Return to Wisdom in Islam (Hamza Yusuf)
The lecture of Hamza Yusuf about proper understanding of Islam.
The lecture of Hamza Yusuf about proper understanding of Islam.
An inspiring talk by Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah. In Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad taught us the foundations of our faith. These essential messages are what we should prioritize above all else.
Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi is a prominent Syrian Islamic scholar. He himself and his family are of an expressed Caucasian type (like many Syrians are) and are a descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). They are a family of Islamic scholars that traces its roots back to Morocco. and has taught the Islamic sciences for centuries.[Read More…]
Hamza Yusuf was born as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington to two academics working at Whitman College and he was raised in northern California. He grew up a practicing Greek Orthodox Christian and attended prep schools on both the east and west coasts. In 1977, after a near-death experience and reading the Qur’an, he converted from Christianity to Islam[5][Read More…]
Imam Abdurrahman Sykes is an American born revert who has faced those challenges himself and is working hard to educate both native and foreign born Muslims in a manner that explains both the essentials of the faith and how they coincide with the American experience. This need was accelerated after the events of the last decade as Islam itself was[Read More…]
Ingrid Mattson (born August 24, 1963) is a Muslim religious leader, a professor of Islamic Studies. She is the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Mattson is a former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and was described as “Perhaps the most noticed figure among American Muslim women” in a 2010[Read More…]
Yusuf Estes was born in the mid-west United States 1944 to a religious Christian family. They to Houston, Texas in 1949 where he grew in the Disciples of Christ and was baptized into the church in 1956. Over the years he completed his studies in music and became a music teacher, well known entertainer and businessman and finally a music[Read More…]
Timothy Winter’s (Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad) BBC Radio 3 interview on his conversion to Islam with Joan Bakewell. Joan Bakewell talks to Cambridge University chaplain and Muslim convert Tim Winter, known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. He explores the moral sense of the sacred, instilled in him by his mother, his search for a connection with his creator and[Read More…]
Murad Wilfried Hofman. Ph.D (Law) Harvard. German Social Scientist and Diplomat. Embraced Islam in 1980. Dr. Hofmann, who accepted Islam in 1980, was born as a Catholic in Germany in 1931. He graduated from Union College in New York and completed his legal studies at Munich University where he received a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1957. He became a research[Read More…]
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