Science and Islam: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

Science and Islam: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality is the third event in the groundbreaking series exploring the intersections and divergences of faith and reason. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 24^th at 6:00 p.m. at the George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs.

The Keynote Speaker for Science and Islam: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, Dr. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, is a MIT educated professor of nuclear and high energy physics and teaches at Quaid-e-Azam University and has been awared the Baker Award for Electronics and the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics, and is considered one of the 100 most influential global thinkers in 2011. The Moderator for Science and Islam is George Washington’s own Dr. Muhammad H. Faghfoory. A professor of Islamic Studies, he teaches a variety of subjects including Islam, Sufism, and Islamic Philosophy and Theology. He received his masters degree in history and Middle East studies from the University of Illinois, and a PhD in political science and Middle East studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Faghfoory has written, translated, and edited nine books, numerous book chapters, articles, and book reviews. He is a widely published academic who has lectured extensively about interfaith dialogue. The Panelists for Science and Islam include Dr. Asad Q. Ahmed, an Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley who has published numerous articles in the fields of Islamic rationalism, philosophy, logic, and theology, as well as Dr. Omar Sultan Haque, an instructor and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, who is also a co-director of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. Numerous media outlets including the Atlantic Monthly, BBC, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and the Washington Post have covered Dr. Haque’s research.

For more information, please see http://www.aicongress.org/science-islam/upcoming-events/ and please do not forget to RSVP at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5851575219