http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW_TjseW4oA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Habib Umar bin Hafiz in Canada الحبيب عمر بن حفيظ في كندا
See Habib Umar giving a brother his shahadah at the end of this clip:
Our Better Angels: Resources for the Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
Texts, Talks, Music from the three-part series exploring Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions on Tragedy, Mourning, and Healing.
http://jtsa.edu/x15344.xml
http://jtsa.edu/x15344.xml
Re-Broadcast of Occupy the Mind: Progressive Moral Agenda for the 21st Century at The Riverside Church
http://www.ezstream.com/play/index.cfm?id=28144DADDD
http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/news/article.php?id=451
http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/news/article.php?id=451
On Sunday, January 22nd, The Riverside Church hosted "Occupy the Mind: Progressive Moral Agenda for the 21st Century" featuring the "Shared Reflections and Conversations With": Dr. Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary President Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Editor of Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner, Prof. Richard D. Wolff (U Mass), Prof. James Vrettos (John Jay College) and Riverside's Interim Senior Minister, Rev. Stephen H. Phelps.
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to campaign finance reform, from racial justice in criminal law to Constitutional protection in the fight against terrorism. A singular institution – part think tank, part public interest law firm, part advocacy group – the Brennan Center combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communications to win meaningful, measurable change in the public sector.http://www.brennancenter.org/
https://www.facebook.com/BrennanCenter?sk=info
According to documents uncovered by the Brennan Center, the NYPD showed a virulently anti-Muslim film to nearly 1,500 officers during its training curriculum, reportsThe New York Times. When the story first broke in January 2011 the NYPD said the film, "The Third Jihad," was shown only a "couple of times." "The NYPD plays a vital role in protecting all New Yorkers from terrorism. These documents raise important questions. They show the need for oversight of these activities," said the Brennan Center. Read all the documents here. Read the New York Times' follow-up story and editorial.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Urged to Resign After Police Conceal Role in Anti-Muslim Film
democracynow.org - Representatives from the New York City Muslim community, together with local ethnic and interfaith groups, gathered at City Hall Thursday calling for the resignation of New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly and police spokesperson Paul Browne after it was revealed an anti-Muslim film, "The Third Jihad," was screened to nearly 1,500 officers during training. After initial denials, the NYPD admitted the officers were shown the film in training and that Kelly gave the filmmakers a 90-minute interview. Kelly has now apologized. The controversy comes at a time when relations between the police and the Muslim community are already strained due to recent revelations that the police department has operated a secret surveillance program targeting Muslim neighborhoods. We speak with Arab-American activist Linda Sarsour, who was honored last month at the White House as a "Champion of Change."http://youtu.be/P7bofb02LcU
Friday, January 27, 2012
Dr. Nasr on Muslim Contributions to Mathematics
The Muslims were drawn to the study of mathematics from the very beginning to a large extent because of the "abstract" nature of the Islamic revelation and the love that Islam created in the minds of its followers for the doctrine of unity and for a vision of the universe understood mathematically as mathematics is comprehended in the traditional sense of the term. That is why the Muslims made remarkable contributions to many domains of mathematics.
In the field of arithmetic, the most important achievements of Muslims were perhaps the adoption of the Sanskrit numerals and the later transformation which they brought about upon it, creating as a final product what has come to be known as Arabic numerals in Europe and the use of the decimal system. The famous Arabic numerals appear in the Kitab al-hisab ("Treatise on Arithmetic") by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarazmi, from Khwarazm, one of the Persian cities east of the Caspian Sea. This work was rendered into Latin thereby bringing the Arabic numerals to the West and causing one of the most important transformations within medieval Western civilization. In addition to the research in the field of number theory, decimal fractions and the computation of numerical series, the whole tradition in a sense culminating with Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid al-Kashani, the author of Miftah al-hisab ("The Key to Arithmetic") who lived in the eighth Islamic century. He is the real discover of decimal fractions and the maker of devices to carry out mathematical calculation.
