“Last year when the Federal government announced $8-million in funding for a new Islamic Study Centre based at Melbourne University, Parliamentary Secretary, Andrew Robb predicted the centre would produce a new generation of moderate home-grown imams. But the new Director of the Centre, Professor Abdullah Saeed, says the centre won't be training imams at all. In fact Melbourne University's strict secular charter prevents it even offering theology degrees….
The government of Oman had established a number of chairs in a number of Western countries including Georgetown, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and more recently Leiden. It is part of a series of such high profile chairs. The government of Oman gave the University of Melbourne $2.5-million to create this chair...”
Listen to the podcast interview with Professor Abdulla Saeed, The Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Melbourne University.
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