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BLM: Bilal and the formation of the early …
Recent events highlight the religious obligation of engaging with, contributing to and supporting social justice movements. Black Lives Matter has spread across the world. In different places and spaces the violence of racism is being challenged. Black lives also matter throughout time.
Recent events highlight the religious obligation of engaging with, contributing to and supporting social justice movements. Black Lives Matter has spread across the world. In different places and spaces the violence of racism is being challenged. Black lives also matter throughout time. The life of Bilal needs to be re-examined from early Islamicate sources that need to be recovered to illustrate how the indomitable spirit of faith deals with subjection, racism, religious persecution and political marginalisation. Bilal is not a token, but a symbol. Bilal helps make the Muslim Ummah truly universal.
Join Sheikh Dr. Tajul Islam (Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam), Professor S. Sayyid (Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies) and Sheikh Ahmed Haneef (Islamic Centre of England) for a conversation on the role of Bilal in disrupting racial and social hierarchies and underwriting the egalitarianism of the Islamicate.
WHERE?
SR (1.08), Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT
WHEN?
Monday the 20th March 2017
18:30 – 20:30
Brought to you by:
Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies
ReOrient; The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies
LUU Ahlul Bayt Islamic Society
LUU Islamic Society
- March 16, 2017
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