Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford

MECO Annual Conference in association with the OXFORD CENTRE FOR BRITISH ISLAM ISLAM AND FEMINISM Text, Tradition and Theology WOLFSON COLLEGE - OXFORD UNIVERSITY Oxford University, OX2 6UD Click here for a map Friday – Saturday 17th - 18th October 2008 Programme
DAY I – FRIDAY, 17th OCTOBER 2008
1:00 pm	FRIDAY CONGREGATIONAL PRAYERS (JUMU’AH) Sermon (khutbah) presented and prayers led by Professor Amina Wadud at the Oxford Centre, 333 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7PL (Click here for a map) Subject: The Significance of Salah: The Purpose of Prayers
2:00 – 3:00 pm	After Prayers Reception
4:00 – 5:00 pm	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND AFTERNOON TEA at Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD
5:00 – 7:00 pm	PANEL I: THE QUR’AN AND WOMEN
	1.	Professor Amina Wadud – Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Qur’an, Gender and Justice
	2.	Dr Laleh Bakhtiar – Director of the Institute of Traditional Psychology and In-House Scholar at Kazi Publications, Chicago, USA Qu’ranic Rights of Women: Myth and Reality
	3.	Senor Abdennur Prado – Founder and president of the Catalan Islamic Council, Barcelona, Spain Qur’anic Feminism: The Makers of Textual Meaning
7:30 – 9:30 pm	DINNER AND KEYNOTE SPEECH Professor Margot Badran, Georgetown University Islamic Feminism Fast-Forward
DAY II – SATURDAY, 18th OCTOBER 2008
8:30 – 9:30 am	BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
9:30 – 11:30 am	PANEL II: WOMEN IN THE AHADITH
	1.	Dr Raja Rhouni – Mohammad V University of Rabat, Morocco Rethinking the Revelation: Islamic Feminists Neo-Mu’tazilites?
	2.	Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood – Former Head of Religious Studies and Author Misogynism and Patriarchy in mainstream Prophetic Traditions (Ahadith)
	3.	Rawand Othman – University of Birmingham Women in Nahj al-Balaghah: The Shi’ah perspective of females in Religious Text
11:30 am – 12:00 noon	MORNING COFFEE AND BISCUITS
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	PANEL III: THE SHARI’AH (ISLAMIC LAW) AND WOMEN
	1.	Professor Qudsia Mirza, University of East London and Texas, USA Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence: The Role of Women
	2.	Mufti Soheib Bencheikh – Former Grand Mufti of Marseille, France The Spirit of the Shari'ah: The Education and Erudition of Muslim women
	3.	Lily Zakiyah Munir – University of Jakarta, Indonesia Gender Discrimination in classical Islamic Law
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	MIDDAY PRAYERS AND LUNCH
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Professor Aminah Wadud – QUR’AN, REFORM AND INTERPRETATION
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm	AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm	PANEL IV: CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WOMEN AND ISLAMIC THEOLOGY
	1.	Erica Timoney, New Muslims Project, Islamic Foundation, Leicester Women’s access to mosques in the United Kingdom
	2.	Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Writer, Broadcaster and Columnist for the Independent Muslim women in times of change and conservatism
	3.	Dr Haifa Jawad, University of Birmingham Understanding Islamic Feminism
6:30 – 7:00 pm	EVENING PRAYERS
7:00 – 9:00 pm	DINNER AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION with Professors Amina Wadud, Margot Badran, Qudsia Mirza, Raja Rhouni, Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, Rawand Othman, Zohra Moosa, Erica Timoney ISLAMIC FEMINISM – THE WAY FORWARD (THE SHARI’AH* AHEAD)*
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