Dr. Jackson received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan. From 1987 to 1989, he served as Executive Director of the Center of Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo, Egypt. He is the author of several books, including&nbsp;<em>Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shih&acirc;b al-D&icirc;n al-Qar&acirc;f&icirc;</em>&nbsp;(E.J. Brill, 1996),&nbsp;<em>On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Ab&ucirc; H&acirc;mid al-Ghaz&acirc;l&icirc;&rsquo;s Faysal al-Tafriqa</em>&nbsp;(Oxford, 2002),&nbsp;<em>Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection</em>&nbsp;(Oxford, 2005)&nbsp;<em>Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering</em>&nbsp;(Oxford, 2009), and most recently&nbsp;<em>Sufism for Non-Sufis? Ibn &lsquo;Ata&rsquo; Allah al-Sakandari&rsquo;s Taj al-&lsquo;Arus</em>&nbsp;(Oxford, 2012).

Dr. Jackson is a co-founder, Core Scholar, and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), an academic institution where scholars, professionals, activists, artists, writers, and community leaders come together to develop strategies for the future of Islam in the modern world.

Additionally, Dr. Jackson is a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, former President of the Shari&rsquo;ah Scholars&rsquo; Association of North America (SSANA) and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). He has contributed to several publications including the Washington Post-Newsweek blog, On Faith, and the Huffington Post. Dr. Jackson is listed by the Religion Newswriters Foundation&rsquo;s ReligionLink as among the top ten experts on Islam in America and was named among the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Amman, Jordan and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

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King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture, and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity

Asifa Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S.constitutional law, with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.
                

Quraishi-Landes writes on comparative legal theory and Islamic law. Recent publications include &ldquo;The Separation of Powers in the Tradition of Muslim Governments,&rdquo; and &ldquo;What if Sharia Weren&rsquo;t the Enemy: Re-Thinking International Women&rsquo;s Rights Activism and Islamic Law.&rdquo; Currently, she is working on &ldquo;A New Theory of Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.&rdquo; This project seeks to articulate a new constitutional framework for Muslim majority countries that will answer both the Muslim impulse for a sharia-based government, as well as secular concerns that a non-theocratic system is important in order to respect human and civil rights.
                

Professor Quraishi-Landes holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and other degrees from Columbia Law School, the University of California at Davis, and the University of California at Berkeley, and has served as law clerk in the United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has served as a Public Delegate on the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (2010), the Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and as advisor to the Pew Task Force on Religion &amp; Public Life. She is currently on the governing board of the Association of American Law Schools&rsquo; Section on Islamic Law, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), and Muslim Advocates. She is an affiliate of the Muslim Women&rsquo;s League, past President and Board Member of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, a Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and a member of the &ldquo;Opinion Leaders Network&rdquo; for the British Council&rsquo;s &ldquo;Our Shared Future&rdquo; project.

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Visiting Professor (University of Wisconsin – Madison Law School)

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (Wymann-Landgraf) is an American Muslim, born in 1948 to a Protestant family in Columbus, Nebraska. He grew up in Athens, Georgia, where both parents taught at the University of Georgia. His father taught Veterinary Medicine and Organic Chemistry, while his mother&rsquo;s field was English. In 1964, his parents took positions at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where his grandfather had been a professor emeritus of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Abd-Allah did his undergraduate work at the University of Missouri with dual majors in History and English Literature. He made the Dean&rsquo;s list all semesters and was nominated to the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society.

In 1969, he won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and entrance to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to pursue a Ph.D. program in English literature. Shortly after coming to Cornell, Dr. Abd-Allah read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which inspired him to embrace Islam in early 1970. In 1972, he altered his field of study and transferred to the University of Chicago, where he studied Arabic and Islamic Studies under Dr. Fazlur Rahman.

Dr. Abd-Allah received his doctorate with honors in 1978 for a dissertation on the origins of Islamic Law, Malik&rsquo;s Concept of &lsquo;Amal in the Light of Maliki Legal Theory. From 1977 until 1982, he taught at the Universities of Windsor (Ontario), Temple, and Michigan. In 1982, he left America to teach Arabic in Spain. Two years later, he was appointed to the Department of Islamic Studies at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, where he taught (in Arabic) Islamic studies and comparative religions until 2000. During his years abroad, Dr. Abd-Allah had the privilege of studying with a number of traditional Islamic scholars.

He returned to Chicago in August 2000 to work as chair and scholar-in-residence of the newly founded Nawawi Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. In conjunction with this position, he is now teaching and lecturing in and around Chicago and various parts of the United States and Canada, while conducting research and writing in Islamic studies and related fields. He recently completed a biography of Mohammed Webb (d. 1916), who was one of the most significant early American converts to Islam. The book was released September 2006 under the title A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb (Oxford University Press). Dr. Abd-Allah is presently completing a second work entitled Roots of Islam in America: A Survey of Muslim Presence in the New World from Earliest Evidence until 1965 and is also updating his dissertation for publication.

