Please make sure to mark your calendars to attend our first academic conference tomorrow, April 5th starting at 8:15am PST, in sha Allah - the entire conference will be live streamed. Well be profiling our speakers and presenters leading up to the event and we wanted to introduce Imam Manzural Islam from Duke University, North Carolina. Manzarul Islam Al-Azhari is the imam at the Islamic Association of Cary, North Carolina. Traditionally trained in several of the world’s most acclaimed Islamic universities, he has a deep understanding of the Qur’an and Sunnah. As a specialist in fiqh and hadith, Manzarul Islam has a holistic and sound knowledge of traditional and contemporary Islmic scholarship in terms of historical context, reasoning, and application. Maulana has a unique way of contextualizing and understanding the educational, social, and religious issues that are pressing upon Muslims in the contemporary West. He has also translated many books into Arabic and Urdu that have been published in Egypt and India. After completing his Darse Nizami in two institutions of higher education in India, Maulana spent approximately five years studying at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Egypt where he earned an ijaza in ifta from Darul Ifta a specialization in hadith . He has recently established Al-Baheej Institute with the objective to instill Islamic character in American Muslim youth and to provide Islamic educational services to Muslims of all ages. Al-Baheej is an online institute that also offers a number of face-to-face workshops in various cities throughout the US catering to Muslim students and youth. He is currently finishing a Master’s degree in Liberal Studies at Duke University in North Carolina. Please join us in hearing him speak on “Reclaiming Discursive Authority: The Perils and Possibilities of Western Analytical Methodology for the Islamic Textual Tradition in the 21st Century”. zaytunacollege.org/event/april5 Please sign up for email notification of the live stream on zaytunacollege.org or text zaytuna to #22828.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:00:01 +0000
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