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Mondays, September 15, 22, 29, and October 6 at 7:00 pm
Presenter: Javed Chaudhri
Javed is a gifted and knowledgeable speaker who will talk about:
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The Rise of Islam -- Pre-Islamic Arabia. Muhammad and
the Faith, Law, Morality, Politics and the State in early Islam. The
Spread of the Empire and the Faith.
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The Apogee -- The Islamic Empire,
relations with neighboring empires, peoples and faiths, the development
of the Islamic State, the origins of the Crusades, the gulf between
Muslims and Christians, and the place of Christians, Jews and other
faiths in the Islamic world.
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The Decay -- The Rise and Triumph
of the West. Mercantilism, Colonialism and Imperialism and the
subjugation of the Muslim world, the Muslim Renaissance, the view of the
West in Modern Islam, the Cold War and the choices Islamic countries
made, and modernity, social and economic development.
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Muslims and the Road to Modernity -- featuring visual
images of paintings, photographs from the early history of Islam, the
sharing of ideas, themes, styles between the Christian world and the
Muslim.
Javed Chaudhri was born and raised in
Pakistan, and graduated from Marlboro
College in Vermont with High Honors in History, returned to Pakistan for 5
years and worked for Unilever. In 1971, he returned to the US to attend the
New School in NYC and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he
earned a graduate degree in Anthropology. Javed taught briefly at the
Community College of Vermont and then settled down in Montreal. In 1980 he
again returned to Paskistan shortly after the Russian invasion of
Afghanistan and stayed for twenty years, traveling to India, the Middle
East, Europe and Africa. He became a well known and successful business
manager and consultant, taught business in graduate school and
re-established close ties with many of the political and military
personalities as well as business leaders whom he had grown up with.
He has spoken at various fora, schools, colleges, churches and peace rallies
in the United States on Afghanistan, Iraq, Islam and the Muslim World.
Javed is a lay member of a unique
interfaith group, the Brattleboro Area
Clergy whose members seek to work in unison as inheritors of the Abrahamic
tradition.
Javed is married to Yasmeen a
graduate of Antioch New England Graduate Center and is a teacher in
Brattleboro. Their eldest son Tariq also graduated from Marlboro
College and their twin sons Taimur and Tahir, born in Montreal, also studied
at the same college.
Javed is returning to Walpole, having been
part of the Spring 2008 Lectures. He has a rich understanding of the need
for understanding between people of different cultures and faiths. We look
forward to welcoming him back to St. John’s in September.
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