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February 2009
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 Dr. Zainab Taha Jabir al-Alwani, lecturer at John Hopkins University and member of the Fiqh Council of North America, presented her Ph.D. thesis on “Marriage and Divorce in American Muslim Families: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Muslim Family Matters” at IIIT on Monday, February 23, 2009.
Dr. Zainab successfully defended her ...
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 A group of twelve French Muslims who are studying for a degree in Islamic Studies at IIIT France are in the U.S. to attend an intensive certificate program on History and Sociology of Islam in America at The Fairfax Institute during this week.
They will be attending lectures and guided field visits during the day, and dinner lectures in the evening all week from Monday, February 16 to Friday, February 20 on History of Islam in America, Muslims in...
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 Two prominent Pakistan scholars visited IIIT Friday February 13, 2009 and briefed a group of selected scholars and IIIT staff of their ongoing work on enhancement of madrasas in Pakistan. Dr. Abdul Rashid, religious scholar and former Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi spoke about the Madrasa Teacher Training Institute he has established at the University of Karachi to provide professional training and eventual certification for madrasa teachers – the first of its kind in Pakistan... |
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 Approaching the Sunnah: Comprehension and Controversy by Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been translated into Tamil language. The original book was in Arabic and is also translated into English and other languges including Malay, Indonesian, Turkish.
The Sunnah still provides the stable moral framework – the grammar – that enables Muslims, by formal rules and inward sense, to know right from wrong. However, separation from the mainstream of life puts the Sunnah in danger of becoming rigid – an archaism. Addressing that danger, this book explains how the Sunnah can function as the grammar of a living, adaptive language, capable of guiding (and not shying from) the mainstream. The first chapter sets out the qualities that characterize authentic application of the Sunnah: universality, coherence (so that different spheres of human responsibility are not split), compassionate realism, moderation, and humility.
The second explains standards and procedures for determining the Sunnah in the fields of jurisprudence and moral instruction. The third chapter illustrates through detailed examples common errors in understanding the Sunnah – reading hadiths singly without sufficient context, confusing legal and moral injunctions, means and ends, figurative and literal meanings - and it proposes remedies for these errors. |
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 As part of the US Department of State International Visitor Program, seven Imams from Turkey visited Washington on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, and met with leaders of American Muslim organizations as well as representatives of the Interfaith community in the metropolitan Washington area. The meeting was held at the Islamic Center of Washington, DC, and focused on the ... |
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