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Of Hostility and Irrelevance

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Rajbir Singh Judge
May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?

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Contention, Dwelling, and the Loss of Loss

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Randeep Singh Hothi
May 15, 2025

The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost.

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Loss, Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition: India and the World

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Nirvikar Singh
May 13, 2025May 16, 2025

The material problems of Indian Punjab will not be solved by a Khalsa Raj. Political autonomy will do nothing by itself to shift Punjab’s economy out of a destructive and unsustainable trap of growing wheat and rice for India’s food security.

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The Mute Eloquence of Impossible Histories

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Purnima Dhavan
May 1, 2025

There is room to embrace the ethics of the vision in this book while still historicizing profusely and even counter-historicizing.

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Introduction to Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Joshua S. Lupo
May 1, 2025May 27, 2025

Judge suggests that the past never contains the certainties we like to project onto it, and thus that the present is unlikely to contain them either.

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Enrique Dussel and Latin American Liberation Theologies

Series: Remembering Dussel
Amirah Orozco
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Dussel provides us with tools to problematize Eurocentric accounts of religion/secularism broadly, Christianity more specifically, and most fundamentally, the entire discipline of theology.

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Reason’s Idols: A Response to Khan Asfandyar Shairani and Joshua S. Lupo

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Khaled Furani
February 23, 2023September 15, 2024

If revelation is arguably the humbler of reason, when might we reasonably expect reason to be capable of humbling revelation? When might a rock humble the rain?

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Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Joshua S. Lupo
January 31, 2023January 24, 2024

Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.

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The Idea of Progress and Its Discontents in Islamic Thought

Ebrahim Moosa
January 10, 2023February 1, 2024

We do know one thing taught by experience: the dominant paradigms need to be continuously contested with alternative ways of knowing, different types of knowledge, and novel models for society-building.

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Theology and the Ironies of History

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Ebrahim Moosa
February 16, 2021March 2, 2021

Most theological disputes have an afterlife, and some of these intricate and subtle debates about the authority of Islam’s messenger and prophet still percolate in the hearts and minds of the faithful to this very day.

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