Master of the Art of Debate: A Seminar on Imam Jawad
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Dr Nebil Husayn as we hold a learning circle entitled “Master of the Art of Debate: A Seminar on Imam Jawad“.
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Dr Nebil Husayn as we hold a learning circle entitled “Master of the Art of Debate: A Seminar on Imam Jawad“.
Abstract:
From the earliest generations in Islamic history until today, an enduring subject of debate between Muslims continues to be the reliability of hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. How can one distinguish the authentic from the fabricated? It has become tradition to judge hadith reports by their chains of transmission, but some early Muslims rejected this method as unreliable. This discussion will consider some alternative methods that scholars have used to evaluate hadith and pay special attention to a debate about the merits of Abu Bakr and Umar that took place between the famous jurist Yahya b. Aktham and Imam al-Jawad in the royal court of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun.
Participants in this seminar will have the opportunity to closely study and discuss this debate, newly translated from the Arabic, and made available in the English language for the first time. This debate not only encourages us to reconsider how we understand hadith, but also provides us with a glimpse of the brilliance of Imam al-Jawad and his mastery of the art of debate.
This programme will be face to face and streamed online.
We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
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Mahfil Ali
39 Gloucester Road, North Harrow
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Speaker
Nebil Husayn is a specialist in the field of Islamic studies. His research explores authoritarianism in the Middle East, debates on the caliphate, and the development of Islamic thought. Husayn also serves as a Senior Research Advisor for Mipsterz, an arts and culture collective curating, enabling, and amplifying artists of marginalized backgrounds through illustration, film, and music. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award and the University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities. Husayn obtained his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University. He is the author of Opposing the Imam (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which examines the history of early Muslims who were hostile to Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, and his descendants.
Husayn enjoys teaching a variety of courses and topics. They include the legacy of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers of New York (AAS 390/REL 372), early Islamic history (REL 271), gender (GSS 350/REL 371), Muslim spirituality and geopolitics (REL 370), atheism, and faith-based claims that invite skepticism (REL 102 and REL 104).
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