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International Scholar / Visiting Professor

Hadia Abdullah&nbsp;holds a Doctoral Degree in Medicine (M.D.) from Aleppo University in Syria and practiced medicine in Damascus from 1992 to 2001. For the past ten&nbsp;years, Hadia has taught Arabic in both the public and private sector to native speakers and non-native speakers.</p>
                <p>She currently teaches Arabic at Bayan Claremont and serves as the program coordinator for the Southern California Arabic Language Teacher Council (SCALTC), a pilot project whose goal is to support the teaching of Arabic in Southern California and to provide resources to Arabic language educators from a variety of institutions.

<h2>COMMUNITY SERVICE &amp; INTERFAITH WORK:</h2>
- American Muslim Health Professionals: Member 
- Islamic Center Southern California: Social Services Committee Chair 2009-2012
<h2>PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:</h2>
-ATCSC Arabic Teacher Council of Southern California: Program Coordinator   
-NATA National Arabic Teacher Association: Member 
- ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Member
- SIG Arabic Special Interest Group: Member
<h2>EDUCATION</h2>
Doctor of Medicine &ndash; Aleppo University, Syria

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Arabic Instructor

Her latest work,&nbsp;<em>Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States</em>&nbsp;(NYU Press 2016), is an ethnography on Islam and hip hop that examines how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness challenge&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;reconstitute US racial orders. Su&rsquo;ad&rsquo;s written work on Islam and hip hop is accompanied by her performance ethnography,&nbsp;<em>Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life</em>.&nbsp;<em>Sampled</em>&nbsp;is a one-woman solo performance designed to present and represent her research and findings to diverse audiences in a way that disrupts accepted narratives on race and gender, religion, popular culture and citizenship in the contemporary United States. Her publications include &ldquo;Muslim Youth Cultures&rdquo; (<em>The Cambridge Companion to American Islam,&nbsp;</em>2013), &ldquo;Rep that Islam: the Rhyme and Reason of American Muslim Hip Hop&rdquo;(The Muslim World, 2007), and &ldquo;Black Arabic: African American Muslims and the Arabic language&rdquo; which appears in the edited volume<em>&nbsp;Black Routes to Islam</em>&nbsp;(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Additional forthcoming publications include &ldquo;All the Men are Muslim, All the Americans are White, But Some of Us are Brave&rdquo; in&nbsp;<em>With Stones In Our Hands: Reflections on Race, Muslims, and U.S. Empire</em>&nbsp;(University of Minnesota Press) and &ldquo;Africa as Tradition in African American Muslim Identity&rdquo; in&nbsp;<em>Handbook on African American Islam&nbsp;</em>(Oxford University Press).

In line with her commitment to public scholarship, Su&rsquo;ad leads a digital humanities project,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sapelosquare.com/">www.sapelosquare.com</a>, the first website dedicated to the comprehensive documentation and analysis of the African American Muslim experience. She has also written for&nbsp;<a href="http://theroot.com/">TheRoot.com</a>, the Washington&nbsp;Post,&nbsp;<a href="http://trans-missions.org/">trans-missions.org</a>&nbsp;and the Huffington Post and has appeared on Al Jazeera English. Additionally, Su&rsquo;ad is a Senior Project Advisor for the US Public Television award-winning documentary,&nbsp;<em>New Muslim Cool</em>&nbsp;and her poetry was featured in the anthology&nbsp;<em>Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak</em>.

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Associate Professor of American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Professor Aghaie studies modern Iranian history, Middle Eastern history and Islamic rituals. He is author of &ldquo;The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi&rsquo;i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran,&rdquo; which explores patterns of change in Shi&rsquo;i symbols and rituals over the past two centuries, revealing how modernization has influenced the societal, political and religious culture of Iran. He received his Ph.D. in History from UCLA.

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Associate Professor of Middle East Studies University of Texas at Austin

Asad Q. Ahmed is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.A. in 2000 from Yale University, majoring from the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Literature. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 2007 from the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University.

Ahmed specializes in early Islamic social history and pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, with a special focus on the rationalist disciplines, such as philosophy, logic, and astronomy. Though he has worked extensively on Islamic intellectual history of the so-called classical period (ca. 800-1200 CE), his current focus is the period ca. 1200-1900 CE, especially with reference to the Indian subcontinent. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz</em>&nbsp;(University of Oxford, 2011) and&nbsp;<em>Avicenna&rsquo;s Deliverance: Logic</em>&nbsp;(Oxford University Press, 2011). He is also the co-editor of&nbsp;<em>The Islamic Scholarly Tradition</em>&nbsp;(Brill, 2010). He has published several articles in the aforementioned fields and in usul al-fiqh and kalam. His general training also includes Graeco-Arabica, classical Arabic poetry and poetics, and hadith and Qur&rsquo;anic Studies.

Ahmed is the editor-in-chief of the&nbsp;<em>Oxford Studies in Post-Classical Islamic Scholarship</em>&nbsp;(OUP) and co-editor of the journal&nbsp;<em>Oriens</em>. He is also co-editor of the Qur&rsquo;an and Early Islam sections of&nbsp;<em>The Marginalia Review of Books</em>. He currently chairs the Mellon Seminars called Graeco-Arabic Rationalism in Islamic Transmitted Sciences: The Post-Classical Period, held regularly at UCB.

