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Rethinking Islamic Reform
- By Oxford University Islamic Society
- Published 09/1/2010
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Oxford University Islamic Society was honoured to have hosted Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson (Zaytuna Institute, USA) and Professor Tariq Ramadan (Oxford University, UK) to participate at this ground-breaking conference.
The conference addressed the phenomena of how, in the post 9/11 world, it has grown to be an axiomatic truth that Islam needs to reform. Whether it is Western policy-makers seeking to protect themselves from Muslim extremists, humanitarian activists fighting to liberate silenced Muslims, or Muslims themselves responding to new paradigms faced in the 21st century, all are agreed that something within Islam needs to change. The question though, is what, and perhaps more pertinently, how?
The distinguished guest speakers are well placed to answer. Invitations for this event extended to ministers, policy advisors, think tanks, journalists, theologians, scholars and other public figures with an interest in the field of Islamic Reform.
The House of Saud
- By Frontline Documentary
- Published 08/31/2010
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USA Muslims: 7th Century Islamic inscriptions on Nevada rocks
- By Ulema uddin
- Published 06/15/2008
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AMERICA IS MY LAND TOO: A patriotic Muslim American is not ’silent anymore. Creeping Sharia in the USA? More like Sleeping sharia in America.
500 American town have Muslim names. Reds have Green Roots. Cherokee Muslims. Mali Muslims visit American. Chinese Muslims. Muslims have been here in America from the begining. They came with Columbus, they came before Columbus and they came after Columbus. Muslim influences are present all over America. California (Caliph Haronia), Alhambra, T Allah Hasee (Tallahassee), Alah Bumya (Alabama), Islamorada, Florida and other names are proof of Muslim influences in America. More than 500 towns are of Muslim origin.Muslims in America before Columbus
A mosque is as American as apple pie. Muslims have been part of America before Columbus. The last Muslim stronghold in Spain, Granada, fell just before the Spanish Inquisition was established in 1492. Non-Christians were forced to either convert to Catholicism to save themselves from the tyranny of the Inquisition or were exiled from the country. Documents exist which prove the existence of immigrant Muslims in Spanish America before 1550.
In 1539 an edict from Spanish King Charles V was put into practice which forbade the immigration of Muslims to settlements in the West. This edict was later expanded to expel all Muslims from overseas Spanish colonies in 1543. The existence of Muslims in overseas islands and regions was known along with the fact that the Spanish king issued such an edict. Again, in many Islamic sources, it is noted that Muslims living in Spain and North Africa made overseas voyages during the Andalusia period. Scientific research on this subject will bring out many documents into the daylight, documents which have escaped the notice of both Muslims in America and those throughout the world, which will perhaps serve, in the future if not immediately, as a starting point for a re-evaluation of the history of America. Recreating a New America as envisioned by our Founding Fathers:-A patriotic American Muslim speaks out
SADAQA AMONG AFRICAN MUSLIMS ENSLAVED IN THE AMERICAS
- By SYLVIANE A. DIOUF
- Published 06/7/2008
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Islam as brought by the West Africans has not survived in the Americas, but its impact has been deep and wide in a variety of ways. Though this phenomenon has not received enough attention yet, it is a crucial element, as stated earlier, in a better understanding of the cultures of people of African descent in the New World. It also gives useful clues on the impact of Islam on its practitioners. It is, furthermore, part of the world-wide history of the religion; and as Islamologists will turn their attention to the story of the African Muslims enslaved in the Americas, much more about Islam and Muslim populations, on a global scale in time and space, will come to light.
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