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by mesutDecember 2, 2024 Hassan Institute, Lectures, Past Events, Past Lectures0 comments

Islam in Indonesia: Pesantren and Its Role in Nurturing Interfaith-Based Peacebuilding

Indonesia, with a population of approximately 280 million people, is the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, comprising around 11-12% of the global Muslim population. It is also the largest democracy among Muslim nations, known for its stability and peaceful coexistence. Indonesia is a nation of remarkable diversity, with hundreds of languages, ethnic groups, and beliefs coexisting across its vast archipelago.

Despite this diversity, Indonesia has managed to create a harmonious society, emphasizing moderation, tolerance, and respect for diversity. Central to this model are pesantren, Islamic boarding schools that serve as both centers of religious learning and community development. These institutions teach not only classical Islamic texts but also contemporary knowledge, equipping students to address modern societal challenges while maintaining their faith. Furthermore, pesantren play a key role in promoting peace by facilitating interfaith dialogue, mediating conflicts, and contributing to social cohesion.

Through this distinctive approach, Indonesia demonstrates how Islam can adapt to a diverse cultural landscape, fostering peace and inclusivity while staying true to its core principles. Pesantren, as both educational institutions and community centers, continue to play a vital role in nurturing interfaith harmony and promoting a peaceful society in Indonesia, which is recognized as one of the most peaceful and stable Muslim-majority democracies in the world.

Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM Light Reception | 6:30 PM Talk – Central Time (Chicago)
Venue: American Islamic College, Livestream available – must register for link

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Speaker: Edi Setiawan M.Pd

Director of Markazul Qur’an, Pondok Pesantren Khairul Ummah Riau Indonesia
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Speaker: Darul Ma'arif Asry, M.A.

Al-Ikhlas Ujung-Bone Islamic Boarding School/Media Manager of Nasaruddin Umar Office Sulawesi Selatan
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Moderator: Wardania Dewi Fitrotul Chusna

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by mesutNovember 21, 2024 Events, Past Events0 comments

Bearing Witness: A First Hand Account of Gaza

Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis, an obstetrician and gynecologist who volunteered at the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza this summer. Hear a fist-hand account of what she witnessed. She is one of forty-five U.S. doctors, surgeons and nurses who signed an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris demanding an immediate ceasefire and an international arms embargo of Israel. She appeared on Democracy Now! on July 26. Joining her will be Dr. Feryal Salem from American Islamic College.

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM Central Time (Chicago)
Venue: The Mecca Center, 16W560 91st St, Willowbrook, IL 60527

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Speaker: Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis, MD

Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Gaza Hospital Volunteer

Moderator: Dr. Feryal Salem

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, American Islamic College

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by mesutNovember 13, 2024 Latest News0 comments

AIC Welcomes A Delegation of Educators from Indonesia

We are both honored and excited to be hosting an Indonesian delegation of 20 religious teachers and scholars who will be with us through December for a study exchange program. The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) is working with us as we journey through this 2-month non-degree certificate program titled “Religion, Peace, and Encounter: An AIC Certificate Program in Interreligious Peacebuilding.”

The program offers structured academic coursework and experiential learning opportunities through coordinated site visits to academic, civic, and religious facilities, as well as planned dialogue events. The 20 Indonesian delegates will meet with and learn from expert faculty and dedicated leaders about inter-and intra-religious understanding, cross-cultural dialogue, conflict management, and peace-building initiatives. In turn, we are learning from them about their experience with religious moderation and madrasa education in Indonesia.

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by mesutNovember 7, 2024 Events, Past Events0 comments

Community Events: Learning Circle on Spiritual Abuse and Sexual Violence

Join Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Dr. Rania Awaad, Sh. Rami Nsour and Dr. Mariam Sheibani

Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024
Time: 8:00 PM Central Time (Chicago)
Venue: Zoom

A collaboration between Hurma Project, Maristan and the Rahmah Foundation

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by mesutOctober 28, 2024 Events, Past Events0 comments

The Palestine Sermons: A Conversation with Khaled Abou El Fadl

Join AIC and Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl for a conversation on his latest book, The Palestine Sermons, a collection of twenty-five sermons and one public address that Prof. Abou El Fadl delivered between April 2018 and May 2024 in relation to ongoing developments relating to Israel-Palestine. Engaging current events in Palestine from an Islamic theological perspective, Prof. Abou El Fadl challenges scholars to re-examine their ethical responsibilities today: “Gaza is a watershed moment. Everything has to change.”

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM Central Time (Chicago)
Venue: Zoom

Registration:
Free, registration required.

