Join us on Sunday, April 28th, at 2pm EST for an informative discussion with Dr. Muhammad U. Faruque on his book “Sculpting the Self – Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing”
Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.
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Dr Muhammad U. Faruque is the Inayat Malik Assistant Professor and a Taft Center Fellow at the University of Cincinnati and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.
His award-winning book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical literatures, including modern philosophy and neuroscience.
He is the author of three books and over fifty academic articles, which have appeared (or are forthcoming) in numerous leading, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes such as Sophia, Philosophy East and West, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (Cambridge), Journal of Sufi Studies (Brill), Religious Studies (Cambridge), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, and Ancient Philosophy.
He has delivered lectures in many North American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern universities.
He is also a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Templeton Foundation Global Philosophy of Religion grant and the Title IV Grant, U.S. Dept. of Education.
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