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<b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class="Apple-style-span">The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN)</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class="Apple-style-span">
is pleased to announce a </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class="Apple-style-span">Public Lecture</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class="Apple-style-span">
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</span><font size="+0"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 24px" class="Apple-style-span">Amina Wadud</span></font></b></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Cambria"><font size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#cccccc"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal" class="Apple-style-span">Visiting
scholar at the University of Melbourne</span></font><br>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 24px" class="Apple-style-span">“Islam and Gender Reform”</span></font><br>
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</font></span><font size="+0"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" face="Helvetica"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class="Apple-style-span">Wednesday, 24 February<br>
6 for 6.30 pm (Drinks from 6 pm)<br>
UTS Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.11 (enter via main tower entrance)<br>
Free Lecture</span></font></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Cambria"><font size="+0"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" face="Helvetica"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class="Apple-style-span"><strong>Abstract:<br>
</strong>By the beginning of the 21st century Muslim women reached a critical mass, participating in all levels of social political activity and speaking for themselves in a wide range of matters, religious, spiritual, and intellectual. There are distinctive
voices amongst these speakers but all with the single mandate, to participate fully in what it means to be Muslim, what it means to be a servant of Allah and especially in self definining their own identity. This self recognized identity takes many forms in
context as diverse as European Muslim minorities and established Muslim majority nation-states. This lecture will provide some of the background to these developments, and compare the perspectives of the various players, from Muslim secularists, Islamists,
Muslim feminists and Islamic feminists. It will present some of the competing arguments to consider their relationship to each other and how they build upon Islam itself as the means for Muslim women’s liberation and equality.<br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Helvetica"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span">About Amina Wadud:</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Helvetica"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal" class="Apple-style-span">Professor Amina Wadud is a visiting scholar at University of Melbourne teaching and intensive course on Islam, Gender and
Reform. She has been one of the lead intellectuals in Islamic gender reform on the basis of her gender inclusive analysis of the sacred text and her combining scholarship and activism. She has traveled to more than 40 countries with her scholarly works translated
into at least 10 languages. She has retired from full time academic in order to travel more and to devote more time to consultation on gender issues in Islam and human rights.</span></font></div>
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</span></font><a href="https://webmail.adsroot.uts.edu.au/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class="Apple-style-span">Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class="Apple-style-span"><br>
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<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class="Apple-style-span"><i>See you there!</i></span></font></span></span></font></div>
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<div>Cornelia Betzler</div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px">Project Officer I Indian Ocean & South Asia Research Network</div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences </div>
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