The Centre for Muslim States and Societies

would like to invite you to a lecture by renowned Islamic scholar

Professor James Piscatori

on

Iraq and the Future of Political Islam

5-6.30pm

Thursday, 17 May 2007

Fox Lecture Theatre (Arts Building, UWA)

Professor James Piscatori is Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, Senior Tutor of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia), ANU. 

He is author of Islam in a World of Nation-States and co-author of Muslim Politics. His most recent work is Monarchies and Nations: Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, and of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.

Professor Piscatori will be in Perth, at the Centre for Muslim States and Societies to give a lecture on the current situation in Iraq.

Some have argued that the Iraqi war and, generally, the war on terrorism will contain Islamic radicalism, whereas others have argued that they have encouraged it. The purpose of this lecture will be to examine the impact that the current war has had on the course of political Islam in the Middle East. It will evaluate whether Sunni-Shi’i divisions are growing more important and assess the current influence of Islamist movements ranging from al-Qaeda to Hizbullah and Hamas. These will be examined against the background of American and Iranian involvement in the region, the continuing significance of the Palestinian question, and the search for long-term political stability in the Gulf states.

ALL WELCOME