Please join us on Thursday for “Keeping Momentum: Islam, Black Lives, and Continuing Forward from our History. This is a panel designed for Muslims students to be educated, and motivated to learn and grow with the moment we're experiencing.  Our speakers will be touching upon the topics of History, activism, spirituality, and burnout.

We will be featuring Dr. Bilal Ware a historian of Africa and Islam in the department of History at U.C. Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Pennsylvania where he trained in African History, African-American History, and Islamic Intellectual History.

Dr. Jamilah Karim obtained her Ph.D from Duke University in Islamic Studies. She is an award-winning author, lecturer, and blogger. She is the co-author of a new book, Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (NYUP 2014). Karim specializes in race, gender, and Islam in America.

Dr. Rasul Miller has a PhD in the fields of History and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Yale University’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration has awarded Rasul Miller a 2019-20 post-doctoral fellowship for his work on the racialization of Islam.

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Welcome back to our alumni! Join us to meet old friends and new ones at our annual Homecoming Brunch.

This dual book launch event brings together two friends and seekers to discuss their encounter with Muslim Saints and Spirituality over the decades. Featuring Peter Sanders & Michael Sugich.

The event will be held at the Tabernacle United Church in the Upper Sanctuary. The entrance to the church is on s 37th street.

MEETINGS WITH MOUNTAINS

https://www.facebook.com/Meetings-With-Mountains-Book-Peter-Sanders-375231779781127/

For nearly one half a century acclaimed British photographer Peter Sanders has traveled the earth to capture images of the saints of Islam. In the traditional world, these people of purity, knowledge and illumination have been the role models, benchmarks and exemplars of what it is to be human. The goal of this spiritual tradition is nothing less than direct experience or ma’arifa (gnosis) of God’s presence. The fulfillment and embodiment of this tradition is the Friend or Intimate of God. This lengthy search has finally culminated in the publication entitled Meetings with Mountains, Encounters with the Saints and Sages of the Islamic World.

HEARTS TURN: SINNERS, SEEKERS, SAINTS AND THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION

https://www.meccabooks.com/1570-hearts-turn-sinners-seekers-saints-and-the-road-to-redemption-9780989364003.html

’Hearts Turn’ is a singular and gripping exploration of the act of 'tawba', a Qur’anic term commonly translated as repentance. In English, repentance is a forbidding word that suggests a puritanical finality. But in Arabic the term 'tawba' is dynamic, meaning to ‘turn’ or ‘return’. 'At-Tawwab' is one of the Names of God, the Oft-Returning or Ever-Relenting. It is an active constant, an ongoing, compassionate reality that renews every moment we are alive. The process of purification is a process of continuous turning. 

In ‘Hearts Turn’ Michael Sugich, author of ‘Signs on the Horizons’, tells stories that are harrowing and hilarious, heartrending and bizarre, profane and transcendent, and altogether full of hope, showing how men and women from many parts of the world and many walks of life have turned themselves around and taken a fork in the road toward a higher reality. 

The Day of Ashura marks the death anniversary of Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, who was killed in The Battle of Karbala along with many other members of the Prophet’s family. The Day of Ashura is mourned by millions across the world to remember Hussain’s valiant stand for social justice.

Join us for a lecture on what Ashura tells us about human nature with Chaplain Muhammed Ali from Bucknell University. Event followed by iftar.

Welcome to our new students, welcome back to our returning students, and welcoming the new Islamic year along with dua.

First-years - join us to see what the Muslim Life Program has to offer! Exact date and time TBA.

Join us to celebrate Eid al Adha with dinner at the CA!

The Prophet (pbuh) set the example of fasting on the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, the second day of Hajj and the day before Eid al-Adha. In keeping with this, we will be hosting a pancake suhoor!