Attending such a large-scale conference in Oxford immediately puts one at an intellectual mode, especially in Oxford University’s prestigious Sheldonian Theatre.
.... I walked away with many jewels and buoyant hopes for a world with better engagement on the part of Muslims. However, I was left puzzled as to how to define my role and identify means by which I could, as a Muslim citizen in a Muslims-majority country, participate in shaping and making reform, when there is absolutely no participating mechanism established, especially not for women. [Maqasid Press] Read more
Tariq Ramadan: Not so radical reform .... So is Dr Tariq Ramadan calling for something new in the call for reform? In general, he and other contemporary revivalist thinkers are really regurgitating the message of their predecessors that we need to engage in the process of ijtihad in order to translate the spirit and message of the texts upon the context (waqi’). And not that Islam itself requires reform like certain other faiths. [Maqasid Press] Read more
