Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu is a Research Fellow for the Public Ethics and Citizenship in Plural Societies research cluster of Contending Modernities program, funded by CURA and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame. Ahmet carried out research in Boston, San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles over the last 2 years. The following photos are from Bob Hefner and Ahmet’s follow-up visit to the San Francisco Bay Area in November 2014.
Ahmet with Murat Bilici, a Master of Islamic Studies candidate at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), pictured inside the key GTU member institution, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) on Berkeley’s “Holy Hill.”Professor Hefner addressed students and faculty at Zaytuna College, in Berkeley, California in an event entitled, “Islamic ethics, law, and subjectivity: The challenge of religious diversity and coexistence in in a pluralist age.” To his left are Dr. Mahan Mirza, Dean of Faculty at Zaytuna College, and Imam Zaid Shakir, senior faculty member and co-founder of Zaytuna College.Ahmet Selim with imam Tahir Anwar, religious Director of South Bay Islamic Association, one of the largest mosques in San Jose, CA
