Critical Reading Group

The Critical Reading Group (CRG) was established in Autumn 2007 as a space for Muslims from diverse backgrounds to meet and critically and playfully explore the works of important scholars and thinkers. The initiative has organised close to 100 two?hour weekly evening sessions over the past four years, engaged with an incredible array of subjects, and honed a spiritual, intellectual and practical fellowship. Its 2009 public engagement event The Iqbal Sessions can be found on YouTube. Currently the group is widening participation and making the transition from critical reading to creative problematising.

For more on the CRG e-mail, thecriticalreadinggroup 'at' gmail.com

CRG Update December 2011

The Critical Reading Group is looking for a new manager to coordinate its London-based session. It is also seeking to develop its participant audience through social media and will be releasing podcasts over the next months. We understand that physical meetings are difficult to attend for many and will endeavour to broadcast and receive whatever we can.

To register your interest, email thecriticalreadinggroup 'at' gmail.com.

The group blog can be found on http://thecrg.wordpress.com/

Critical Reading Group May 2011 Update

This term we enter The Time Machine. It is a critical journey to make. In order to construct an Islamic Modernity to call our own, the believers require the capacity and athleticism to imagine and inhabit the future. This involves time travel in both directions.

As well as texts of Revelation, Prophecy, Philosophy, Historiography and Future Studies, we shall engage the mediums of Film, Sci-Fi, Visual Arts and Graphic Novels. Please visit the CRG blog for resources on each session.

Wednesdays at 7-9 pm @ King's

Introduction

Critical Reading Group hopes to engage with the writing of thinkers, scientists, philosophers and theologians – some well-known, others not so well-known – who have had or continue to have a profound, perhaps surprising influence in the world of ideas as we experience it today. We anticipate that the group will consist of Muslims who take seriously but critically the undeniable edifice of most, if not all, great civilizations: fellowship, faith, learning and scholarship.

Please have a look below for our weekly topics and discussions