Ahmed is very happy to receive queries and applications from students wishing to pursue doctoral studies in his fields of interest and expertise and he welcomes manuscripts of books, articles, and reviews for publication in the three venues noted above.

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Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies University of California, Berkeley

Ovamir Anjum is Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of History at the University of Toledo. He is an intellectual historian of Islam. His academic interests are united by a common theoretical focus on epistemology, or notions of reason and reasoning, in various domains of Islamic thought, ranging from politics, law, theology, and spirituality (including Sufism). Anjum&rsquo;s work is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of classical Islamic studies, political theory, and cultural anthropology. His recent monograph is&nbsp;<em>Politics, Law and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment</em>&nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, 2012), which explores the nexus of politics (siyasa), law (sharia), theology (kalam) in classical Islam, with comparative theoretical interest in Western Thought.

His current research is to bring his historical studies to bear on issues in contemporary Islamic thought and movements. He is researching theoretical developments in the wake of the Arab Uprisings of 2011, and accordingly editing a forthcoming volume tentatively titled &ldquo;Islam and the Nation State in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Traditions, Transitions, and Trajectories.&rdquo; He is also near-completing a decade-long project to translate a popular Islamic spiritual and theological classic,&nbsp;<em>Madarij al-Salikin</em>&nbsp;(<em>Ranks of Divine Seekers</em>) by Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 1351), which, upon completion, would be the largest single-author English translation of a classical Islamic text.

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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion University of Toledo, Ohio

Salam is the President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. For the past 25 years, Salam has had the opportunity to speak to congregations at community-sponsored events, temples, synagogues, churches, high schools, and college campuses. He has written extensively on Islam, human rights, democracy, Middle East politics, the Balkan Crisis, and the Transcaucus conflict.

His articles and interviews have appeared on such prominent newspapers as The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The LA Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today. He has appeared on radio and TV talk shows, including The Dennis Miller Show, Tonight with Deborah Norville, Politically Incorrect, and has been featured on C-SPAN and NBC. Salam has also been deeply involved in interfaith activities.

Salam served as co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition to Heal Los Angeles, which formed as a result of the Los Angeles uprising in the Summer of 1992. Salam also works as an advisor to several political, civic and academic institutions seeking to understand the role of Islam and Muslims in America and throughout the world.

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President – Muslim Public Affairs Council

Metra was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Her parents immigrated to the US when she was two years old. After she completed her undergraduate studies at UCI she began working closely with refugee women and children from Afghanistan. The experience inspired her to apply for her Master&rsquo;s in Marriage and Family Therapy at Alliant International University, Irvine. She became a certified domestic violence counselor and worked for two years at a domestic violence shelter. She was accepted into the doctoral program in Psychology at Alliant International University, Irvine. She was one of 20 nationwide doctoral students selected throughout the country by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists for the minority fellowship program. Through this program she was on full scholarship and attended extensive seminars and trainings by insightful therapists in the country. She completed her dissertation, which focused on creating a curriculum to enhance cultural diversity training for mainstream therapists working with the Muslim population.

Metra has a profound research interests in studying minorities&rsquo; mental health issues, identity formation, spirituality in therapy, substance abuse, marginalization of minorities, couples therapy, parenting issues, PTSD, ADHD, and children of minorities who suffer from autistic spectrum disorders.

She was the school counselor at New Horizon Elementary School for 3 years and currently works with children and adults in a private practice setting in Tustin. In her practice she utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy approaches as well as the Humanistic model. She has always had an entrepreneur&rsquo;s vision and as a result of her love of education she is the new business owner of the Mission Viejo Montessori. In her spare time, she raises money for Women&rsquo;s organizations in Afghanistan, serves on the Pillars Academy School Board and teaches parenting classes as well as other seminars in masjids throughout southern CA.

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Marriage & Family Therapist / Visiting Professor

Ihsan Bagby is currently Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of&nbsp;Kentucky. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He obtained a Ph.D. from University of&nbsp;Michigan in Near Eastern Studies (1986), focusing on classical Islamic Studies and more&nbsp;particularly Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh). His dissertation reviewed the classical&nbsp;legal theory of maslahah (the overall purposes of the Law).

His research for the last 15 years has focused on Muslims in America. In 2001 he&nbsp;published the results of the first comprehensive study of mosques in America, entitled&nbsp;<em>The Mosque in America: A National Portrait</em>&nbsp;(available at www.cair-net.org). Based on&nbsp;the 2001 study, Dr. Bagby published four articles, including &ldquo;Imams and Mosque&nbsp;Organizations in the United States,&rdquo; in Muslims in the United States, and &ldquo;The Mosque in&nbsp;the American Public Square,&rdquo; in Muslims&rsquo; Place in the American Public Square. In&nbsp;April 2004 he published the results of his Detroit Mosque Study, entitled A Portrait of&nbsp;Detroit Mosques (available at www.ispu.us). Based on that study he has written&nbsp;&ldquo;Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Detroit Mosques&rdquo; in Passing on the Faith. In&nbsp;2007 he conducted a survey of 25 representative American mosques and mosque leaders,&nbsp;which led to an article entitled, &ldquo;The American Mosque in Transition: Assimilation,&nbsp;Isolation or Insulation&rdquo; in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. In 2011 he&nbsp;conducted another comprehensive study of American mosques which resulted in three&nbsp;monographs entitled The American Mosque 2011. In 2013 he conducted a needs&nbsp;assessment of about 350 mosques which are associated with ISNA/NAIT, and published&nbsp;the monograph,&nbsp;<em>A Needs Assessment of ISNA-NAIT Associated Mosques</em>. He is presently&nbsp;working on a book on African American Muslims and a short biography on Prophet&nbsp;Muhammad (saws) for new Muslims.

