Islamic Institutions

Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation : A Summer School in Granada, Spain

Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival Granada, Spain-June 10-21, 2013 FINAL ROUND APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 15, 2013 The international Summer School, Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival, is an intensive seminar composed of several courses (all of them held in […]

No compulsion in Islam : Malaysian Mufti

Malaysia Ex-Perlis mufti backs Nurul Izzah, says ‘no compulsion in Islam’ Asri said he previously expressed a view similar to that of the Lembah Pantai lawmaker’s. — File pic KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 — There is no compulsion in Islam, popular Islamic scholar Datuk Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin has said in his […]

Islamic School Trains Imams in France

Pupils study interpretations of the Koran’s twelfth chapter, at the European Institute of Social Sciences in central France.—AFP Photo SAINT-LIGER-DE-FOUGERET: Deep in the wooded hills of Burgundy in central France, an unusual institute is training unusual students: aspiring French imams who hope to minister to the country’s large Muslim population. Early in the […]

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

NOTE:  Shaykh Hamza Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute in Hayward about 2 blocks from me and has relocated it to Berkeley.  Regarded as a moderate, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is a sought-after Muslim speaker in Bay Area. ( H. Koya) Shaykh Hamza Yusuf & the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Posted by handoftalha on September 12, 2012 in Allegations, Refutations, Theology, Uncategorized And the […]