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"Islam Unknown" A series by Fons Elders / An Icarus Films Release http://www.icarusfilms.com/new2012/is... ISLAM UNKNOWN is a collection of eight interviews with unconventional Muslim intellectuals. In each episode, eclectic Dutch philosopher Fons Elders engages the thinkers in probing discussion on topics including gender, economics, sharia, secularism, colonialism, and the nature of religious authority. What emerges is a nuanced and illuminating series of contemporary perspectives on one of the world's great religions. PART 1: Asma Barlas — God is Uncreated, God is Without Sex and Gender Professor Asma Barlas doesn't call herself a feminist — but she is a believer in "radical sexual equality" based on a reading of the Qur'an. "Unfortunately... men interpret God's word in ways that favour themselves, and then it becomes a closed circle and it is really difficult to challenge it," says Barlas, the author of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. She argues that, like other texts, the Qur'an is open to multiple readings and that Tawhid — the fundamental Muslim concept of the oneness of God — clearly transcends gender differences. Interviewed during the third Conference on Islamic Feminism, held in Barcelona, Barlas is a lively and dynamic thinker who critically engages in her own tradition, while also holding the West to account for centuries-old anti-Islamic stereotypes that are still deployed in new forms today. http://icarusfilms.com/new2012/islam....