UTOPIA500. The Western world and Islam: the dialogue is not a utopia
Lectio by Prof. Tariq Ramadan
"Il genio dell'Islam" ("The genius of Islam") is the beautiful and even provocative title of the latest book by one of the most important contemporary Muslim thinkers, Tariq Ramadan, who will be in Trento next Friday 2 December for the final event of Utopia500.
In his book and in his lectio at the Auditorium, Ramadan will deal with the most pressing issues raised today about Islam. "The Western world and Islam: the dialogue is NOT a utopia": presentation by Professor Massimo Campanini, one of the greatest Italian experts in Islamic thought. Musical prologue and epilogue by the Trio Kosmos (Jordan Angeli, Corrado Bungaro, Carlo La Manna).
Tariq Ramadan (Arabic: طارق رمضان; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss academic, philosopher and writer. He is the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar), the Université Mundiapolis (Morocco) and several other universities around world. He is also a senior research fellow at Doshisha University (Japan). He is the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), based in Doha.[3] He is a member of the UK Foreign Office Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief.[4] He was elected by Time magazine in 2000 as one of the seven religious innovators of the 21st century and in 2004 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world[5] and by Foreign Policy magazine (2005, 2006, 2008-2010, 2012-2015) as one of the top 100 most influential thinkers in the world and Global Thinkers.
organization: Servizio attività culturali della Provincia di Trento
