Muslim Minorities in Non-Muslim Majority Countries: The Islamic Movement in Israel as a Test Case - Foundation Office Israel
Symposium
Details
The goal of the upcoming conference is to introduce an analytical framework that can be applied to a comparative study of Muslim minorities globally (and in Europe in particular), including Muslims in Israel who consider themselves to have a special status as an indigenous minority group.Comparisons will focus on three levels: identity, Islamic legislation, and politics.
Among the issues that will be discussed at the conference:
- The similarities and differences between attempts to bridge between Islamic law and the challenges of a modern European lifestyle, and corresponding attempts in Israel
- The impact of the Fiqh al-Aqaliyyat Doctrine (“Minorities Doctrine”) on the Islamic Movement in Israel, if any
- Whether the process of shaping an Islamic agenda is similar in all non-Muslim-majority countries
- Has the Islamic Movement in Israel developed a unique national-political platform as a result of the “double marginalization” of Israel’s Arab minority?
Program
Registration and Greetings
Dr. Ephraim Lavie, Acting director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation
Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Israel
Prof. Eyal Zisser, Head of the Moshe Dayan Center
First Session: Islamic Identity – A Comparative View
Dr. Leah Kinberg (Tel Aviv University)
Dr. Uriya Shavit (Tel Aviv University)
Structuring Islamic identity in Europe and Israel: Outlines for a comparative discussion
Dr. Sagi Polka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi’s Fatwas on Europe’s Muslims: Shaping Muslim identity in Western society
Discussant: Mr. Harold Rhode
Second Session: Islamic Identity – The Case of Israel
Dr. Ephraim Lavie (Tel Aviv University)
Dr. Elie Rekhess (Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University)
The Islamization of the Arab Identity in Israel – The Islamic Movement, 1972-1996
Dr. Nimrod Luz (Western Galilee academic college)
The Islamic Movement and the seduction of the sacred Landscape:
The struggle over land through the holy sites
Mr. Ibrahim al-Quran (Ben Gurion University in the Negev)
The rising national-Islamist consciousness of Negev Bedouin
Intermission
Third Session: The Legislative-Islamic Dimension
Prof. Ilai Alon (Tel Aviv University)
Mr. Shammai Fishman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sheikh Taha Jabir al-Alwani and the link between Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat (Muslim Minority Jurisprudence)
and the Gates of Ijtihad
Dr. Ashraf Abu Zarka (University of Haifa)
The position of the Islamist Movement on Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat
Qadi Iyad Zahalka (Sharia Court, Haifa)
The position of the Muslim community in Israel on Sharia Jurisprudence
Coffee break
Forth Session: The Islamic Movement in Israel – The National-Political Dimension
Dr. Elie Rekhess (Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University)
Mr. Mohanad Mustafa (University of Haifa)
Political participation of the Islamic Movement – An interim status report
Dr. Mansour Abbas (Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Islamist Movement)
The Islamic Movement: Caught between Islamic Jurisprudence and State law
Dr. Mordechai Keidar (Bar-Ilan University)
The Islamic Movement: Religious movement or political party?
Lectures will be delivered in Hebrew.
Simultaneous translation into English will be provided.