Trial lecture - time and place
Trial lecture will take place on june 15 from 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM in auditorium U40.
The trial lecture is open to the public.
Adjudication committee
- Lecturer Mohammed Hashas, Luiss University of Rome (first opponent)
- Postdoc Saida Mirsadri, University of Paderborn (second opponent)
- Associate professor Robyn Elizabeth Boeré, University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology (committee administrator)
Chair of defence
Dean of Studies and Education Sivert Angel, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo
Supervisors
Abstract
This doctoral dissertation sets out to undertake a research on the Muslim philosopher Muhammad Iqbal`s philosophico-theological interpretation of Islam, as expounded by him in his magnum opus The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. I propose to examine Muhammad Iqbal`s concept of Islam through a perspective called “process theory”. It is a theoretical framework, which emphasizes the categories of process/dynamism over static being, interdependence over independence, freedom and creativity over determinism and theological fatalism, panentheistic concept of God over pantheistic or classical theistic concept of God. I will in specific examine the central elements in Muhammad Iqbal`s reinterpretation of Islam, such as the concept of God, the human selfhood, and his cosmology of perpetual emergence. And, furthermore, how it relates to the topical issues of (1) freedom and (pre)determinism in Islam and (2) the growing interest in a theologically informed and inspired model of stewardship, the latter in dialogue with the process-oriented eco-theological work of the Christian process philosopher and theologian John B. Cobb Jr.