Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of
the Twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history …

University–community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address
difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to …

Arabic has great importance in many different ways for all Muslims and is a modern
language that could be of great value to non-Muslims also. The importance of words–written …

Ricœur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something
better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive …

The article explores possibilities of collaboration between Muslim providers of traditional
education (dar al-ulums) and HE/FE institutions in close geographical proximity in the North …

Ricoeur has written about translation as an ethical paradigm. Translation from one language
to another, and within one's own language, provides both a metaphor and a real mechanism …

In the early months of 2007 a staff development exercise with multiple purposes and outputs
was undertaken at the University of Gloucestershire. It aimed to identify innovative examples …

The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) addresses three key issues in the
narrative of Muslim communal identity and religious leadership in Britain today: firstly, the …

Historically, Muslims were not identified on the basis of religion in the same way as they are
now. They were discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity rather than religion. Yet, in a …

There is a stubborn strand in civil society in Britain that is characterized by pervasive and
divisive media coverage of Islam, and by cultural traditions living side by side but never …