The Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies will hold a conference on:

Muslim Minorities in Non-Muslim Majority Countries:

The Islamic Movement in Israel as a Test Case

Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:30 – 17:30

The “Bnei Tzion” Auditorium at the Diaspora Museum

Tel Aviv University

Lectures will be delivered in Hebrew.

Simultaneous translation into English will be provided.

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?

Please Save the Date.

A detailed program of the conference will be distributed soon.

Please RSVP by:

Telephone: 03-6409991

E-mail: arabpol@post.tau.ac.il