Sign up for the zoom link: Islamic law -an ethical framework or juristic game?

Date and time: January 30th, 2023, 18:00-20:00 EET/Helsinki time

Speaker: Dr. Mona Siddiqui

Venue: University of Helsinki AND Zoom
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Abstract: Known as the queen of sciences in Islamic thought, Fiqh is a literary and intellectual discipline which also serves to provide ethical guidance to the faithful. The lecture will reflect on a variety of juristic arguments from the classical manuals to illustrate how the juristic form and style maintained a legal and devotional tradition.  

Bio: Professor Siddiqui is an internationally recognised academic and broadcaster at the University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are primarily in the field of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and ethics and Christian-Muslim relations. She is an internationally sought after public speaker on religion, ethics and public life. Professor Siddiqui is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, holds six honorary doctorates and an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society of Scottish Architects for her contributions to public life. She is the recipient of many grants, the most recent from the Issachar Fund on the theme of Gratitude in Christian and Islamic thought; an edited volume on this topic is currently in press with CUP. Amongst her most recent publications are, Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, based on her 2016 Gifford lectures (CUP, 2021), and 50 Ideas in Islam (Quercus, 2016). She is currently working on her next monograph, Faith and Fidelity in Islamic Thought which will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. In September 2022, Professor Siddiqui became the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies. 

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