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The "Rethinking Islamic Reform" Conference is a chance to gather with government officials, academics and media personalities from across Europe to hear two of the World's foremost Muslim intellectuals write a new and unprecedented chapter in the ever polemical topic of reform in Islam.

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HUFFINGTON POST: Rethinking Islamic Reform - Finding Tough Answers the Hard Way
By Abbas Barzegar
May 26, 2010

"Oxford [Islamic Society]'s conversation between Tariq Ramadan and Hamza Yusuf's is one of the first major steps taken by a western institution to move beyond the stagnant dichotomies that have dominated the perennial "clash of civilizations" issue."

"Rethinking Islamic Reform also marks a growing realization that genuine and viable change in Muslim society will not emerge from goodhearted liberals or renegade clerics who would like to revive the spirit of dead poets and sages of centuries of Muslim past to save the day.  Instead, it will grow out of a natural conversation between the traditionally trained scholars of Islam (ulama) and the activist minded modern intellectuals (mufakkirun) that places Muslim pragmatism and Islamic viability at the center."

Full Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abbas-barzegar/rethinking-islamic-reform_b_590433.html

BBC NEWSHOUR: Leading Scholars to address "Islamic Reform" in Oxford
May 26, 2010

Owen Bennett-Jones interviews Hamza Yusuf

Full Audio [4:47]: Click Here