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The Durban University of Technology invites members of the media and the public to a public talk on Lessons of leadership from history: History not Historiconics by Professor Taj Hargey.
The lecture will be held at the University’s Hotel School Conference Centre on the Ritson Campus on Saturday, 05 March 2015 at 11h00.
Prof Hargey is a distinguished Oxford academic specialist on Islam and the Middle East. His scholarly expertise incorporates the study of African history, comparative religion, interfaith relations and a contemporary analysis of the Muslim diaspora in the West. For this scholastic achievement, he was the recipient of a merit bursary to undertake a postgraduate study in Egypt.
Following the acquisition of his Master’s degree in Islamic Studies, he was awarded a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University, becoming the first Muslim from South Africa to be awarded a doctoral degree from this renowned seat of learning. Thereafter, he held several academic appointments at higher education institutions, including South Africa, Sudan, United Kingdom and the United States, where he focused on the teaching and research of Islamic Studies and Middle East history.
Prof Hargey says in South Africa, a ‘toxic combination of colonialism, slavery and imperialism
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Dr. Taj Hargey in his Open Mosque, Cape Town
This article originally appeared on VICE UK
Dr. Taj Hargey says he became radicalized after 9/11.
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“I went to mosque in Oxford that week, after the largest political event of the age concerning Muslims, and did anyone mention it? No. Not at all,” he says. “I mean, it wasn’t entirely clear to what extent this concerned Islam just then, but where was the basic human compassion? I thought, Something’s wrong here.’”
Hargey is now a full-blown radical, and he’s waging his own private jihad, turning Muslim teaching away from the stodgy conservatism of most clerics.
Not only is he a radical, Hargey’s also a hardcore fundamentalist, in that he rejects the Hadith—the book of the so-called “sayings of the Prophet” (compiled 200 years after the Prophet died) and the text used to form the outline of Sharia law. Unsurprisingly, Hargey also rejects Sharia itself.
The Open Mosque, Cape Town
Fundamentally, he points out, Islam is about the Qur’an, and it is from the Qur’an that he will preach, ignoring all the other footnotes beloved of modern clerics. All of that stuff, he says, has no pertinence to the Qur’an: It&