Searching for Islamic Ethical Agency in Post-Apartheid Cape Town

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• Publisher: SUN MeDIA
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781928314622
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion

The book argues that academics, academic developers and academic leaders need to undertake curriculum work in their institutions that has the potential to disrupt common sense notions about curriculum and create spaces for engagement with scholarly concepts and theories, to re'imagine curricula for the changing times. Now, more than ever in the history of higher education, curriculum practices and processes need to be shared; the findings of research undertaken on curriculum need to be disseminated to inform curriculum work. We hope the book will enable readers to look beyond their contextual difficulties and constraints, to find spaces where they can dream, and begin to implement, innovative and creative solutions to what may seem like intractable challenges or difficulties.

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editor’s Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Active participation in the Reconstruction and Development Programme
• 3. Muslim schooling patterns in the new South Africa
• 4. Breaking from Abū Jahl’s shadow: South African Muslims search for a ‘theology of softness’
• 5. Addressing the blighted Muslim psyche in the context of the current world crisis
• 6. Muslim community schools in Cape Town: exemplifying adaptation to the democratic landscape
• 7. Educational reflexivity in the age of discursive closure
• 8. Developing a critical Muslim political engagement with South African realities
• 9. Educational adaptation in a changing city
• 10. Muslim elites, the ʿulamā and ambiguous accommodation in democratic South Africa
• 11. The Ḥikmah (wisdom) of Advocate Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector, Republic of South Africa
• 12. Discovering the purpose of Ramaḍān in the time of load shedding
• 13. Cultivating recognition to advance environmental justice
• 14. Living in Fidelity to the Constitution
• 15. From responding to the water crisis to actively addressing poverty and hardship
• 16. ‘My Iran trip reveals cultural complexities’: impressions of the country and its people
• 17. Responding to the decolonisation imperative: Imagining Islam from the perspective of the ‘wretched of the earth’
• 18. Gratitude (shukr) and friendship (ṣadaqah) in transacting a ‘metaphysics of active presence’ in the city
• 19. After the Verulam Mosque attack we need to urgently counter sectarian discourse in our communities
• 20. Rereading the legacy of Imam Haron in the 50th year of commemorating his martyrdom
• 21. ‘Searching for Imam Haron’: Reflections on recent intra-Muslim polemics in South African Muslim civil society space
• 22. The living role of those who died foR us to be free
• 23. From abstinence (imsāk) to elevation (rifʿah): Reimagining Imam Abdullah Haron’s path of shahādah (bearing witness) in  he quest for justice and dignity
• Afterword