He is the Chair of ISNA&rsquo;s Masjid Development Committee which is working to develop&nbsp;for masjids guidelines and recommendations, identify best practices, and organize&nbsp;workshops for masjids.

He serves as a Board member of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) and the&nbsp;Islamic Seminary Foundation. Locally in Lexington, he is a member of the Board of&nbsp;Masjid Bilal and the Chair of SHARE Lexington, a Muslim social service center.

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Associate Professor of Islamic Studies University of Kentucky, Lexington

Jonathan AC Brown received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr. Brown has studied and conducted research in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Indonesia, India and Iran. His book publications include&nbsp;<em>The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon</em>&nbsp;(Brill, 2007),<em>Hadith: Muhammad&rsquo;s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World</em>(Oneworld, 2009),&nbsp;<em>Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction</em>(Oxford University Press, 2011) and&nbsp;<em>Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet&rsquo;s Legacy</em>(Oneworld, 2014). He has published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and Pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic Law. Dr. Brown&rsquo;s current research focuses on modern conflicts between Late Sunni Traditionalism and Salafism in Islamic thought.

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Associate Professor of Islamic Civilization Georgetown University, Washington DC

Zareena Grewal is Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Middle East Studies at Yale University. Trained as a historical anthropologist, she is the author of&nbsp;<em>Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority</em>, which was awarded one of the Victor Turner Ethnographic Writing awards. She was the first Fulbright fellow to be sponsored by Al-Azhar University. She also directed and produced the documentary film&nbsp;<em>By the Dawns Early Light: Chris Jackson&rsquo;s Journey to Islam</em>, which had a national broadcast on the Documentary Channel. She is currently conducting historical and ethnographic research for her next book on the Qur&rsquo;an in the American imagination, tentatively titled &ldquo;Is the Quran a Good Book? Islam and the Limits of American Religious Tolerance.&rdquo; She lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband Hamada Hamid Altalib and their three children.

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Associate Professor of American Studies/Religious Studies Yale University

Dr. Hamid is the Co-Director of the Veteran Administration (VA) Epilepsy Center of Excellence in West Haven, CT. He has established a Neurobehavioral clinic, where he provides clinical care for veterans who suffer from emotional distress and/or behavioral problems associated with neurological conditions. His research explores psychiatric co-morbidity of neurologic disease. He is currently the primary investigator of a study examining the neurologic substrates of depression in people with epilepsy.

<h2>EDUCATION</h2>
- B.A. &ndash; University of Michigan (1996)
- D.O. &ndash; Michigan State University (2001)
- M.P.H. &ndash; New York University (2008)
- M.P.H. &ndash; New York University (2008)
- Residency &ndash; New York University, Neurology/Psychiatry (2003 &ndash; 2008)
- Intern &ndash; Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, Internal Medicine (2001 &ndash; 2002)
- Fellowship &ndash; Yale University School of Medicine, Epilepsy (2008 &ndash; 2010)
- Board Certification &ndash; Psychiatry, Board Certified (2009)
- Board Certification &ndash; Neurology, Board Certified (2009)
- Board Certification &ndash; Behavioral Neurology &amp; Neuropsychiatry, Board Certified (2012)

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Asst. Professor, Yale School of Medicine

Özgür Koca (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies and Philosophy at Bayan Islamic Graduate School. He also holds a B.A. degree in Physics, and, before entering the field of Islamic studies, taught physics and mathematics at the high school and college level in different countries. Koca&rsquo;s work focuses on the intersection of Islamic theology (kalam), philosophy (falsafa), and spirituality (Sufism) in classical and post-classical Islam. He also examines the implications of these legacies for the realities of modern Islam. This implicates issues of the religion and science debate, pluralism, interreligious discourse, and related areas of inquiry.

He is the author of&nbsp;<em>Islam, Causality, and Freedom: From the Medieval to the Modern Era</em>&nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, 2020, forthcoming). He was awarded the&nbsp;<em>Fisher Faculty Teaching Award&nbsp;</em>in 2015 for excellence in teaching. He is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled: &ldquo;the Principles of Sufi Metaphysics.&rdquo;

<h2 data-fontsize="18" data-lineheight="27">Education</h2>
B.S. Physics &ndash; Marmara University<br />M.A. Philosophy &ndash; Fatih University<br />Ph.D. Religious Studies &ndash; Claremont Graduate University

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Associate Professor of Islamic Studies

Edina Lekovic is MPAC&rsquo;s Public Affairs Consultant. Previously, as Director of Policy and Programming, she oversaw strategic initiatives in government and policy, media and communications, and leadership development. From 2004-2010, Edina served as MPAC&rsquo;s Communications Director, and has appeared regularly in major media outlets, including CNN. MSNBC, Fox News, CBS Television, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times.

