Hind Makki is an interfaith and anti-racism educator who holds a degree in International Relations from Brown University. She is the founder and curator of Side Entrance, an award-winning website documenting women’s prayer experiences in mosques, and served on the Islamic Society of North America’s Mosque Inclusion Taskforce. Hind is an advisor to the ISPU project Reimagining Muslim Spaces, consulting with American mosques on gender, economic, and convert diversity. She is an alumna and advisor to the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute and serves on the Consultative Circle to the national interfaith organization, Shoulder-to-Shoulder. In 2018, Hind was featured as one of CNN’s 25 Influential American Muslims. Locally, Hind served on the advisory boards of the Br. Jeffrey Gros, FSC Institute for Dialogue, Justice, and Social Action at Lewis University and the Chicago History Museum’s exhibit “American Medina: Stories of Muslim Chicago.” Hind can be reached at hmakki@aicusa.edu.
Lecture: Modern Muslim Theology in Work and Practice
Speaker: Martin Nguyen
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm talk, including Q & A
Online Platform: Zoom
This book aims to bring Muslim theology into the present day. Rather than a purely academic pursuit, Modern Muslim Theology argues that theology is a creative process and discusses how the Islamic tradition can help contemporary practitioners negotiate their relationships with God, with one another, and with the rest of creation.
Book: Rowman
Speaker Biography
Martin Nguyen is Professor of Islamic Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Fairfield University in Connecticut. His scholarship revolves around Muslim theology, ethics, spirituality, Qur’anic studies, and the intersection of race and religion. His publications include Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar: Abū’l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī and the Laṭāʾif al-ishārāt (Oxford, 2012). Presently, he is working on theological responses to global mass displacement and modern structural racism. Prof. Nguyen is also co-leading several initiatives, including the “Constructive Muslim Thought and Engaged Scholarship” seminar with the American Academy of Religion and the “Muslim Moral Theology in Conversation with Future” project with the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. More locally, he is involved with a local Asian American community organization called AAPI New Haven.
Save the Date: Explore AIC
Date: Saturday, December 4, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM CT
In-person event, Registration Required
Free Parking
American Islamic College
640 W Irving Park Rd
Chicago, IL 60613
Free parking at 640 W Irving Park Rd (front of building) and 613 W Bittersweet Pl (rear of building)
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POSTPONED – Ibn Taymiyya Intensive Study Weekend
With
Professor Yahya Michot [Hartford Seminary, USA]
Professor Jon Hoover [University of Nottingham, UK]
Dr Yasir Qadhi [Islamic Seminary of America]
And hosted by Andrew Booso [Islamic Courses]
Date: Saturday, March 5 – Sunday, March 6, 2022
Time: 10am – 5pm (Saturday) and 10am – 4pm (Sunday)
Pricing
One Day Only
Students: $30 (present Student ID and ticket)
General Admission: $50
Livestream: $40
Both Days
Students: $50 (present Student ID and ticket)
General Admission: $80
Livestream: $70
Professor Yahya Michot (Hartford Seminary, USA)
Professor Yahya M. Michot is one of the world’s leading experts on Ibn Taymiyyah. He was director of the Centre for Arabic Philosophy at University of Louvain in Belgium where he has delivered courses in Arabic, History of Arabic Philosophy, History of Muslim Peoples and Institutions of Islam, and Commentary on Arabic Philosophical Texts. His main field of research is the History of Muslim Thought with special reference to Avicenna (Ibn Sina), his predecessors and his impact on Sunni thought and Ibn Taymiyyah. His recent book is “Ibn Taymiyya: Against Extremisms. A Reader”. He is the founder and director of the collection ‘Sagesses Musulmanes’. Currently he is a retired Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Macdonald Center, Hartford Seminary, USA. For a full list please visit: www.hartsem.edu/faculty/yahya-michot
Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham, UK)
Professor Jon Hoover is a specialist on Ibn Taymiyyah. He majored in Theological Studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Indiana, followed by PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Birmingham. He has taught Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut and is currently teaching, researching and supervising Islamic Studies at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Nottingham,UK. His expertise and areas of special interest include Islamic intellectual history, medieval Islamic theology and philosophy, the thought of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and Christian-Muslim relations. Some of publications, articles and journals include: Ibn Taymiyya’s Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism (2007). Ibn Taymiyya. Oxford Bibliographies Online.(2012) Ḥanbalī Theology Oxford Handbooks Online. (2014) Christian-Muslim relations: a bibliographical history. (2012) For a full list please visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/theology/people/jon.hoover
Dr Yasir Qadhi (Islamic Seminary of America, USA)
Yasir Qadhi is the Resident Scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center. He is also the Dean of The Islamic Seminary of America. Yasir graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah. After completing a diploma in Arabic, he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences, and then completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah. He then returned to America, and completed a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has authored several books, published academic articles, and appeared on numerous satellite and TV stations around the globe. His online videos are of the most popular and highly-watched Islamic videos in English.
Andrew Booso (Islamic Courses / Safeenah Fellowship, UK)
Andrew Booso was born and raised in London, England. After completing a Law degree at the London School of Economics, he has pursued traditional Islamic studies (with pivotal guidance from Shaykh Akram Nadwi) and has edited numerous texts for various Islamic publishers, including Islamic Texts Society and Turath. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Al-Salam Institute, seminar coordinator for Islamic Courses (London) and the director of the Safeenah Fellowship. He had been working on a new edition of the late Shaykh Mustafa al-A‘zami’s History of the Qur’anic Text and edited a number of translated texts associated with the Deoband movement by Ashraf Ali Thanawi, Husain Ahmad Madani, Abdullah Gangohi, Taqi Usmani, Salman Mansurpuri and the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind.
Audience:
Open to the general public and intermediate and advanced students of Islamic Sciences, Islamic Studies, post-graduates and academics.
Pre-requisites:
TBA
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POSTPONED – Journey Through the Quran
With main presenter: Shaykh Abu Aliyah (The Jawziyyah Institute, UK)
Date: March 26-27 and April 2-3, 2022
Time: 10am – 6pm each day
This course gives an overview of the structure, themes, and guidance contained in each of the 114 chapters of the Noble Qur’an. This was achieved through the systematic study of each of the chapters.
In this course, we will look at:
- Surah names and their relation to the historical context of their revelation (Asbab al-Nuzul)
- The inter-textual relationship and coherence (Nazm) between verses of each Surah and the relationship with preceding/foll