Afternoon - Muslim Values and Ethics
Calling for a new interpretation: Islamic law & ethics — Qantara (August 2012)
Video: Emory University - What is bioethics?
Aga Khan University Patient Rights and Responsibilities Code
Organ donation in Islam — NHS Guide (UK)
Video - Iran’s Organ Programme
First UK Opt-Out Scheme on organs (June 2013)
Majority of religious people support assisted suicide — poll (Apr 2013)
Wednesday 14th August 2013
Morning - Post-Prophetic Institutions: The Sunni Ideal
Re-establishing the caliphate?
Al Qaeda wants to establish 7000 km wide African caliphate —Freed UN envoy
Egyptians call for Sharia Law, Islamic caliphate
Negotiating Sunnah
Qur'an only Islam - Why it is not possible
Video - Revive the Sunnah of the Khu-fain
Clinging to the ropes of the faith
Afternoon - Post-Prophetic Institutions: The Continuation of Charisma
Intra-faith unity
Building Shia-Sunni unity this Ramadan
Shias and Sunnis
UN approached over targeted killings of Pakistani Shias
Syria: A new battlefield for Shias and Sunnis
The International Islamic Conference 2005
Letter from His Highness the Aga Khan – International Islamic Conference 2005
Are Shias Muslim?
Thursday 15th August 2013
Morning - The Journey Within
Destruction of shrines
Suicide bombers strike Sufi shrine in Pakistan
Bomb blast in Pakpattan kills four, injures 13: Yet another shrine comes under attack
Timbuktu shrine destruction 'a war crime'
Al Jazeera video – Sufis under attack in Pakistan
Sufi Practices
Video - Magal 2010: Ziars to Touba
Video - Sufi Muslim Doc in Senegal, "Touba"
Video - Sufi: Singing and dancing when making dhikr
A whirling Sufi revival with unclear implications
Afternoon - Exploring the Diversity within the Ismaili Traditions
**workshop materials to be provided in due course**
Friday 16th August 2013
Morning - Law in Muslim Contexts
Fatwas on women in high heels, working and driving
Fatwas of Ibn Baz: Ruling on a female driving a car
Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will be 'end of virginity'
Son of former Saudi Mufti expresses liberal views
Saudi preacher slams women cashiers
Shaykh Muhammad al-Munajjid: What is the ruling on women wearing high heels?
Al Jazeera video – Saudi women defy ban to take driver’s seat
Women 'banned from shopping alone' in northern Pakistan
Polio vaccination
Muslim cleric says polio vaccine is against Islam-Pakistan”
Nigeria's struggle to beat polio
Muslim scholars fight to dispel polio vaccination myths in Pakistan
NDTV video – Fatwa against polio in Lucknow
Pakistan battles polio and its people’s mistrust
Afternoon - From the Historical to the Modern
Nationalism, Secularism and Religion
With Israel set to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews, those already in service face ire
Video – American girl, 8, is target of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel
Why the Turkish protests matter to the West
Turkish and Arab political Islam ‘differ in secularism’
Colonial Boundaries, Nation-States and Minorities
The fault line between Pashtuns and Punjabis in Pakistan
Saturday 17th August 2013
Morning - Contemporary Muslim Landscape
Republic of Iran
Huffington Post – The Erotic Republic of Iran? Not Really
Foreign Policy – Erotic Republic
Paradoxes of Arab Refo-Lutions
Egypt Revolution
Informed Comment – Egypt’s ‘Revocouption’ and the future of democracy on the Nile
Jadaliyya – Midwife for a pregnant Egypt
Afternoon - Islamophobia and Westophobia
Islamophobia in the US
New Strategy for Ground Zero mosque
Mosque in Tennessee (includes an audio clip)
Islamophobia in Europe
Swiss ban the building of minarets
RT video clip – Swissed-off: Outrage as ‘minaret ban’ scandal flares up
Video clip – Tariq Ramadan: Integration & Pluralism
Veiling in France, Turkey, and Egypt (includes a video clip)
Iranophobia/ Shiaphobia
Iran Regime Charges U.S. Is Stoking “Iran Phobia”
