On September 27, 2017, Professor Abdullahi An-Na’im gave the Lin Great Speaker Series Keynote at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The lecture was entitled Religious Freedom and the Universality of Human Rights: A Modernist Islamic Perspective.
“The Human Rights discourse that we have is a civilizing mission because it is not willing to accept the authorship and original authority of other societies in articulating what their understanding of human rights are.”
– Professor Abdullahi An-Na’im