Speaker: Dr. Khalid Abou El Fadl

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world’s leading authorities on Shari’ah, Islamic law and Islam, and a prominent scholar in the field of human rights. He is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches International Human Rights; Islamic Jurisprudence; Political Asylum and Refugee Law; The Trafficking of Human Beings: Law and Policy; Political Crimes and Legal Systems; and Muslims, Race and Law. He was also formerly the Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA. He is the founder of the Institute of Advanced Usuli Studies (“The Usuli Institute”), a non-profit educational institute dedicated to ethics, beauty and critical thinking in the Islamic intellectual tradition. Read More >

Host: Dr. Mahan Mirza

Dr. Mahan serves as Visiting Vice President for Academic Affairs at AIC and as the Executive Director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas Austin, his MA from Hartford Seminary in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, and his PhD in Religious Studies (specializing in Islamic Studies) from Yale University. His doctoral research was on the intellectual world of al-Biruni, an 11th-century Muslim scientist from Central Asia, and Dr. Mahan has an abiding research interest in field of cosmology. At Notre Dame, he was responsible for implementing Madrasa Discourses, a project led by Prof. Ebrahim Moosa to advance scientific and theological literacy at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Prior to that, he served as Dean of Faculty at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. Throughout his career, he has taught a wide range of courses in Arabic and Islamic studies, western religions, history of science, and global affairs, along with foundational subjects in the Liberal Arts, including logic, rhetoric, ethics, and politics. Dr. Mahan has also edited two special issues of The Muslim World and has served as assistant editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. His recent articles include “Deed over idea: Toward a shared Caliphate” (2022), “Between Tyranny and Anarchy: Islam, Covid 19, and Public Policy” (2023), and “Divine Command and Religious Liberty: A Theological Reflection on Islamic Constitutionalism” (2024). Read More >

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by mesutSeptember 26, 2024 Lectures, Past Events0 comments

Gaza in our Hearts: A Conversation with Eman Abdelhadi and Shabana Mir

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: In-Person, American Islamic College

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Speaker: Dr. Eman Abdelhadi

Our society is increasingly composed of multiple subcultures—ethnic, religious and political. How do these subcultural communities reproduce themselves across generations? Why are some more successful at this than others? Professor Abdelhadi’s current book project answers these questions using the case of second-generation immigrant Muslim Americans. I trace individuals’ relationships with Muslim communities across the life course, showing the ways in which attachment is gendered at individual, household and institutional levels.

My research speaks to my broader interest in how religion influences everyday life, including political and economic outcomes. I have investigated this question from multiple angles using mixed methods. One set of projects examines when, where and how religion matters for women’s participation in the public sphere through paid employment. Another set focuses on the relationship between religious orthodoxy and political conservatism in the United States. My research has been published in Social Forces, Socius, and other social science publications.

Speaker: Dr. Shabana Mir

Shabana Mir is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Undergraduate Studies. She teaches Islamic Studies, Gender Studies, Research Methods, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Muslim American and Muslim World Literature. She is the author of the award-winning book Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, published by the University of North Carolina Press (2014). The book has received the Outstanding Book Award from the National Association for Ethnic Studies and the Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association (2014). Shabana taught at Millikin University, University of Southern California online, Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, Eastern Illinois University, and the International Islamic University (Islamabad). She received the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her doctoral dissertation from the American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education (2006). She conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Washington, DC area, as Visiting Researcher at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. She also has an M.A. in English Literature from Punjab University, Pakistan and an M.Phil. in Education from Cambridge University (U.K.). Dr. Mir has lived, studied, and taught in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Pakistan. She has worked as a curriculum designer, residence hall director, retreat leader, faculty development expert, and research consultant in a variety of settings. Shabana has written academic chapters, journal articles, children’s literature, a blog, and, of course, her book. She is an international public speaker on gender, religion, education, and politics. She speaks English, Urdu and Punjabi, and some Arabic and Farsi.

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by mesutSeptember 5, 2024 Events, Past Events0 comments

Educating for a New Era

American Islamic College is honored to invite you to a night of celebration of our renewal and accreditation. Join us as we share our vision of the transformational promise of Muslim higher education and highlight the community partnerships that made this milestone possible. We look forward to an evening of fellowship that promises to nourish the body and soul.

Educating for a New Era

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Doors Open - 5:00 PM

Drury Lane, 100 Drury Ln, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

Keynote Speaker

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JOHN ESPOSITO

Professor of Religion and International Affairs, and Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University

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Sheikh Hassan Aly

Member of the AIC Board of Trustees

Biography

Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. Past President of the American Academy of Religion and Middle East Studies Association of North America, Esposito has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of State and other agencies, European and Asian governments, corporations, universities, and media worldwide and ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders and E. C. European Network of Experts on De-Radicalisation. He has received honorary doctorates from University of Toronto, the University of Sarajevo to name but a few, as well as the American Academy of Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion, Pakistan’s Quaid-i-Azzam Award for Outstanding Contributions in Islamic Studies, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Outstanding Teacher Award and Georgetown’s Career Research Achievement Award. Esposito’s more than 50 books include: Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (with Dalia Mogahed), The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Islam and Politics; Makers of Contemporary Islam and Islam and Democracy (with John O. Voll), Islam: The Straight Path; Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam (with J. Voll); and Women in Muslim Family Law. Esposito’s books and articles have been translated into more than 45 languages. Esposito’s interviews and articles with newspapers, magazines, and the media in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of London, CNN, ABC Nightline, CBS, NBC, and the BBC. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Dr. Jeanette P. Esposito.