A recent appointee to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti&rsquo;s Service Cabinet, Edina has been committed to promoting relationships between diverse Angelenos for nearly 15 years. As a co-founder and the current chair of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, Edina is proud to have been part of a impactful program who&rsquo;s high school dialogue program was named Gov. Jerry Brown&rsquo;s top interfaith group in 2013.

Edina joined the faculty of Bayan Claremont, part of the Claremont School of Theology, as an Adjunct Professor in Fall 2013, where she teaches &ldquo;Religious and Spiritual Leadership in a Muslim Context.&rdquo; Edina has spoken in hundreds of national and international conferences, community events and interfaith dialogues on a variety of issues related to American Muslims. She has also had the opportunity to participate in a United Nations program on &ldquo;Confronting Islamophobia&rdquo; and the International Conference of Muslim Young Leaders, which served as a precursor to the annual conference of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

She is co-founder and graduate of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute and also co-founded Elev8, an arts-based youth leadership development program. She has an M.A. in Communication from Pepperdine University and a B.A. in American Literature &amp; Culture from UCLA, where she also served as the Editor in Chief of the Daily Bruin.

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Public Affairs Consultant, MPAC

Brie Loskota is the managing director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. In this capacity, she oversees the strategic planning and daily operations of an interdisciplinary research center that conducts 25 research and community-based projects each year. She contributes to raising and managing CRCC&rsquo;s annual budget of $5 million. Additionally, she serves as program officer of the USC Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative, a $3.5 million global program sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation to transform the study of one of the world&rsquo;s fastest growing religious movements.
                

Ms. Loskota consults with federal, state, and local government agencies on a variety of issues including disaster preparedness and response, developing faith-based/public partnerships, mental health, and bridging diversity. She speaks and writes frequently on topics such as interfaith engagement, faith-based human services, and religious identity among post-Boomers. She is a regular contributor to Trans/missions, the USC Knight Chair blog on media and religion. She has also written for the Huffington Post, The Brookings Institute and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She also lectures on religion and society, and religion in Los Angeles and has spoken at conferences and meetings sponsored by the Asia Foundation, the US-China Education Trust, Yale University, Union of Reform Judaism, and the University of Dayton, among others.
                

Leadership development and capacity building for faith communities remains one of Ms. Loskota&rsquo;s central interests. She is co-founder and special advisor to CRCC&rsquo;s American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, a program that equips individuals between the ages of 25-40 with skills to enhance civic participation in their communities. Ms. Loskota also served on the executive committee of the Passing the Mantle Clergy and Lay Leadership Institute, a USC program to develop civic leadership among African American clergy and lay leaders and serves on the executive committee of the Faith Leaders Institute, an alliance of Latino and African American clergy run by the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement.
             

Ms. Loskota serves on a dozen boards and advisory committees focusing on understanding and enhancing the role of religion and religious communities in the public square. She is a member of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
                

Prior to joining the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Ms. Loskota served as the summer program director of the Face to Face/Faith to Faith Summer Institute, as an evaluator and strategic planner for faith-based organizations, a high school teacher, and as a consultant on market research and business management.
                

She received her M.A. degree from Hebrew Union College &ndash; Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, studied Hebrew at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and completed her B.A. in history and religion from the University of Southern California.

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Co-Director, American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture

Joseph Lumbard,&nbsp;associate&nbsp;professor of classical Islam, researches Islamic intellectual traditions with an emphasis on Sufism and Islamic philosophy. He is the editor of &ldquo;Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition&rdquo; (World Wisdom, 2004), a collection of essays that examines the religious, political and historical factors that have led to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
                

Lumbard teaches at the&nbsp;Hamad Bin Khalifa&nbsp;University in Doha, Qatar, and is currently researching the development of Sufi theories of love in the early Islamic period and their influence on the Persian Sufi tradition.
          

He completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 2003.

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Assoc. Professor of Islamic Studies Hamad Bin Khalifah University, Qatar

Hamid Mavani is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Bayan Islamic Graduate School. His expertise in Islamic Studies stems from both academic training at Universities as well as specialized theological training at the traditional seminaries in the Muslim world. His primary fields of interest include Islamic legal theory, women and Shi&lsquo;i law, Islamic theology and political thought, Islam and secularity, intra-Muslim discourse, and environmental ethics. He is the author of a book published by Routledge in June 2013 titled,&nbsp;<em>Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi&lsquo;ism: From Ali to Post-Khomeini</em>&nbsp;and is co-author with Dr. Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi on a work in progress on Islamic legal theory, to be published by IIIT. Dr. Mavani&rsquo;s scholarship also includes translations of Islamic texts from Arabic and Persian into English. In this regard, he finished translating from Persian a ground-breaking work by Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar on Islam, apostasy, and blasphemy (under contract with the Edinburgh University Press).

