Taj hargey biography
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The Durban University of Technology invites members of the media and the public to a public talk on Lessons of leadership from history: History not Historiconics by Professor Taj Hargey.
The lecture will be held at the University’s Hotel School Conference Centre on the Ritson Campus on Saturday, 05 March 2015 at 11h00.
Prof Hargey is a distinguished Oxford academic specialist on Islam and the Middle East. His scholarly expertise incorporates the study of African history, comparative religion, interfaith relations and a contemporary analysis of the Muslim diaspora in the West. For this scholastic achievement, he was the recipient of a merit bursary to undertake a postgraduate study in Egypt.
Following the acquisition of his Master’s degree in Islamic Studies, he was awarded a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University, becoming the first Muslim from South Africa to be awarded a doctoral degree from this renowned seat of learning. Thereafter, he held several academic ap
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Open Temple[1] – An attempt by Taj Hargey[2] to attack traditional Islam in the guise of liberalism and pluralism by Irshaad Sedick[3]
This paper is an academic attempt to shed light on recent events initiated and publicised by Taj Hargey and his Open Mosque. I will explore what the said Open Mosque is about and who its founder Taj Hargey is. The recent publicly held radio interviews and internet material has sparked debate in the public and this paper will explore why. Lastly the public has been calling for a response by the scholars to these events and a solution to address their concerns and this will also be attempted.
Introduction
Several public advertisements have recently surfaced, informing the public of an ‘open mosque’. The concept, according to the mosque’s director, Taj Hargey, is his own brain-child which he long dreamed of and now realised with the help of a few others (he did not specify).[4]
Hargey’s mosque is scheduled to open
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Battle of Ideas
Dr Taj Hargey is an Oxford-educated historian and theologian specialising in African, Islamic and mittpunkt East Studies in the United States and Britain. Aside from this primary academic focus, Dr Hargey also promotes an enlightened and egalitarian Islam. He is well-known for advancing fruitful interfaith dialogue between the Abrahamic religions. Currently, he fryst vatten the rektor of the new scholarly think tank and research academy, the Oxford Institute for British Islam.
Prior to this landmark project, Dr Hargey established the trailblazing Open Mosque in Cape Town, his birthplace. This is the most forward-looking and progressive Islamic house of worship in South Africa, boldly championing gender equality, non-sectarianism, philosophical tolerance, ideological debate and inter-religious harmony. In view of Dr Hargey’s visionary perspectives and intrepid scholarship relating to Islam, Muslims and cross-community relations in both the UK and South Africa, his articles appe