Madrasa Discourses Archives | Contending Modernities

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.

COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity

Mary Kate Godfrey, Zulqernain Haider and Sidra Zulfaqar
December 6, 2021December 7, 2021

The sources of conspiracies are not religious beliefs but rather are the reservations and vulnerabilities a community already has towards the government, society, or another distrusted entity.

Madrasa Discourses in Hindsight

Ammar Khan Nasir
November 3, 2021

At the end of the first iteration of the program, it can be said without doubt that Madrasa Discourses has helped madrasa graduates in a number of fundamental way

Allama Shibli Nomani: An Architect of Modern Islamic Education

Syed Hasan Sardar
September 21, 2021January 25, 2024

Shibli’s attempt to modernize madrasa education provided a durable impetus for social and educational reform within religious society, the impact of which is felt even today.

Madrasa Discourses Free and Online

Dania Straughan
March 29, 2021

There is a fear that the Islamic scholarly debate is at risk of losing to the secular modern world.

Literature, Theology, and Abul Kalām Āzād

Series: Madrasa Discourses

Sameena Kausar
August 20, 2020January 27, 2024

To think critically means one has to closely study one’s surroundings and look at things in unprecedented ways. We know that the voice of literature has the power to create such new ways of seeing.

Madrasa Discourses Goes to Bangladesh

Series: Madrasa Discourses

Joshua S. Lupo
January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

At the end of the workshop, it was clear that there was enthusiastic interest in both the topics and approach adopted by Madrasa Discourses. It was also clear that there were unique challenges as well as possibilities that might come with expanding the existing program to include Bangladesh.

Why Madrasa Graduates Should Study Modern Science and Philosophy: Reflections on an Ongoing Debate on Madrasa Discourses in India

Series: Madrasa Discourses

Talha Rehman
December 9, 2019January 27, 2024

There is a need to have a serious discussion on epistemology in order to rebuild the Islamic tradition in a new manner that is robust and coherent on the one hand, and on the other, is flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances that future generations are bound to encounter.

The Future of Islamic Authority: New Recipes for Milk Shaykhs

Mahan Mirza
October 11, 2019October 14, 2019

Things are most interesting, however, at edges, intersections, and boundaries. That is where complexity resides, and that is where the kind of enduring authority that will command the middle can best plant its flag.

Without Literacy, There is No Wisdom: Reflections on Madrasa Discourses’ Summer Intensive in India

Mohammad Ali
September 30, 2019October 2, 2019

Muslim scholars should show courage to shoulder the accountability of the history they inherit and be ready to reinterpret parts of their tradition which are inconsistent with their modern experiences.

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