CSI Monday Majilis

We’d like to invite you to the next online Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter, opening the series in the new academic year.
Monday Majlis on the 16th of October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Youshaa Patel, How to Think about Muslim Difference

Registration is required. Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pfu2grTIpGtZzfCt5L23MhLjcdcGRXVbj   

Abstract
Drawing on his recently published book (The Muslim Difference, Yale 2022), Youshaa Patel explores the vexing religious discourse of tashabbuh—Muslim imitation of others—a discourse that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life, and was as crucial to the construction of Muslim identity and alterity during Islam's formative period as it is today. This lecture situates this discourse on Muslim difference within Islamic scripture and tradition, casting new light on contemporary debates in the West over visible expressions of Islam, from headscarves and beards to minarets and mosques. 
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300248968/the-muslim-difference/#:~:text=Youshaa%20Patel%20explores%20why%20the,influential%20doctrine%20against%20imitation%20that

Bio
Youshaa Patel is associate professor of Religious Studies at Lafayette College (Easton, PA USA), and author of The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present (Yale University Press 2022).  His scholarship explores Islamic scripture and tradition, with a focus on how Islam has shaped—and been shaped—by Muslim interfaith encounters in the Middle East and beyond. His work has been supported by grants from Mellon, Fulbright, and the American Institute of Yemeni Studies, and includes extended research stays in India, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria where he studied the Islamic tradition with several of its modern-day custodians. Professor Patel is currently the Abdul Aziz Al-Mutawa visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, an independent centre of the University of Oxford.
https://twitter.com/dryoushaapatel
https://lafayette.academia.edu/YoushaaPatel
In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions : )
We’ll be happy to welcome you!
Istvan