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Post-Reading: Islamic Civilisation Book Club - Book 5 (Faith)
5. Preservation of Faith
The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament by Wael Hallaq
IN-STORE EVENT
Post-Reading of Book 5 of
The Islamic Civilisation Book Club 2023
Date: 07 January 2024, Sunday
Time: 10:30 am Singapore
Venue: Reading Loft (Level 2, stairs only)The Guest Scholar: Asst Prof Walid Jumblatt
No registration required
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About Walid Jumblatt
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah received his PhD under a Joint Degree Program between National University of Singapore (NUS) and King’s College, London. He works on state-Islam relations, and political parties and elections, with particular focus on Singapore and Malaysia. He has published articles in internationally peer-reviewed journals such as Democratization, International Political Science Review, Government and Opposition, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asian Survey, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Journal of Church and State, among others. His research interests include state-religion relations, political parties and elections, political Islam, and Southeast Asian politics.
About the Book Club
The book club is chaired by Dr Md Mubarak Habib Md. For some subjects and texts, there will be guest chairs. For participants in the book club, the pace of reading is one book in about 5 weeks. The book club is open to everyone.
The book club is not a class, it’s a purposeful conversation amongst readers who are all reading the same book. All books for the book club are available at Wardah Books.
Click here to find out more about the Islamic Civilisation Book Club as well as this year's selection of books.
Post-reading Session
The chair leads a discussion among participants. For this session, the discussion themes are as follows:
- How is Islamic governance incongruent with the modern state?
- What makes the modern state what it is?
- What is modernity (with reference to statehood)?