International Conference - Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World

International Conference - Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World

7. -9. May 2010
Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main
Campus Westend, Casino 1.801

Participants please register until April 26th with full name and address at: Islamic-world@normativeorders.net
http://www.normativeorders.net/de/component/content/article/346

The Conference:

In his last large collection of poems, which he entitled the "West-Eastern Divan", Johann Wolfgang Goethe, after whom our university is named, wrote the following lines:

Wer sich selbst und andere kennt, Wird auch hier erkennen: Orient und Okzident Sind nicht mehr zu trennen.

Those who know themselves and others Will realize here, too, That the Orient and the Occident Have become inseparable.

As researchers who are part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", we regard Goethe's approach as an incentive to look into our shared history and present, as well as into the development of normative orders in the Islamic world, in an interdisciplinary group of scholars - both Muslim and non-Muslim - from various countries of the Orient and Occident.

Programme:
Friday, 7.05.2010
15.00 registration
16.00 welcome addresses

Panel I: Entangled histories. From Averroes to Sayyed Qutb
17.00 Hassan Hanafi (Cairo University)
"Persecution and Norm, A comparative analysis between Averroes and Sayyed Qutb"
18.00 Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Reason and religion. The relationship among two competing normative concepts"

Saturday, 8.05.2010
Panel II: Shaping Islam in the West
10.00 Peter Scholz (Free University of Berlin)
"Characteristics of the Legal Framework for a European Islam"
11.00 Schirin Amir-Moazami (Free University of Berlin)
"Gendered Islam under state surveillance"

Panel III: Reform Islam: Liberal and feminist approaches
14.00 Siti Musdah Mulia (Islamic University Jakarta)
"Reform Islam in Indonesia"
15.00 Susanne Schröter (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Islamic Feminism - a transnational movement"
16.00 Margot Badran (Georgetown University)
"Reformist women in early 20th century Egypt and lessons for the present"

Sunday, 9.05.2010
Panel IV: Islam, politics and the modern nation
10.00 Farish A. Noor (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Political Contestation in Malaysia's Ethnic Setting: The Debate over the use of 'Allah' by Christians"
11.00 Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zürich)
"Islamic family law and international legal norms in the Arab world"
12.00 Farid Esack (University of Johannesburg)