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by mesutMay 28, 2024 Lectures, Past Events0 comments

Lecture: Religious Authority in Contemporary Islam and Digital Media Disruptions

Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: In-Person & Livestreamed

Registration:
Free, registration required.

Speaker: Ibrahim N. Abusharif

Ibrahim N. Abusharif, PhD, is an associate professor in residence in the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program. His fields of research include narrative journalism, religious studies, and the decolonization of storytelling. Specifically, his academic interests include the study of the intersections of religion and media, particularly digital media disruptions and their effects on contemporary religious authority. He also researches the origins, promulgation, and effects of key journalistic framing terminologies used in prominent Western news sources in their coverage and reportage of the Middle East and Muslim minorities in the West.

Born and raised in Chicago, he studied the biological sciences as an undergraduate, and later he received his master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and his doctorate in religious and Islamic studies from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

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by mesutMay 22, 2024 Latest News0 comments

AIC Welcomes Dr. Mahan Mirza, Visiting Vice President for Academic Affairs

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Mahan Mirza to the talented, diverse, and growing AIC team. Dr. Mahan serves as the Executive Director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at the University of Notre Dame. The Ansari Institute is part of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, where he also serves as a Teaching Professor. Acting as a living bridge between Notre Dame and AIC, Dr. Mahan will continue to direct the Ansari Institute while assuming his new responsibilities as AIC’s chief academic officer in 2024-2025. Like AIC, Notre Dame is a faith-based institution that fosters academic freedom, celebrates diversity, and advances social justice as it seeks “to create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good” (https://dulac.nd.edu/university-mission-and-vision/mission/). We look forward to fruitful collaborations in the many areas where our institutional missions and visions align, in sha’ allah. As a graduate of Notre Dame myself, I am particularly excited about the possibility of such collaborations.

Dr. Mahan earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas Austin, his MA from Hartford Seminary in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, and his PhD in Religious Studies (specializing in Islamic Studies) from Yale University. His doctoral research was on the intellectual world of al-Biruni, an 11th-century Muslim scientist from Central Asia, and Dr. Mahan has an abiding research interest in field of cosmology. At Notre Dame, he was responsible for implementing Madrasa Discourses, a project led by Prof. Ebrahim Moosa to advance scientific and theological literacy at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Prior to that, he served as Dean of Faculty at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. Throughout his career, he has taught a wide range of courses in Arabic and Islamic studies, western religions, history of science, and global affairs, along with foundational subjects in the Liberal Arts, including logic, rhetoric, ethics, and politics. Dr. Mahan has also edited two special issues of The Muslim World and has served as assistant editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. His recent articles include “Deed over idea: Toward a shared Caliphate” (2022), “Between Tyranny and Anarchy: Islam, Covid 19, and Public Policy” (2023), and “Divine Command and Religious Liberty: A Theological Reflection on Islamic Constitutionalism” (2024).

Dr. Mahan comes to AIC at a critically important time. With our academic accreditation now secured, he will, in sha’ allah, help to guide the process of growing the College into a vibrant American university that is proudly Muslim, firmly committed to the benefit of all of humankind, and deeply conscious of our responsibilities as stewards of the creation. Welcome, Dr. Mahan!

Timothy J. Gianotti, Ph.D.
President and Acting Provost

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by mesutMay 21, 2024 Lectures, Past Events0 comments

Lecture: Chicago History Museum’s Chicago Sacred Iniative

Join Rebekah Coffman for a presentation on the Chicago Sacred initiative at the Chicago History Museum. This discussion will explore how religion is central to the unique urban history of Chicago, share CHM’s approach to religious histories, and describe methods for partnering in telling accurate and authentic religious and community stories through collections, exhibitions, digital initiatives, and programs.

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Virtual on Zoom

Registration:
Free, registration required.

Speaker: Rebekah Coffman

Rebekah Coffman is a historian, preservationist, and curator currently serving as curator of religion and community history at the Chicago History Museum where she leads the Chicago Sacred initiative. Her interdisciplinary work is at the intersection of religious identity and the built environment and explores themes of tangible and intangible heritages in material and visual culture through place-based, community-centered approaches.

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