How the Iranian Revolution Secularized Islam : Towards a New Conception of Secularism

What : How the Iranian Revolution Secularized Islam : Towards a New Conception of Secularism

Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP) along with the Iranian Student Alliance in America (ISAA) and the Institute of International Studies proudly present a lecture on How the Iranian Revolution Secularized Islam.

Who : Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who specializes in transnational and global histories in the Middle Eastern postcolonial context. He studies social movements and intellectual articulations of Islamic conceptions of modernity.

His forthcoming book, entitled Islam and Dissent in Post revolutionary Iran: Abdolkarim Soroush and the Religious Foundations of Political Reform, is due to be released by I. B. Tauris in Fall 2008.

When : Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 5 p.m.

Where : 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

No admission charge and open to the public

ASUC sponsored and wheelchair accessible

Sponsored by the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP)

Co-sponsored by the Iranian Student Alliance in America (ISAA) and the Institute of International Studies