IIIT Intellectual Panels

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels at the 42st annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America-Muslim American Society (ICNA-MAS) in Baltimore, MD, on Saturday, April 15, 2017. This year, the convention’s theme was “The Quest for True Success: The...

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Autor principal: Hadeel Elaradi
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Publicado: International Institute of Islamic Thought 2017
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Sumario:The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels at the 42st annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America-Muslim American Society (ICNA-MAS) in Baltimore, MD, on Saturday, April 15, 2017. This year, the convention’s theme was “The Quest for True Success: The Divine Message of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.” IIIT’s intellectual panels dealt with a variety of topics. The first session, “The Concept of Madrasa: Context and Reform,” revolved around Ebrahim Moosa’s What Is a Madrasa? (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Moosa (professor, Islamic studies, University of Notre Dame) reminisced about his time as a madrasa student in India, stating: “The way I came into India was in a very pietistic orientation, that Islam was all about piety. India and the madrasas taught me that Islam is about thinking ... piety ... goodness ... making a contribution to the world.” However, he continued, the “madrasas have done a good job in preserving the identity of traditional Islam, but it’s unable to make that identity actually work in the real world. ... and that modern knowledge has been closed off from the lived experience of Muslims.” ...