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International Institute of Islamic Thought
Reform of Islamic Thought
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Monthly e-Newsletter April 2017
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"The meter, or Qur'anic rhythm, emerges from other subtle factors and elements which our existing critical tools are, in my opinion, still unable to help us pinpoint and define. This observation has been confirmed by a number of Western thinkers who have developed a feel for the Qur'an through their study of it, and who have described the peculiar psychological impact it had on them even though they did not understand what the text meant. Author Jeffrey Lang writes about such thinkers, saying:
As many converts know, one does not have to be a Muslim to feel this intrinsic power of the Qur'an, for many of them chose Islam after, and because of, such moments. Also, many a non-Muslim scholar of the Qur'an has reported it. The British scholar of Arabic, Arthur J. Arberry, recalled how the Qur'an supported him through a difficult time in his life. He stated that listening to the Qur'an chanted in Arabic was, for him, like listening to the beat of his own heart. Fredrick Denny, a non-Muslim writer, recalls the "wonderfully disturbing experience" one sometimes has when reading the Qur'an, when the reader starts feeling "an uncanny, sometimes frightening presence." Instead of reading the Qur'an, the reader begins feeling the Qur'an is "reading" the reader!"
The Miraculous Language of the Qur'an: Evidence of Divine Origin
Bassam Saeh, pp. 35-36
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-56564-665-0
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Adoption, Kafala
& Foster Care
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) held a Fiqh Forum on the timely topic of "Orphan Care from Islamic Perspective: Kafala, Adoption, Foster Care and Beyond" on Thursday, April 13th, 2017.
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The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a screening of the recently released film, The Sultan and the Saint, by Unity Productions Foundation (UPF), on Thursday, April 6.
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Revolutionary Hermeneutics: Translating the Qur'an as a Manifesto for Revolution
SherAli Tareen, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, PA, recently published his article that was partly supported by a IIIT grant.
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Renewal of Islamic Thought: Contemporary Issues
Conference in Honor of Shaykh Dr. Taha Jabir Alwani
(October 23-24, 2017)
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The International Congress on Higher Religious Education
Center for Values Education and Istanbul University
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The Muslim World: Hindu-Muslim Relations
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Hartford Seminary's The Muslim World's Special Issue
Hartford Seminary welcomed a special edition of The Muslim World journal focusing on Hindu-Muslim relations.
The 11 essays in the journal are available at this
link at no cost until Dec. 31, 2017.
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i-epistemology Newsletter
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