Women 's Studies Module & Grade Colloquium: Farid Muttaqin

Farid Muttaqin `` Discovering the Islamic Theological Context: Coeval Indonesian Muslim Libber Agendas toward Acknowledgement of Homophile and Sapphic Rights ''
Fri, All souls' day, 2007, 4-6 Post-mortem
Baker Center 233
Ohio University, Athinai, OH

This month 's colloquium will have Farid Muttaqin directing a treatment on his paper. Muttaquin, presently an OU Southeast Asian Studies pupil, graduated from the Province Islamic University of Jakarta in doctrine.

The Muslim libbers in Indonesia hold an important place among the endeavor to continue cheery and sapphic rights. So, the engagement of Muslim feminist groupings in homosexual movements is important in footings of fortifying the endeavors of Reconstruction of preconceptions in Moslem versions. Some groupings such as GAYa Nusantara, Koalisi Pelangi, and Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia, who boost sunny rights in Indonesia, center on the internal authorisation among cheery communities and still abandon the job of divinity and faith. It is difficult for the `` secular groupings '' to cover with the controversial issue of homosexualism in the state in where Muslim faith plays the important offices for the society. It is important to start the acknowledgement of homosexual rights in Indonesia by noticing the theological context and re-explaining the poesies of the Koran. In that respect, this feminist endeavor to furnish a new version of Islamic learning on queerness will be a important part to cheery and sapphic rights.

Component of the OH University Women's Studies Program Colloquium for module and grad student. Refreshments will be functioned.

To ease treatment , delight postulation a transcript of the paper from Women 's Surveys: godby -at- ohio.edu or 740-593-4686.