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The Institute and Pakistan@Berkeley, a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, are proud to announce the eleventh “Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan” by historian of South Asia and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, Professor Faisal Devji.
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- DATE: Sat, Apr 20, 2024
- TIME: 4-6 pm PST
- VENUE: 10 Stephens Hall
- LIVESTREAM: On FB at ISASatUCBerkeley
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TALK ABSTRACT: Controversies about insults to the Prophet began in India during the middle of the nineteenth century to become global at the end of the Cold War. Such controversies emerge from the stripping away of (Prophet) Muhammad’s religious as much as political character such that he becomes vulnerable to insult as an ordinary person. The passions aroused among Muslims by insults to a Prophet so much like themselves take the place of his vanishing religio-political role. They represent the impossible effort to recover a theological language and experience for modern Islam.
SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Faisal Devji is Professor of Indian History and Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research, as well as the Yves Oltramane Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Devji has been a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Institute of Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013).
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The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan is named in honor of one of the leading figures in the history of the Habib family. Through this lecture series the Habib family aims to improve and diversify conversations about Pakistan in the United States as well as create opportunities for US and Pakistan-based scholars to dialogue. More about the Habib Distinguished Lecture series HERE
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
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