Prof Haron to deliver the 11th annual Imam Haron Memorial Lecture
Professor Muhammed Haron, the only son of the late Imam Abdullah Haron, will deliver the 11th annual Imam Haron Memorial Lecture at the Islamia Auditorium, Islamia College, Imam Haron Rd, Lansdowne at 19h30 on Wednesday, 26 September 2018.
His lecture will be titled, Imam Abdullah Haron: A Man for All Seasons
Prof Haron is based at the University of Botswana’s Department of Theology & Religious Studies where he is a full Professor in Religious Studies.
He was previously attached to the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a visiting lecturer at the National University of Malaysia (1994), the University of Stellenbosch (2008) and Rhodes University (2008 and 2018). He is also an Associate Researcher at the University of Pretoria.
Prof Haron is as an executive member of the Centre for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is editor of two publications – the Annual Review of Islam in Africa, and the online Research Africa Reviews which is based at USA’s Duke University.
He is currently working on a ‘Historiographical Study of Shaykh Yusuf Al-Makassari’s works’ – a University of South Africa-based project; an ‘Annotated Bibliography of Southern Africa’s Muslims,’ as well as doing a ‘Biographical study of Imam Abdullah Haron’.
Prof Haron follows a series of high profile personalities who have delivered the Imam Haron Memorial Lecture in previous years including the late Prof Neville Alexander, Minister Ebrahim Patel, Justice Albie Sachs, Prof Jonathan Jansen, Minister Naledi Pandor, former cabinet minister Trevor Manuel, Wits University Vice Chancellor Professor Adam Habib, retired constitutional court judge Zak Yacoob and student activist Fasiha Hassen who delivered last year’s lecture.
The Imam Haron Memorial Lecture is organised by the IAHET in honour of the late Imam Abdullah Haron, former Imam of Stegman Rd Mosque Claremont, who died in police detention on 27 September 1969.