Speaker:
Abolfazl Ahangari, PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

Respondent:
Arash Davari, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Date: Friday, February 24, 2023
Time: 10:30 am Hong Kong Time
Venue: On Zoom

This seminar discusses the history of reformism in Islam and argues that the reform project is aimed at providing an answer to a secular need for historicizing the sacred, making it worldly, and reviving it in and for the present condition.