Doha Winter Intensive 2017 Archives | Contending Modernities

Photo Credit: Javed Akhatar. Madrasa Discourses students in the Education City Mosque in Doha in December 2017.

Pondering Theodicy in Education City

Series: Doha Winter Intensive 2017

Javed Akhatar
May 4, 2018

How can old tradition serve new knowledge creation? From a theological perspective, what happens when science begins to see human beings as it sees other animals, plants, and even inanimate matter?

In Pursuit of Our Aesthetic Past

Series: Doha Winter Intensive 2017

Mohammad Ali
April 2, 2018October 4, 2018

What was it that disconnected the vast majority of South Asian Muslims from this vibrant tradition of art and creativity?

Translating Islam Across Cosmologies in Qatar

Series: Doha Winter Intensive 2017

Talha Rehman
February 23, 2018February 20, 2019

It can be unsettling for Muslims like myself, who have grown up reading the Quranic account of human creation in a particular way, to consider evolution a valid explanation for the creation of life.

Doha Winter Intensive 2017 Articles

Pondering Theodicy in Education City

In Pursuit of Our Aesthetic Past

Translating Islam Across Cosmologies in Qatar