Ali Mazrui: Islam between Concord and Clash of Cultures
Event
- Title:
- Ali Mazrui: Islam between Concord and Clash of Cultures
- When:
- 16 January, 2007 - 16 January, 2007
- Where:
- Chatham House - London
- Category:
- Events/Meetings
Description
ISLAM BETWEEN CONCORD AND CLASH OF CULTURES
Tuesday 16th January 2007, 6pm
Chatham House, 10 St James' Square, London
On the eve of the 21st century Samuel Huntington predicted for the new century what might be called “the culture line”. Huntington argued that the end of the Cold War would be followed by an unfolding “clash of civilizations…along the fault-lines”. Have clashes of civilizations replaced racial conflicts or are the two reinforcing each other? Since the end of apartheid hundreds of thousands more people have been killed in inter-cultural wars than in inter-racial. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Al-Qaeda and even Darfur are primarily clashes of culture rather than race. We are back to Shakespeare’s world, where race is declining in salience – while culture is resilient.
Dr. Ali Mazrui has published more than twenty books, including Islam Between Globalization and Counter-Terrorism and Towards a Pax Africana. Dr. Mazrui's television work includes the widely discussed 1986 series The Africans: A Triple Heritage. In 2005 the American journal, FOREIGN POLICY (Washington, DC), and the British Journal, PROSPECT (London), nominated Ali Mazrui among the top 100 public intellectuals alive in the world as a whole. FOREIGN POLICY is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York. Mazrui was earlier elected an Icon of the Twentieth Century by Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Dr. Mazrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Venue
- Venue:
- Chatham House
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