Dr.Matthew Wilkinson addresses the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, University of Cardiff

By Dr. Matthew Wilkinson

19 May 2015. At the invitation of Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Dr.Matthew Wilkinson addressed Masters students, PhD researchers and staff of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, University of Cardiff on the subject of Islamic Critical Realism:a meta-framework for research on Islam and Muslims.

The address was in response to the work of a number of researchers at Cardiff who are applying the philosophy and social theory of Islamic Critical Realism, developed by Matthew, in their own research to provide an integrated approach to doing the most contemporary, leading-edge social science embedded in an authentically Islamic and Qur’anic world-view. We expect that the research being done at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK will provide innovative substantive and theoretical avenues for the philosophy of Islamic Critical Realism.