“From Xenophobia & Fear to Collaboration & Friendship”
Virtus lectures pique our learning in vital and risky issues for our society; oppression, bullying, abuse, privilege, rank, altered states.
Sheikh Shomali
Now rescheduled for a later date
Virtus Lectures 2017-2018 “Spirituality as Social Activism”
PUBLIC LECTURES AT EALING ABBEY
TUESDAY / FRIDAY EVENINGS AT 7.30pm
Dr Shomali’s Virtus lecture
Dr. Mohammad Ali Shomali
Dr. Mohammad Ali Shomali is a graduate of the Islamic Seminaries of Qum. He has also both a BA and an MA in Western Philosophy from the University of Tehran. He has earned his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Manchester. His publications include: Self-Knowledge (1996 & 2006, also translated into Malay, Spanish and Kiswahili), Ethical Relativism: An Analysis of the Foundations of Morality (2001, also translated into Malay), Shi‘a Islam: Origins, Faith & Practices (2003 & 2010; also translated into Spanish & Swedish), Principles of Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Methodology of Fiqh (2006). He is a co-editor of Catholics & Shi’a in Dialogue: Studies in Theology & Spirituality (2004), Catholic-Shi’a Engagement: Reason & Faith in Theory and Practice (2006) and A Catholic-Shi‘a Dialogue: Ethics in Today’s Society (2008).
He is currently the resident Imam and director of Islamic Centre of England.
unemployed £0, employed £10, concessions £5
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Virtus lectures pique our learning in vital and risky issues for our society; oppression, bullying, abuse, privilege, rank, altered states.
The lectures take place on a monthly basis from October to June at 7.30pm in the Abbey Church.
published 25 October 2017 JL