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Rami Nashashibi has served as the Executive Director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) since its incorporation as a nonprofit in January 1997. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago and has been an adjunct professor at various colleges and universities across the Chicagoland area, where he has taught a range of Sociology, Anthropology, and other Social Science courses.
           

He has worked with several leading scholars in the area of globalization, African American studies and urban sociology and has contributed chapters to edited volumes by Manning Marable and Saskia Sassen. Rami has lectured across the United States, Europe, and Asia on a range of topics related to American Muslim identity, community activism and social justice issues, and is a recipient of several prestigious community service and organizing honors.
              

Rami and his work with IMAN have been featured on many national and international media outlets including the BBC, PBS and a front page story in the Chicago Tribune. In 2007&nbsp;<em>Islamica Magazine</em>&nbsp;profiled Rami as being among the &ldquo;10 Young Muslim Visionaries Shaping Islam in America&rdquo; and in 2009, Chicago Public Radio selected Rami Nashashibi as one of the city&rsquo;s Top Ten Chicago Global Visionaries.
              

Rami was named one of the &ldquo;500 Most Influential Muslims in the World&rdquo; by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in concert with Georgetown&rsquo;s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He was named a White House &ldquo;Champion of Change&rdquo; in 2011, and was also invited by the governor of Illinois to serve on the Commission for the Elimination of Poverty and as a member of the Governor&rsquo;s Muslim Advisory Council.
           

Rami lives with his wife and three children on Chicago&rsquo;s Southwest Side.

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Executive Director, Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

Necva Ozgur is the founder and Executive Director of MERIT and the founding School Head of New Horizon School Pasadena, NHSP. Necva obtained an M.S. degree from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Istanbul and later, an M.A. degree in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in California, where she wrote her thesis on Strategies to Achieve Excellence in an Islamic School.
                


Necva played a pivotal role in establishing NHSP and lead the school to get its accreditation from WASC and CAIS. With the leadership of Necva and a skilled administrative team, NHSP earned the Blue Ribbon recognition from the Department of Education. Necva was also instrumental in launching New Horizon School Irvine and Minaret Academy in an advisory role.
                

Necva has served as a trustee of several non-profit organizations, including the New Horizon School Board, Islamic Center of Southern California Board, California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and Council of Spiritual and Ethical Education (CSEE), and was a member of The Non-Profit Executive Forum and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Necva is currently serving on the Islamic Society of North America&rsquo;s (ISNA) Education Forum and the Counsel of Islamic Schools of North America (CISNA) board as vice-chair. She previously chaired the Education Council of Islamic Center of Southern California, and the Board of Bayan.
              

After serving NHSP for twelve years, Necva established a resource center called MERIT, Muslim Educators, Resource, Information and Training Center in 2005. MERIT promotes excellence in American Muslim schools and empowers Muslim educational leaders. This organization plays a vital role in providing professional growth opportunities for boards of directors, administrators, and faculty, and it develops professional and educational resources and provides networking opportunities for Muslim Educators.
             

Necva is currently providing Islamic schools with board training, principal coaching, accreditation, school establishment, development and evaluation and consulting. She has been part of many school accreditation and chaired accreditation teams on behalf of different accrediting agencies. Currently, she is chairing a committee for a pioneer project
              

&nbsp;of developing Islamic school standards for joint accreditation with AdvancED. Necva was invited two years in a row by the US State Department to travel to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to provide workshops on &ldquo;How to Raise Public Awareness Campaign,&rdquo; &ldquo;Social Marketing,&rdquo; &ldquo;Parenting,&rdquo; &ldquo;Volunteer Management,&rdquo; &ldquo;Leadership Training&rdquo; and more.
               

Necva also developed an adult education program for the Islamic Center of Southern California, which is called the Academy of Islamic Thought (AIT) www.academyofislamicthought.org.

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Executive Director, MERIT

Dr. Hadi Qazwini is an international scholar, educator, and public speaker. For over 15 years, he has educated diverse audiences across the United States and other parts of the world on topics related to Islam and Muslims in a variety of settings, including academic conferences, college and university campuses, schools, places of worship, and media outlets. 



             


Dr. Qazwini completed advanced traditional Islamic studies training at the Seminary of Qum under the guidance of prominent scholars. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California Irvine, a M.A. in Theology, Islamic Studies and Leadership from Claremont School of Theology and Bayan Islamic Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in Religion with a concentration on Global Islam from the University of Southern California. 


Dr. Qazwini's areas of scholarly interest and research are in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on theology, law, and Imami Shiʿism. His publications have appeared in leading academic venues, such as Islamic Studies, The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Shii Studies Review, and Edinburgh University Press.


In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Qazwini serves several organizations in the areas of higher education and international development and relief. He has traveled extensively across the globe and currently resides in Southern California with his family.

