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Borders in the Muslim world: mere lines in the sand
11th February 2008
Lines in Middle Eastern sand, drawn by civil servants in Whitehall, can not wipe out Islam’s Golden Age. People who talk about uniting the Muslim Ummah are often derided as ideologues; impractical and unrealistic. However, all it took was a few sticks of dynamite to remove the ramshackle physical barrier – officially known as the border - between Palestinian Gaza and Egypt. The subsequent free flow of people and goods – only inhibited by the size of the gap in the broken boarder - exemplified how simple, realistic and natural the concept of one Muslim Ummah really is – if the political will exists!
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Events Update
Faisal Devji: The Militant and the Mahatma
Faisal Devji, one of the world's most acclaimed theorists of militant Islam, comes to the Institute of Contemporary Arts to argue that a close reading of alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohamed's hearing transcript while in captivity in Guantanamo Bay bears comparison with Gandhi's famous trial for sedition in 1922. Both the modern Islamic militants and the mahatma, he will argue, rely upon the caliphate to re-imagine the world, and a comparison of their ideas can teach us a great deal. Faisal Devji is associate professor of history at The New School for Social Research in New York and author of Landscapes of the Jihad.
Afterwards, Devji will be in conversation with Akmal Asghar and Yahya Birt, writer and commentator on Islam. Chair: Roger Hardy, Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst, BBC World Service.
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