Abbasid Free Thinking and the Critique of Religion

Date:

Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

The Religious Studies Program

cordially invites you to
a lecture by

Aziz Al-Azmeh

(CEU School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies)

Abbasid Free Thinking and the Critique of Religion

Thursday,
November 22, 2012

5:30 PM

CEU, Nádor u. 9
Popper Room

Reception to follow

Abstract
This lecture will survey the flowering of the critique of religions in the Abbasid era in both its social and philosophical aspects. It will suggest antique and late antique genealogies and connections, as well as various lines of transmission to Europe in the Age of Reason.

Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh (License-es-Lettres, Beirut, M.A., Tubingen, D. Phil., Oxford) is University Professor in the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. He has taught and lectured extensively at universities and other institutions throughout Europe, North America, the Arab World, and south and east Asia, and is a board member of a number of institutions and academic journals. Among his books in English are Ibn Khaldun, Islams and Modernities, Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies, The Times of History, Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities and, most recently, Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).

(License-es-Lettres, Beirut, M.A., Tubingen, D. Phil., Oxford) is University Professor in the School of etc. He has taught and lectured extensively at universities and other institutions throughout Europe,North America, the Arab World, and south and east Asia, and is a board member of a number of institutions and academic journals. Among his books in English are Ibn Khaldun, Islams and Modernities, Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies, The Times of History, Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities and, most recently, Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).