{"id":5414,"date":"2017-09-25T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2017-09-25T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:51:55","slug":"5414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/2017\/09\/25\/5414\/","title":{"rendered":"Hefner keynotes in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>On September 29<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span>, 2017, Professor Robert W. Hefner will present the keynote address at the opening of a conference on <a href=\"https:\/\/irfront.net\/post\/events\/second-regional-conference-on-a-civil-islam-prospects-and-challenges-in-the-21st-century\/\">\u201cA Civil Islam: Prospects and Challenges in the 21<\/a><\/span><sup>st<\/sup><span> Century,\u201d in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. \u00a0The event is sponsored by the Malaysia-based Islamic Renaissance Front, which was founded in 2009 and describes itself as \u201can intellectual movement and a think tank focusing on youth empowerment and promotion of intellectual discourse.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIRF is dedicated to the revival and reform of Islamic thought and its methodology in order to enable the ummah to deal effectively with present challenges and contribute to the progress of human civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 29th, 2017, Professor Robert W. Hefner will present the keynote address at the opening of a conference on \u201cA Civil Islam: Prospects and Challenges in the 21st Century,\u201d in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. \u00a0The event is sponsored by the Malaysia-based Islamic Renaissance Front, which was founded in 2009 and describes itself as \u201can intellectual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[965,974],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}