Farid Esack
"Today, I want to talk about ideas of working creatively towards justice, and about how this creativity is really also a recreation and internal recreation of the self. . . I come from, and I cut my teeth in, the South African liberation struggle. I am proud of my own background, and of the role that I played in our country’s liberation struggle, along with thousands and thousands of others. For many people, that liberation struggle had come to personify a successful struggle. But the idea of that liberation struggle as a successful struggle, (the owning of the world of that struggle as a successful struggle) and the internal problems that we see, in some ways reflect the larger issue that we have with embracing ideas of change, ideas of forgiveness."
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Farid Esack, Ph.D. is William Henry Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School for 2006-07 academic year. He is a South African Muslim theologian who completed the Darsi Nizami, the traditional Islamic Studies program, in madrassahs in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, England. He has published widely on Islam, gender, liberation theology, interfaith relations, religion and identity, and Qur'anic hermeneutics.
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