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International Scholar and Educator

I am a Lecturer at Santa Clara University in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and an affiliated faculty member to the Arabic, Islamic, and Middle East Studies Program. Primarily, I teach Modern Arabic and the Levantine dialect, as well as topics on Arabic linguistics and Arab culture. I completed the BA in Linguistics at Indiana University in 2004 and the MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures in 2007. I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Linguistics from Indiana University where my dissertation was on Arabic phonology. While my primary research is in Arabic linguistics and pedagogy, I also translate from Arabic to English the works of selected Muslim linguists and Sufis from the early modern and modern periods.


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Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Literature Santa Clara University

Nadia Roumani is the Co-Founder and Director of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI). Nadia has worked with a wide range of organizations over the past decade to better understand the needs of Muslim communities across the United States, and develop strategic, structural solutions to address these needs. In addition to her work with AMCLI, Nadia has been involved with research projects and initiatives with the University of Southern California, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.
                

Nadia has also worked with several grantmaking foundations that are supporting Muslim communities in America and/or addressing US-Muslim World Relations. Nadia is currently the Consultant Program Officer for the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art&rsquo;s Building Bridges Program, which aims to improve American&rsquo;s understanding of Muslim societies through arts and media. Nadia has also consulted for the Four Freedoms Fund, Rothschild Foundation, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Jewish Funds for Justice.
                

Nadia has also worked extensively in the field of international economic development. She was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, where she co-founded the Global Policy Innovations Program. Prior to that, between 2000 and 2004, Nadia was the Assistant Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a project directed by Economics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. She was also a Junior Associate in Stiglitz&rsquo;s office at the World Bank from 1999-2000. Nadia also consulted for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the United Nations Development Program.
                

Nadia is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Nadia received her master&rsquo;s degree from Columbia University&rsquo;s School of International and Public Affairs, and her bachelor&rsquo;s degree in economics and international relations from Stanford University.


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Omid Safi is one of the leading Muslim public intellectuals. He is a Chair and Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, and Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC). He previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in contemporary Islamic thought and classical Islam. Omid is an award-winning teacher and speaker, and has received teaching awards at Colgate University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina.
                


He is the editor of the volume &ldquo;Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism.&rdquo; His last book was published by HarperCollins, titled &ldquo;Memories of Muhammad,&rdquo; and deals with the biography and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.
               

He has been among the most frequently sought speakers on Islam in popular media, appearing frequently in the New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, NBC, CNN and international media. He has recently been designated as a lead Islam writer for the Religion News and Huffington Post.

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Associate Professor of Islamic Studies Duke University

Jihad  Turk  is  the  founding  President  and  Dean  of  Bayan  Islamic  Graduate  School,  a preeminent Muslim institution of higher education offering  accredited  Master’s  degrees  in  the fields  of  Islamic  Studies,  Leadership,  Education,  and  Chaplaincy.


Jihad previously served as the Imam/Director of Religious Affairs at the Islamic Center of Southern California, LA’s oldest and largest mosque. In light of his experience, he is a sought after national speaker on issues related Islam, Muslims in America, Muslim Reform Movements, Ethical Leadership, and Spiritual and Identity Formation of Youth.


Having been born to a Muslim-Palestinian father and a Christian-American mother in Phoenix Arizona, Jihad spent his college years traveling the Muslim world and exploring his roots and the Islamic tradition. He spent time in both the Islamic University of Medina where he studied Arabic and Islamic Studies, and in Iran where he studied Farsi at the University of Tehran and in Qum. He completed his undergraduate study at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his B.A. degree in History and Arabic. Jihad completed his Master’s degree at the University of Texas, Austin in Arabic and Islamic law and jurisprudence. In 1999, Jihad began pursuing doctoral studies in Islamic Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught as adjunct faculty for many years at UCLA and at Southwestern School of Law. Currently,  Jihad is working on a doctorate in education at the University of Southern California.

For the past 15 years, Jihad has dedicated himself to improving relations between the Muslim and Christian communities of Southern California. Jihad co-founded the Muslim-Christian Consultative Group comprised of major SoCal Muslim leaders and representatives of mainline protestant denominations as well as the Catholic archdiocese. This group pairs up mosques and churches nationally.

He also co-founded the Greater Los Angeles Muslim Jewish Forum, which brings together major leaders of both faiths to improve relations and to address issues of common concern. Jihad is a founding board member of a Muslim-Jewish peace organization, ReGeneration, which is developing a model for education that nurtures understanding and peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Additionally, Jihad has committed himself to building bridges across faith communities to collaboratively address issues of homelessness and poverty.

Jihad has been consulted by the White House and has traveled around the world (Indonesia, Morocco, Qatar, and France) for the US State Department to speak to Muslim communities abroad and represent the American Muslim Community. Jihad is a member of the USINDO, an NGO that aims to strengthen ties between the US and Indonesia.



Jihad has been profiled on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, regularly appears on NPR and other news outlets, has appeared numerous times on the History Channel and was featured in a documentary produced by the Annenberg Foundation’s www.explore.org about the Abrahamic faiths, entitled “Traveling with Jihad.”


