ISLAM, LOVE, AND JUSTICE:

A MESSAGE OF HOPE IN A CONFLICTED WORLD

Dr. Omid Safi

Dr. Omid Safi’s understanding of religion is shaped both by the pluralistic Sufi dimension of Islam as well as the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He is deeply committed to exploring possibilities of justice and compassion within the Islamic tradition.

Dr. Safi is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His areas of interest include Islamic mysticism, contemporary Islamic thought, and medieval Islamic history. His recent publications include The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam and Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism.

The Graduate Theological Union is the largest and most diverse partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, pursuing interreligious collaboration in teaching, research, ministry, and service. The annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture fosters interreligious and cross-cultural communication and understanding.

The late Dr. Surjit Singh was professor emeritus of Christian Philosophy at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, dean of the seminary from 1972 to 1978, and professor at the GTU from 1962 to 1988. Among his many publications are Christology and Personality and Communism, Christianity, Democracy.

Free and open to the public. Public reception at 5:30 p.m. and dessert reception immediately following lecture in the Richard S. Dinner Boardroom, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union.

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