Pluralism or Unitarianism?

React on prof. Abu Zayd's lecture!

Tags: Promoting Pluralism
Additional tags: Qu'ran

Professor Nasr Abu Zayd gave his lecture entitled "Pluralism or Unitarianism? Perspectives from the Qur’an" on the 2nd of December 2008, in The Hague.

Central question addressed in this lecture was to what extent the Qur’anic worldview endorses or inhibits Pluralism. Professor Abu Zayd presented and analysed the existing tension and contradictions in the Qur’an from a historical perspective.

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Professor Nasr Abu Zayd gave his lecture entitled "Pluralism or Unitarianism? Perspectives from the Qur’an" on the 2nd of December 2008, in The Hague.

He discussed the following issues:

• Introduction: the Qur'an as the basic foundational source of Islamic knowledge
• The Structure of the Qur'an: the chronological order and the present order in the mushaf
• The tension in the Qur'anic worldviews (e.g. theological, philosophical and legal)
• The theo-legal foundation of pluralism
• The theo-legal foundation of unitarianism
• Historical contextualization to understand the tension
• A roposed solution for humanistic hermeneutics

Mr. Halim el Madkouri then reacted by presenting his ideas about pluralism in the Dutch society, and the role of religion in the public domain.

Would you also like to comment on the lecture? What did you think of his lecture and what is your interpretation of the Qu'ran abour pluralism? What is your opinion of pluralism in society?

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