Jihad has received awards for his religious leadership by Congresswoman Jane Harmon, the Valley Interfaith Council, and the South Coast Interfaith Council, has been acknowledged as a Local Hero in 2008 by the World Festival of Sacred Music and was recently recognized as one of the 500 Most Influential people in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal.


<h2>Community Service &amp; Interfaith Activity</h2>
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<div>UC President&rsquo;s Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion: Advisory Member</div>
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<div>Muslim Jewish High School Leadership Council: Advisory Board Member</div>
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<div>Islamic Society of North America: West Zone Rep. &amp; Majlis al-Shura Member</div>
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<div>Levantine Cultural Center: Advisory Board Member</div>
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<div>ReGeneration: Board Member &amp; Founding Board Member</div>
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<div>Muslim Youth Camp: Instructor</div>
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<div>The Christian-Muslim Consultative Group: Co-Chair &amp; Co-Founder</div>
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<div>UMMA Community Clinic: Advisory Member</div>
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<h2>Education</h2>
<p>B.A., University of California, Berkeley<br />M.A., University of Texas at Austin<br />Executive Ed.D. (In Progress, Expected to Complete In 2023), University of Southern California </p>

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Founding President 

Suhaib Webb is a contemporary American Muslim Imam, thought leader and educator. After his conversion to Islam, Webb left a career in the music industry and pursued his passion in education. He graduated with a Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Education from University of Central Oklahoma. After serving as Imam and resident scholar in various communities across the country, Imam Webb enrolled at the world-renowned Al-Azhar University to study Islamic Law.
                


After years of study in the Arabic Language he was appointed head of the English translation Department at Dar al-Ifta al-Masriyah as a Mufti (Jurist). Imam Webb has completed the memorization of the Quran and holds a number of licenses from traditional scholars in various Islamic sciences. Imam Suhaib Webb strongly advocates for an authentic articulation of the American Muslim identity. He is a proponent of understanding the various challenges facing the American Muslim community and finding solutions based on an authentic American Muslim experience.
            

In 2010 his website&nbsp;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141006015224/http://www.suhaibwebb.com/">SuhaibWebb.com</a>&nbsp;won the Brass Crescent&rsquo;s best &ldquo;Blog of the Year&rdquo; award. Recently he was part of a delegation that visited Auschwitz to develop better understanding between Muslim and Jewish Americans. He was named by the British Government as a &ldquo;Moderate Muslim leader&rdquo; and was named in 2010 as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.

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International Scholar

Tahara Akmal earned an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Pastoral Care & Counseling, and Islamic Studies from the Claremont School of Theology. She became a Chaplain Intern at The Ohio State Medical Center, a Chaplain Resident at UCLA Health, and then an advanced Chaplain Resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She went on to serve as an Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Certified Educator and Chaplain at Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences. Tahara currently serves as the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Program Manager at Medstar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. She is the first Muslim woman in the United States to become certified as a CPE Educator by ACPE. Tahara is a Ph.D. student at Alvernia University, where she is researching Chaplaincy and Leadership.


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Educator; Faculty Member 

Karima Diane Alavi is a curriculum specialist, educator and author. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in History, Middle East and East Asian Studies from Kent State University and Shiraz University in Iran. She went on to receive her Master’s Degree in History, Middle East and Asian Studies from Kent State. Karima also took one year of post-graduate studies in East Asian Art History at Kansas University. As a graduate student, she received one of ten Bicentennial scholarships to study language, history and art in Iran. Early in her career, she traveled and taught in the Middle East. She taught Islamic Studies for seven years at the renowned Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. She also directed the Dar al-Islam Summer Teacher’s Institute in Abiquiu, NM for many years. Karima continues to travel in educational endeavors, speaking at conferences and events both nationally and internationally. She has presented at NESA (Near East, South Asia Teachers’ Conference) in Cairo, Egypt and Bangkok, Thailand; numerous state, regional and national Social Studies Conferences; The Library of Congress; The Smithsonian Institution; Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; Middle East Studies Association. She is the author of Ramadan: More Than Fasting (Journal of the Near East, South Asia Council of Overseas Schools, Spring, 1998),  What Are American Children Learning About Islam? (The Muslim Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3, July, 1998), The Emergence of Renaissance: Cultural Interactions Between Europeans and Muslims (co-authored with Susan Douglass, Council on Islamic Education, 1999), Life in the House of Wisdom in “Al-Ma’mun, Caliph of Baghdad” (Calliope, Cobblestone Publications, 2000), At Risk of Prejudice: Teaching Tolerance About Muslim Americans (Social Education Magazine, National Council for the Social Studies,  2001), Turning to Our Faith in Response to the Events of September 11 (America Magazine, a Catholic Publication and ABC television, Albuquerque. October, 2001), The History of Islamic Science, Technology and Medicine, part of the four-volume reference text, “World Eras: The Rise of Islam” (Gale Publications, June, 2002), Rihla, The Islamic Concept of Travel for the Sake of Knowledge, lesson plan (PBS web-site, The Islam Project), Hijab, Islamic Dress for Men and Women, lesson plan (PBS web-site, The Islam Project), The Qur’an: Islam’s Holy Scripture (Calliope Books. December, 2003).


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