In this talk, Professor Abdel-Haleem will describe some details of why and how he approached the task of translating the Qur’an into English. He will list some criteria for what makes a good translation. He will discuss his goals, problems, strategies and main sources with emphasis on the importance of context and stylistic and rhetorical features of the text of the Qur’an and how these affect the translation.
Kristin Aune is Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University. She has published widely on religion in higher education, and religion and gender, and conducted many externally funded research projects on these topics.
We are all familiar, these days, with difficult environmental problems. But
what does the study of environmental ethics bring to the discussion? The field
tends to discuss two kinds of problems. One is concerned with the unintended
consequences of our actions and the problem that we may often discover ourselves
to have been interacting with complex systems about the operations of which
we may know little.
A Talk by Professor Mona Siddiqui Friday 31 January 2025
A Talk by Dr Ali Hadawi Thursday 24 October 2024
