Tuesday, 9 March 2010

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:

  1. Unknown11 March 2010 at 13:49

    salam alakum

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

    salams

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  2. Cambridge Khutbas11 March 2010 at 15:07

    Walaykum assalaam,

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

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  3. Unknown11 March 2010 at 19:48

    jazakhallah...

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

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  4. Cambridge Khutbas11 March 2010 at 20:07

    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

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  5. Cambridge Khutbas11 March 2010 at 23:29

    Assalamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah,

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

    Salam

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