Educator, author and founder of the Moral Courage Project
Years active
1990–present
Awards
Honorary Doctorate, University of Puget Sound Honorary Doctorate, Bishop's University Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum Ethical Humanist Award, New York Society for Ethical Culture
Website
irshadmanji.com
Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of The Trouble with Islam Today (2004) and Allah, Liberty and Love (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries.[1][2][3] She also produced a PBS documentary in the America at a Crossroads series, titled Faith Without Fear, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008.[1][4] A former journalist and television presenter, Manji is an advocate of a reformist interpretation of Islam and a critic of literalist interpretations of the Qur'an.[citation needed]
Her latest book, Don't Label Me (2019), proposes methods on how to heal political, racial, and cultural divides. The ideas in the book are related to the Moral Courage Project, which Manji founded at New York University in 2008 and expanded to the University of Southern California (USC) in 2016, when she was a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.[5] After leaving USC, she founded Moral Courage College with the goal of teaching "young people how to engage honestly about polarizing issues rather than shaming or canceling each other".[6] Manji lectures on these themes as a senior research fellow with the Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights.[7]
^ abBedell, Geraldine (2 August 2008). "Interview: 'I cringed when they compared me to Martin Luther'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
^"Malaysia: Reverse Book Ban". Human Rights Watch. 31 May 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
^"Muslim gay Canadian launches book in Malaysia despite 'ban'". Al Arabiya News. AFP. 19 May 2012. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
^"Nominees for the 29th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". Emmy Online. 15 July 2008. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
^"Irshad Manji". Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. USC Annenberg. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
^Manji, Irshad (16 August 2020). "Hating the "Hateful"". Persuasion. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
^"Fellows". Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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