Introduction -- Active participation in the reconstruction and development programme -- Muslim schooling patterns in the new South Africa -- Breaking from Abū Jahl's shadow: South African Muslims' search for a 'theology of softness' -- Addressing the blighted Muslim psyche in the context of the current world crisis -- Muslim community schools in Cape Town: exemplifying adaptation to the democratic landscape -- Educational reflexivity in the age of discursive closure -- Developing a critical Muslim political engagement with South African realities -- Educational adaptation in a changing city -- Muslim elites, the 'ulamā and ambiguous accommodation in democratic South Africa -- The Hikmah (wisdom) of advocate Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector, Republic of South Africa -- Discovering the purpose of Ramadän in the time of load shedding -- Cultivating recognition to advance environmental justice -- Living in fidelity to the constitution -- From responding to the water crisis to actively addressing poverty and hardship -- My Iran trip reveals cultural complexities: impressions of the country and its people -- Responding to the decolonisation imperative: imagining Islam from the perspective of the 'wretched of the earth' -- Gratitude (shukr) and friendship (şadaqah) in transacting a 'metaphysics of active presence' in the city -- After the Verulam Mosque attack we need to urgently counter sectarian discourse in our communities -- Rereading the legacy of Imam Haron in the 50th year of commemorating his martyrdom -- Searching for Imam Haron: reflections on recent intra-Muslim polemics in South African Muslim civil society space -- The living role of those who died for us to be free -- From abstinence (imsāk) to elevation (rif'ah): reimagining Imam Abdullah Haron's path of shahādah (bearing witness) in the quest for justice and dignity.
Summary:
"The compositions brought together in this book began a quarter of a century ago in 1994, with the onset of South Africa⁰́₉s non-racial democracy, and in one way it may be viewed as the critical observations of an organic intellectual⁰́₉ engaging the exigencies of life during the first 25 years of South Africa's democracy."--Publisher's description.
Series:
Beyers Naudé Centre series on public theology ; volume 13
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.