Pamplet Tayangan Dokumentari A Road To Mecca

9.00 am

Registration

9.15

Exhibition on Muhammad Asad [REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED]

10.00

Recitation of the Qur’an

10.10

Introductory remarks by Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa

10.20

Lecture by Prof Tariq Ramadan on the life and works of Muhammad Asad

11.00

Q & A session based on lecture

11.30

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Exhibition on the Life and Works of Muhammad Asad

MUHAMMAD ASAD

Fascinating... informative... a well-judged combo of travelogue and biopic... a fine piece of anthropology, worthy of the dedication it copies from Asad's translation of the Koran: ‘For people who think’. Variety Lively, entertaining and very topical. A most astounding perspective on multicultural identities. Der Falter A tactful and astute portrait. Kleine Zeitung Utterly fascinating. Canadian Jewish News

Muhammad Asad’s nam name figures prominently on the roll of 20th-century 20th-cen English-language Muslim thinkers. Born as Leopold Weiss into a Polish family of strong stron Jewish background, he was a gifted young writer w and adventurous traveler who journeyed to the East to discover Islam. The result of his travels is a highly charged and brilliantly written autobiography, a The Road to Mecca. He found the Muslim world an unexpected tonic: its co complexities, temperament and sense of spiritual security se intrigued him. Over the decades that follow followed, he became the most articulate and passionate passionat of Muslim scholars and writers, devoted to the revival of Islam and its reconciliation with the modern world.

TARIQ RAMADAN, the son of Said Ramadan and grandson of Egypt's Muslim leader Hassan al-Banna, is one of the most well-known Muslim academics and speakers in contemporary Europe. Born in Switzerland, his views on Islam reflect a reformist perspective. He is a prominent intellectual-activist in Europe and America and represents a new generation of Islamic reformers. He is a Professor of Islamic Studies and currently teaching in the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University. He

About the Speakerr

is the President of European Muslim Network based in Brussels and author of In the Footsteps of the Prophet, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, To Be a European Muslim and Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity. His latest books are Radical Reform, Islamic Ethics and Liberation (2008) and What I Believe (2009).