BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 RDATE:20180311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 RDATE:20181104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T183000 LOCATION:Miller Hall\, Room 105 GEO:45.450858;-122.668265 SUMMARY:55th Annual Arthur L. Throckmorton Memorial Lecture DESCRIPTION:The Light in Islam: \; Muslims and Liberalism in South As ia Do Islamic imperatives prevent Muslims from embracing liberal values? Or is Western liberalism designed to exclude Muslims? This lecture addre sses these questions by assessing Indian Muslim responses to the liberal ideals propagated by the British in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Several Indian Muslim intellectuals operating at the transnational level connected with counterparts in other parts of the Muslim world in efforts to challenge Western writers and policymakers who portrayed the Faithful as averse to reform and progress. \; T here is a need for a critical evaluation of the Orientalist foregrounding of "religion"\, narrowly and imprecisely defined\, to the point of reify ing Islam in everything Muslims think\, say or do. This lecture offers an alternative and historically nuanced interpretation of "liberalism" or\, more aptly "roshan khayali' (enlightened thought) as understood by Musli ms\, who not only engaged with but also exposed the contradictions in the articulations and practices of Western liberalism in the age of empire. In so doing\, it explores whether the perceived lack of liberalism among Muslims is a product of Western liberalism's willful exclusion and miscon ceptions of Islam or \;rooted in the Muslim religious tradition. &# 160\;Ayesha Jalal \;is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tu fts University where she teaches at both the History Department and the F letcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She obtained her BA\, majoring in Hi story and Political Science\, from Wellesley College\, USA\, and her doct orate in history from the University of Cambridge. Dr Jalal has been a fe llow of Trinity College\, Cambridge (1980-84)\, Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies\, Cambridge (1984-87)\, fellow of the Woodr ow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington\, DC (1985-86) and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Stu dies (1988-90). Between 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur Fellow. She has tau ght at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Tufts University\, Columbia University and Harvard University. Her publications include \;The Sol e Spokesman:Jinnah\, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan \; (Cambridge 1985 and 1994)\; \;The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence \;(Cambridge\, 1990) and&# 160\;Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A \;Comparative an d Historical Perspective \;(Cambridge 1995). Dr Jalal has co-authored \;Modern South Asia: History\, Culture and Political Economy \;( Routledge 1998) with Sugata Bose which has been published by Oxford Unive rsity Press in India and by Sang-e-Meel in Pakistan. Her study of Muslim identity in the subcontinent\, entitled \;Self and Sovereignty: The M uslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South Asia since c.1850 60\;appeared in 2000-2001 \; \;(London/New York:Routledge\, Delhi : Oxford University Press and Lahore:Sang-e-Meel). She has also authored& #160\;Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia \;(Cambridge\, M.A: Har vard University Press\; Lahore: Sang-e-Meel\, 2008). She has also edited& #160\;TheOxford Companion to Pakistani History \;(Oxford University P ress 2012) and co-edited a bilingual Urdu and English volume entitled 0\;Manto \;(Sang-e-Meel Publications 2012). Her Lawrence Stone Lectur es given at the Davis Center at Princeton University in April 2011 were p ublished as \;The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life\, Times \;and W ork Across the India-Pakistan Divide \;(Princeton University Press\, Spring 2013). Dr. Jalal's most recent book is \;The Struggle for Paki stan: \;A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics \;(Cambridge\, M.A: Harvard University Press\, 2014). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Do Islamic imperatives pre vent Muslims from embracing liberal values? Or is Western liberalism desi gned to exclude Muslims? This lecture addresses these questions by assess ing Indian Muslim responses to the liberal ideals propagated by the Briti sh in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sev eral Indian Muslim intellectuals operating at the transnational level con nected with counterparts in other parts of the Muslim world in efforts to challenge Western writers and policymakers who portrayed the Faithful as averse to reform and progress.
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There is a need f or a critical evaluation of the Orientalist foregrounding of "religion"\, narrowly and imprecisely defined\, to the point of reifying Islam in eve rything Muslims think\, say or do. This lecture offers an alternative and historically nuanced interpretation of "liberalism" or\, more aptly "ros han khayali' (enlightened thought) as understood by Muslims\, who not onl y engaged with but also exposed the contradictions in the articulations a nd practices of Western liberalism in the age of empire. In so doing\, it explores whether the perceived lack of liberalism among Muslims is a pro duct of Western liberalism's willful exclusion and misconceptions of Isla m or \;rooted in the Muslim religious tradition.
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Ayesha Jalal \;is the Mary Richardson Professor o f History at Tufts University where she teaches at both the History Depar tment and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She obtained her BA\, majoring in History and Political Science\, from Wellesley College\, USA \, and her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. Dr Jala l has been a fellow of Trinity College\, Cambridge (1980-84)\, Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies\, Cambridge (1984-87)\, fell ow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington\ , DC (1985-86) and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for Internation al and Area Studies (1988-90). Between 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur Fell ow. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Tufts Univers ity\, Columbia University and Harvard University. Her publications includ e \;The Sole Spokesman:Jinnah\, the Muslim League and th e Demand for Pakistan \;(Cambridge 1985 and 1994)\; \;Th e State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of D efence \;(Cambridge\, 1990) and \;Democracy and Authorit arianism in South Asia: A \;Comparative and Historical Perspective \;(Cambridge 1995). Dr Jalal has co-authored \;Modern Sout h Asia: History\, Culture and Political Economy \;(Routledge 199 8) with Sugata Bose which has been published by Oxford University Press i n India and by Sang-e-Meel in Pakistan. Her study of Muslim identity in t he subcontinent\, entitled \;Self and Sovereignty: The Muslim Ind ividual and the Community of Islam in South Asia since c.1850 \; appeared in 2000-2001 \; \;(London/New York:Routledge\, Delhi: Ox ford University Press and Lahore:Sang-e-Meel). She has also authored  \;Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia \;(Cambridge\, M.A : Harvard University Press\; Lahore: Sang-e-Meel\, 2008). She has also ed ited \;TheOxford Companion to Pakistani History 0\;(Oxford University Press 2012) and co-edited a bilingual Urdu and Engl ish volume entitled \;Manto \;(Sang-e-Meel Publications 2012). Her Lawrence Stone Lectures given at the Davis Center at Princeton University in April 2011 were published as \;The Pity of Partiti on: Manto's Life\, Times \;and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide< /em> \;(Princeton University Press\, Spring 2013). Dr. Jalal's most r ecent book is \;The Struggle for Pakistan: \;A Muslim Homelan d and Global Politics \;(Cambridge\, M.A: Harvard University Pre ss\, 2014).
UID:20180223T013000Z-282109@college.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20180111T112656Z URL:https://college.lclark.edu/live/events/282109-55th-annual-arthur-l-th rockmorton-memorial-lecture CATEGORIES:Open to the Public LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T175316Z ATTACH:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/73/width/80/height/80/cr op/1/70465_img_0266.rev.1515698689.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:282109 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/73/width/80/h eight/80/crop/1/70465_img_0266.rev.1515698689.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-COST:Free X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:Ayesha Jalal \;is the Mary Richardson Professor o f History at Tufts University where she teaches at both the History Depar tment and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. \; She will give the 55th Annual Arthur L. Throckmorton Memorial Lecture. \; The title of her talk is "The Light in Islam: Muslims and Liberalism in South Asia ." X-LIVEWHALE-TAGS:History|lecture|open to the public|scholarship|send-to-g raduate|send-to-law|send-to-undergraduate END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR