Islamic Feminism: Tradition, Authority, and Hermeneutics

Activities

Activities per year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2018

• 54 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
• 4 Oral presentation
• 2 Public Talks
• 2 Peer review of manuscripts
• 5 More
  • 2 Opponent of doctoral dissertation
  • 2 Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
  • 1 Invited talk

Activities per year

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• Building Egalitarian Ethics and Jurisprudence of Muslim Marriages: A Workshop co-organized By University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology; SOAS, University of London, Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL); and Musawah, a Knowledge Building Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  12 May 2018 → 13 May 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Reading Historical and Religious Texts from a Feminist Perspective

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Attendee)

  10 Jan 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Building Egalitarian Ethics and Jurisprudence of Muslim Marriages, second (closed) workshop, November 9-10, 2018, University of Helsinki, co-organized with Islamic Studies Institute at University of Toronto, Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Musawah, global network of scholars and activists

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  9 Nov 2018 → 10 Nov 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Reforming Islamic Family Law in Egypt: Navigating Governance and Citizenship, presented at IX International Conference of the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, June 6, 2018, University of Helsinki

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  6 Jun 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'What Can Islamic Feminism Offer towards Equality and Inclusivity?' presented at Finnish-Indonesian Public Lectures, organized by Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, in collaboration with Indonesian Embassy in Finland and Indonesia-Finland Interfaith and Intermedia Dialogue, September 18, 2018

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  18 Sep 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Revisiting Conflict, Security, and Religion: Transnational Somali Families, guest lecture in the course 'Gender, Conflicts and Security in a Globalised World, April 24, 2018

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  24 Apr 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Quranic Hermeneutics: Reading the Text for Gender, Guest Lecture by Amina Wadud

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  12 Apr 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Islamic Feminism: Knowledge Building and Movement Building, a Seminar with Amina Wadud

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Chair)

  13 Apr 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Islamic Interpretive Tradition in the Contemporary World: Ethics and Hermeneutics, an international seminar, organized by Academy of Finland project 'Islamic Feminism: Tradition, Authority, and Hermeneutics,' Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, November 8, 2018

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Chair)

  8 Nov 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Tunisia and Democratization: A Roundtable Organized By DEMO Finland and Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Took part as participant/discussant)

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (New classification)

  12 Sep 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• The Emergence of Hadith as Authority of Knowledge, 4th/10th-8th-14th Century

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Attendee)

  11 Jan 2018

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Roundtable with Azhar Religious Scholars: New Directions towards Equality and Justice: Scholarship and Activism in the Muslim World

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  5 Apr 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Book Launch Seminar: The Arabic Translation of Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition, edited by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, and Jana Rumminger:

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  6 Apr 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion, and Changee

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair of organizing committee)

  25 Apr 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Qiwamah and Wilayah in Islamic Legal Tradition and Women's Lived Realities, presented at 'Gender Equality in the Middle East: Possibilities and Challenges,' Development Talks Meeting, organized by SIDA and UNWomen, October 26, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  26 Oct 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Understanding Qiwamah and Wilayah through the Life Stories of Muslim Women presented at the Roundtable with Azhar Religious Scholars: New Directions towards Equality and Justice: Scholarship and Activism in the Muslim World

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  5 Apr 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Studying Lived Religion: Methodological Possibilities and Challenges,' a panel co-organized and chaired with Rita Sobczyk, EASR 2016: Relocating Religion, July 1, 2016, University of Helsinki

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair of organizing committee)

  1 Jul 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• ‘Muslim Religiosit(ies): Reflections from Ethnographic Research in Finland,’ presented at the Seminar with Students of Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, organized by Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, June 1, 2016

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  1 Jun 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Religion and Social Theory,' a panel chaired at EASR 2016: Relocating Religion

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  28 Jun 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• European Association for Study of Religion (2016) Annual Conference: Relocating Religion

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  28 Jun 2016 → 1 Jul 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Muslims in Modern Contexts,' panel chaired at EASR 2016: Relocating Religion

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  29 Jun 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Studying Lived Religion: Methodological Possibilities and Challenges,' a panel co-organized and chaired with Rita Sobczyk, EASR 2016: Relocating Religion

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  1 Jul 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Revisiting Religious Tradition and Islamic Feminism: A Case Study from Egypt,' presented at EASR 2016: Relocating Religion, June 29, 2016, University of Helsinki

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  29 Jun 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Rigorous Research and Social Justice: Reflections on Islamic Family Law Reform and Islamic Feminism, presentation given in Prof. Lynn Welchman's class on 'Gender and Human Rights in the MENA Region, CIMEL, SOAS, London, November 23, 2016'

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  23 Nov 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Muslim Religiosities: Reflections from Ethnographic Research in Finland, presented at the Seminar with Students of Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, June 1, 2016, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  1 Jun 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Lived Religion and Diasporic Somali Muslims in Finland and Canada: Methodological Reflections,' co-presented (with Marja Tiilikainen) at EASR 2016: Relocating Religion, July 1, 2016, University of Helsinki

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  1 Jul 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• 'Revisiting Religious Tradition and Islamic Feminism: A Case Study from Egypt,' presented at EASR 2016: Relocating Religion

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  30 Jun 2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Gender, Ethics, and Knowledge in Islamic Interpretive Tradition, presented at Religion, Gender, and Migration: Religious Study Day

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  20 Feb 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Hermeneutics, Islamic Feminist Tafsir, and Quranic Ethics (co-presented with Omaima Abou-Bakr from Cairo University) at IAHR World Congress 2015 in Erfurt

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  27 Aug 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Building Egalitarian Jurisprudence of Muslim Marriage

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  8 Mar 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Women and Public Sphere: A Contemporary Islamic Vision

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  27 Apr 2015 → 29 Apr 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Religion, Gender, and Migration: Religious Studies Day

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  20 Feb 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Muslim Migrants in Finland: On-going Research

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Member of organizing committee)

  19 Feb 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Women, Agency, and Islamic Religious Institutions in Indonesia, seminar organized and hosted by the Academy of Finland Project 'Islamic Feminism: Tradition, Authority, and Hermeneutics'

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  9 Nov 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Modern Diasporas, Citizenship, and Race - Monthly Seminar Series (Transnational Muslim Marriages: Wellbeing, Law and Gender & Islamic Feminism: Tradition, Authority, and Hermeneutics)

  Sanna Mustasaari (Chair)

  17 Nov 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Authority

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  7 Mar 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Led workshop with PhD students at Tvarminne Seminar 2015: 'Religion and Everyday Life'

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  19 Nov 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Islam and Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  15 Mar 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Sexuality in Islamic Texts and Muslim Contexts, guest lecture presented in the course 'Religion and Sex,' Faculty of Theology, Study of Religions Unit, University of Helsinki

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  16 Nov 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion, and Change, a panel co-organized (with Omaima Abou-Bakr) at IAHR World Congress 2015, Erfut, Germany

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (New classification)

  27 Aug 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Quranic Hermeneutics and Islamic Feminism, a videotyped interview with Outi Lehtipuu, for the course 'The Role of Women in Religious Communities and Texts,' for the Masters Program 'Religious Roots of Europe' University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  1 Oct 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Religious Traditions, Lived Religions: Connections and Tensions

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Chair)

  3 Dec 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Engaging with Islamic Textual Tradition: Islamic Feminism and Gender Reform in Egypt, presented at British Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Changing Society)

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  25 Apr 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Muslim Feminist Engagements with Islamic Textual Tradition: Some Reflections, presented at Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Groningen, the Netherlands

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  13 May 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Beyond 2015: Pathways to a Gender Just World

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  29 May 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Egyptian Islamic Feminism and the New Politics of Social Transformation, presented at Middle East Studies Association 48th Annual Meeting

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  25 Nov 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Reforming Law and Religious Knowledge: Women, Gender, and Islamic Interpretive Tradition, Guest Lecture at the course 'World Religions' by Prof. Tuula Sakaranaho in the MA program 'Religion, Conflict, and Dialogue, 'Faculty of Theology, Autumn 2014

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  4 Nov 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Religious Traditions, Lived Religions: Connections and Tensions

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  3 Dec 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Muslim Feminist Engagements with Islamic Tradition: Reflections from Egypt, presented at Concord, Conflict and Co-existance: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa, Abo Akademi University, Turku

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  5 Jun 2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

• Feminist and Islamic Perspectives: New Horizons of Knowledge and Reform (Workshop and Debates on the occassion of the book launch)

  Mulki Al-Sharmani (Speaker: Presenter)

  14 Nov 2013

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars