Discourses of the Secular

Thinking about language and law in the modern age Abdalhakim Andersson – Director of Studies MFAS The purpose of the following lecture – entitled Discourses of the Secular – is not to cover the full spectrum of secular ideas and realities in the modern age. Nor is it to make pronouncements about the virtues or …

The Translation of Identity

New Approaches to European Thinking through Arabic Abdassamad Clarke – Dean MFAS The identity of the Muslim and of the Ummah could not be clearer. Indeed, the issue before us is in some sense behind us: the translation of that identity into a British, European and Western setting. The fact of our meeting and the …