Hasan Pandor - with Saiyyidah
This week’s guest is Hasan Pandor.
Hasan did some study at an Islamic seminary in the UK and then graduated with a degree in English Language and Linguistics. He spent a long time travelling before he returned to the UK and started to study at soas. He has been involved in some projects such as the Re/presenting Islam on Campus project, the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) and the Influencing the Corridors of Power project and is working on research to explore everyday practices of free speech and ways to move beyond racialised and religious stereotypes.
Book - Toward a Methodology of Encounters: Opening to Complexity in Qualitative Research, Kate McCoy - considers how poststructural orientations to thinking about epistemology and ontology have been enriched by feminist materialist readings of quantum physics
Professor Alison Scott-Baumann
Book - Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism, by Alison Scott-Baumann, Simon Perfect -Freedom of speech and extremism in university campuses are major sources of debate and moral panic in the United Kingdom today. In 2018, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament undertook an inquiry into freedom of speech on campus.
The Oxford Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies - bringing Muslims and Christians together to relate honestly, think rigorously, and explore our respective traditions and religious texts, through teaching and research, discussion and public education.
Book - RESULTS The Art and Science of Getting It Done, Saiyyidah Zaidi - reveals a revolutionary method and process so that you can align your daily activities with your own ultimate vision.
Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project - The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) led by Professor Dr Alison Scott-Baumann at SOAS University of London aims to build bridges between Darul Ulooms/ Muslim seminaries and mainstream universities. It has developed a toolkit for both types of institutions, and it seeks to continue offering support and strategic guidance to both.
Video - The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project Launch
Podcast - Conversations in Practical Theology - Discussions on practical theology from a variety of religious traditions.
Video - Do Atheists believe in God after all?
Video - Riding the Tiger of Modernity
Book - Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge - Wael B. Hallaq reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism in order to deploy it for rethinking the foundations of the modern project.
Video - The Divine Test of Life
