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Islam and/in/of the West Pt. 3

Talk by Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad - 16th February 2010 - Cardiff - 46 mins 09 secs

The third installment of our loosely-linked trilogy on Islam and identity in the West, this talk was given by Sheikh Abdal Hakim at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University. Intriguingly entitled 'Can Non-Muslims Be Indigenous? Reflections on the Paradox of British Islam', it uses the work of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (particularly The Flying Inn, a fantasy novel set in a teetotal Britain under the sway of a renewed Ottoman Empire) to explore some underlying resonances between Islam and the religious culture and history of the British Isles. Beyond that, it somewhat defies easy explanation or summary, at least by this listener, but is all the more interesting for that. Enjoy!

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5 comments:

Unknown said...

salam alakum

will sh.abdal hakim murad be delievering the kutba at 2morrows jumah??

salams

Cambridge Khutbas said...

Walaykum assalaam,

Not sure, sorry! Try emailing CU ISoc - contact details at http://www.isoc.co.uk/

Unknown said...

jazakhallah...

p.s is this not official sh. abdal website??

Cambridge Khutbas said...

Waiyyakum . . . Not exactly. I mean, he knows about it and had given us permission to run it, but it's not 'the official' site :) . . . Salaam

Cambridge Khutbas said...

Assalamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah,

Shaykh Abdal Hakim will not be giving the khutba tomorrow - for the students in Cambridge at least.

Salam