Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, has launched a scholarly website and blog that takes challenging concepts from his various publications since the 1990s and offers them for global public debate.
The blog calls for debates on Islam, the state, and politics in the local languages of Islamic societies. As an online resource, An-Na’im suggests, this discussion of human rights can be accessed in places his books would never be allowed. “I’m challenging the very idea of the Islamic state,” An-Na’im says. “I’m turning the fundamentalist claim upside down. I used to think that secularism was hostile to religion. Now, I have come to appreciate that it doesn’t have to be.”
Join the scholarly debate by visiting The Future of Sharia Blog at scholarblogs.emory.edu/aannaim.
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