The Annual York-Noor Lecture Series 2007-2008

presents

Muslim Minorities: Beyond an Existence in the Belly of the Beast

Lecture by Dr. Farid Esack, Harvard Divinity School

Date: Sunday April 6, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: $5

Professor Farid Esack is a South African Muslim theologian who cut his teeth in the South African struggle for liberation. He studied in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Germany and is the author of Qu’ran, Liberation and Pluralism, On Being a Muslim: An Introduction to the Qu’ran, and Islam, HIV & AIDS – Reflections Based on Compassion, Responsibility, and Justice.

He has published on Islam, Gender, Liberation Theology, Interfaith Relations, and Qur’anic Hermeneutics. Professor Esack served as a Commissioner for Gender Equality South African and has taught at the Universities of Western Cape, and Hamburg, the College of William & Mary and Union Theological Seminary (New York) and at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is currently the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Visiting Professor of Contemporary Islam at Harvard University.