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 International Symposium “Humanism in Islam - An Intercultural Discourse”

This Symposium is organised in corporation of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Goethe-Institute in Egypt, and the project on "Humanism in the Era of Globalisation - an Intercultural Dialogue on Humanity, Culture and Values" of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen/Germany. All three institutes agree upon the necessity of an intercultural valid humanism as an essential element of cultural orientation in the process of globalisation.
It is therefore high time to establish a dialogue between Western and non-Western civilizations on their interrelationship as well as their understanding of fundamental values and cultural identity and diversity so that cultural confrontations can be reduced and new shared insights and ways of recognition of the interrelation of civilizations may be developed, strengthened and demonstrated.
The Symposium contributes to this dialogue by thematizing the traditions of countries which are deeply influenced by Islam. It discusses the peculiarity of humanism in the context of these conditions and their topical importance for the lives of the people. It brings Islamic humanism into a discursive relationship to other humanistic traditions in Europe, India, China and Latin-America. By doing so it tackles the highly debated issue of the interrelationship of religion and secularism in respect to modern humanism. Middle Eastern and Western perspectives are brought together in a comparative perspective as well as in a perspective of mutual critique and recognition.
The Symposium is dedicated to the aim of renewing the different traditional humanisms and perpetuating them into the future of world society. Program
For further information and registration please contact Aladdin Sarhan, Coordinator of Humanism-Project at KWI: aladdin.sarhan@kwi-nrw.de ; see www.kwi-humanismus.de 
Marcel Siepmann, März 2009