The Centre for Abrahamic Religions, a new initiative at Huron University College, will hold its inaugural lecture on Tuesday (March 31) at 4 p.m. in the Kingsmill Room.
This event is co-sponsored by the Muslim Students Association of The University of Western Ontario. The lecture titled “Reading the Qu’ran in the University” will be given by Dr. Jasser Auda.
Auda is the founding director of Al-Maqasid Research Centre in the Philosophy of Islamic Law (Markaz Dirasat Maqasid al-Shariah al-Islamiyyah) at the Al-Furqan Foundation in London, England. He is also a founding member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, based in Dublin.
Auda is a member of many UK-based organizations such as the Board of Trustees of the Global Civilizations Study Centre, the Executive Board of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, the Academic Council of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, and the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism.
He is a visiting lecturer to a number of academic institutes in the UK, Canada, Egypt, and India and is a fellow of the International Institute of Advanced Systems Research in Canada.
Auda has served as an Imam in Egypt and Canada, and has developed a multi-disciplinary academic background through writing two PhD theses on the Philosophy of Islamic Law, and Systems Analysis and Design, at the University of Wales (UK), and the University of Waterloo, respectively.
His latest book in Arabic (and Urdu) is Fiqh al-Maqasid, and in English is Maqasid al-Shariah as Philosophy of Islamic Law: A Systems Approach, both published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in 2007.