NMC381H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Progressive Muslim Union, Omid Safi, Liberation Theology
2 Apr 2017
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Back to the beginning of the semester brings together everything and is taking a stand against purist approach. Elements of progressive islam: social justice, gender justice, pluralism. Safi speaks of value of every human life. Progressive muslim unit network found in 1998 mostly through the internet. Progressive muslim union: michael mohammad knight, subversive contemporary muslim preacher, got to islam through malcom x, taqwacore his book, rooted in pop culture and literature, why am i a salafi by him, reinventing a tradition. Progressive reform should be about social justice issue. New organization muslims for progressive values. A rethinking of the very idea of the mosque and procreation: born in the us, professor of islamic studies at duke university, interested in sufism , medival islamic history and contemporary islamic though, co-found of progression muslim union. Harvard: progressive activism, quran liberation and pluralism, quran contains a liberation theology, shows this by relating quranic ideas to the political situation in south africa.
