L’Abrahamisme entre mythes courants et enjeux - Abrahamism: Current Myths and Issues.

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
Auditorium
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

The CEU Center for Religious Studies, with the Rector’s Office, in cooperation with the L’Institut français de Budapest

invite you to join us for 

The second lecture in the Rector's Lecture Series: Comparative Approaches to Abrahamic Religions. 

A lecture in French with simultaneous interpretation into English

Abstract: Did Abraham exist or is he only a mythological figure? Given the divergence of the functions assigned to him, the question merits restatement, with the exception of the accord on him having had two sons in old age, Ishmael from Hagar followed by Isaac from Sarah. Although the first of the Biblical patriarchs, research has shown that the cycle devoted to him was relatively recent. In the three monotheistic religions he appears in the context of legend, from which are derived a number of common consequences, including some relevant to the relationship between religion and politics. Today, Abraham is used to demonstrate both commonalities and divergences.

Abdelmajid Charfi Honorary Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Mannouba, Tunis; former Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Tunis; Member of the Tunisian Academy “Beit el-Hikma.”  Among his books are Islamic Thought in Response to the Christians (in Arabic, 1986, 2005), Contributions (in Arabic, 3 vols., 1994-2011) and Revolution, Modernité, Islam (2012);  of those translated into English are Islam between Message and History (2005, 2009) and Islam and Modernity (2010).