Wednesday, February 19
3 PM
Kennedy Auditorium, CLC 412
Xavier University Campus
The Brueggeman Center For Dialogue in collaboration with Faith Communities Go Green presents this program and will:
- Examine both the promises and risks of climate solutions
- Challenge tecno-optimism
- Explore impact on ecological economics, post-growth alternatives, and sustainability
- Question humanity’s relationship with nature from a Sufi perspective
Muhammad U. Faruque is the Inayat Malik Associate Professor of Islamic and Global Philosophy and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) won the prestigious 31st World Book of the Year Award from the President of Iran. The book 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 four 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, Journal of Sufi Studies, Religious Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, and Ancient Philosophy. He has delivered lectures in numerous 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.