Topic: Radical Critical Fidelity: Barzakhi Journeys in Islamic Feminism Shaikh 
Committed to gender and social justice, Islamic feminism expands the ethical and intellectual archive within Muslim communities. Professor Shaikh will trace key sources, epistemological concerns and theoretical explorations that have influenced her scholarship in Islamic feminism over the last two decades. Embracing metaphors of journeying and of in-betweenness (the barzakh), she theorises Islamic feminism as a friendship with/in tradition characterised by a stance of ‘radical critical fidelity.’ 

About our speaker 
Sa’diyya Shaikh is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town. She specialises in the study of Islam, gender ethics, and feminist theory, with a special interest in Sufism. Her study of Islam began with an abiding interest in existential questions as well as a commitment to social justice – much of her work is animated by an interest and curiosity about the relationship between the realms of spiritual and the political. Sa’diyya is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Islam, research at UCT. She has held research fellowships at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Institute for Advanced Study (2016-2017) and at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (2020); and was a Fulbright PhD scholar.

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