DESCRIPTION

3 Live Seminars | Weekly Sundays | Starts August 2nd | 6pm -8pm UK, 10am-12pm CA

This three-part seminar takes up a central Muslim question of our moment, what does it mean to think, know, and produce knowledge outside the frameworks bequeathed to us by the Western colonial empire?
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Western modernity did not merely conquer Muslim territory, it colonized the very categories through which the world is rendered intelligible, casting its own provincial and racist assumptions as universal reason while displacing every other tradition of knowing into the realm of the particular, the folkloric, the pre-modern. To decolonize, then, is not only to contest power but to recover the epistemological ground from which Muslim societies once articulated their own understanding of self, society, and the sacred.

BREAKDOWN

Across three sessions, we treat the Islamic intellectual tradition not as an artifact to be studied but as a living system of knowledge with its own sources, methods, and claims to truth, one capable of speaking back to the colonial dehumanising archive and offering an alternative to it.

  • SEMINAR ONE | Why Decolonization Requires Islamic Epistemology

  • SEMINAR TWO | Reading Fanon, Césaire, and the Limits of Secular Liberation

  • SEMINAR THREE | What Comes After Liberation? Islam, Knowledge, and the Recovery of the Human

TEACHER

Dr Hatem Bazian

Dr. Hatem Bazian is a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley, a leading Decolonial scholar whose work centers Islam's epistemology and Global South analysis. He is the author of five books, many Chapters in edited volumes and hundreds of articles and Op-Ed pieces. He founded the Islamophobia Studies Center, serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, and is President of International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association. Dr. Bazian co-founded Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim liberal arts college. Dr. Bazian is also President of the Northern California Islamic Council, co-founder and Chairman of American Muslims for Palestine, and Chairman of the board of the Muslim Legal Fund for America.

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Recordings will be made available to those who cannot attend the live sessions. We aim to make our programs as accessible as possible. If cost is a barrier, please email [email protected] to discuss available options.

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