The Qur'an in the Modern Age

About this lecture

In this lecture delivered in Cambridge, the speaker explores what it truly means to engage with the Qur'an in the modern age by first dissecting modernity's defining characteristic: the separation of knowledge from ethics. He argues that the Qur'an presents three imperatives — ethical, cultural, and political — that stand in direct opposition to the assumptions of the modern world, challenging Muslims to move beyond a passive, individualistic relationship with the Qur'an toward one that transforms the self and society alike.