February 14, 2018
All Day
020 Page Hall
Time: 7 p.m.
Event Host: Center for Ethics and Human Values
Event Host: Center for Ethics and Human Values
ABSTRACT: Public discourse on Islam often opines that Islam still stands in need of a Reformation along the lines that of European Christianity. What this discourse misses, however, is that early modern Muslim societies did witness the rise of Reformist thought. This talk examines the most important Sunni expression of Reformist thought in modern Sunni Islam – Salafism – and explores some of the reasons why it failed to achieve much of its political program and reformist aims.
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