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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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04 April 2013

Justice in Islamic Law and Ethics

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“The [Shari’a] is there to serve the cause of justice and not to apply rules for the sake of rules”- PROF DR MOHAMMAD HASHIM KAMALI
I now come to my last Singapore lecture on justice – the first was a secular version through the lens of philosophers John Rawls and Agnes Heller; the second on Jesus and justice with the help of Yale’s Nicholas Wolterstorff; and now I end with a two-part peek into some debates Muslims are having with one another on justice, human…
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21 March 2013

Jesus and Justice

Written by
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University
In the first lecture I touched on political justice as theorized in the works of philosophers John Rawls and Agnes Heller. But far from locking us into theoretical considerations, their thinking helped us reflect on the current turmoil in Egypt. In the midst of the specific historic challenges Egyptians face in 2013, its leaders have to find a just balance…
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16 March 2013

Mohammad Farooq on Reforming Islamic Law

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Head of Centre: Islamic Finance and Head of Research
Islamic law in this new century is in a state of flux. Granted, venerable institutions that are a millennium old don’t change overnight. As it turned out, the recalibrations made out of necessity in many nineteenth-century Muslim countries were not enough to stem the tide of secularization in the postcolonial period. Though each of the fifty six member states of…
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27 February 2013

Justice and Liberal Democracies

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Agnes Heller, Hungarian-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the New School for Social Research, New York.
This may seem like a boring title, but it speaks directly to the instability, turmoil and even violence that flagship states Tunisia and Egypt are experiencing two years after their “revolutions.” Mounting distrust between the two islamist regimes and their secular opposition parties has so widened this decades-long divide that it now threatens the very survival of their democratic institutions.…
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