As far as geometry is concerned, Muslim mathematicians began where the Greek mathematicians and geometers had left off. They further developed plane and solid geometry and systematized mathematical equations for the solution of many geometric problems, creating a relationship between algebra and geometry which was to be pursued later by Descartes and which became one of the most important elements in the development of modern mathematics. One of the problems which the Islamic geometers and mathematicians studied very carefully was the fifth postulate of Euclid concerning the fact that one and only one parallel line can be drawn to an existing line from a point outside of that line, a problem the proof of which was debated over the centuries. Both Khayyam and Tusi wrote treatises on the subject, indicating that this fact must be taken as a postulate and cannot be proven by Euclidean geometry itself. The criticism of the subject opened the door to a path which led finally to the development of non-Euclidean geometry in the West in the nineteenth century.
One of the fields of mathematics which was especially developed by Muslims is trigonometry. It was the Muslim mathematicians who for the first time systematized the six trigonometric functions which to this day bear the mark of their Arabic origin in Western languages, the word sine being a translation of jayb from Arabic (sinus in Latin meaning literary pocket or cavity which is what jayb means in Arabic). The first treatise on trigonometry which deals with the subject as an independent branch of mathematics is usually attributed to Nasir al-Din al-Tusi although in reality the first independent work on trigonometry as an independent field goes back to al-Biruni.
The science of algebra is also one in which the Muslims not only made contributions but in a sense they created a new field by drawing from certain elements of Greek mathematics as developed by Diophantus and also from certain ideas of Indian mathematics. The very word algebra is of course of Arabic origin, going back to another famous treatise of al-Khwarazmi entitled Jabr wa'l-muqabalah which was rendered into Latin and whsoe title became the origin of the word algebra. The name of the author al-Khwarazmi itself left its indelible mark upon Western languages by being used in certain languages such as Spanish for arithmetic or for number while it subsists to this day in the English language in the form of algorism. The Muslims developed algebra from its humble origins in the third Islamic century to the masterpiece of 'Umar Khayyam written in the sixth Islamic century, his work Algebra being perhaps the most perfect treatise on algebra written before modern times. In this book Khayyam dealt with equations up to the third degree and systematized the solution of quadratic equations.
Another branch of mathematics which one no longer associates directly with mathematics as such was music. Theoretical music was considered, following the teachings of Plato and Pythagoras, as a branch of mathematics by Muslims and appears often as such in the Islamic classifications of the sciences. Many of the great Islamic philosophers such as al-Farabi and Ibn Sina were interested in theoretical music and very elaborate treatises were written by them as well as by others like al-Urmawi and al-Mawsili dealing both with the theory of Arabic and Persian music and relating the study of music to other sciences and the study of mathematics to proportion and harmony which are the foundations of music. In the classical treatises dealing with mathematics, often a section is devoted to music as we see in the works of Ibn Sina and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi.-Seyyed Hossein Nasr, A Young Muslims's Guide to the Modern World, pgs. 88-90.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Laptops reduce male fertility say researchers
Been telling dudes not to put their laptops on their laps for 'a minute' now!...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGZ7UmroFk4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC)
http://maclc1.wordpress.com/who-we-are-maclc/
The MUSLIM AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES COALITION (MACLC) is a New York-based coalition of citizens, community members, spiritual leaders, organizers, advocates, attorneys, and groups whose mission is to organize around and give voice to absent perspectives on issues of national security, counterterrorism, law enforcement, and civil rights, as they affect Muslim communities in post-9/11 New York.
Initially created in response to the New York City Police Department’s troubling 2007 report, “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,” MACLC is concerned by the extent to which local, state, and federal government and law enforcement entities have criminalized Muslim communities in the name of national security through broad-based racial, religious, national security, and gender profiling.
MACLC is also disconcerted by law enforcement’s adoption of unsubstantiated and discriminatory radicalization theories, the predatory policing and prosecution models on which they draw, and the resulting aggressive use of informants and surveillance in Muslim communities.
MACLC believes that government and law-enforcement must be held accountable and respect the rights of Muslims and Muslim communities to practice their faiths, express their political opinions, organize, and live with respect and dignity.
Through legislative, legal, media and other forms of advocacy, MACLC works to ensure that government and law enforcement engage with Muslim communities in meaningful and non-coercive ways. MACLC also supports community organizing efforts focused on holding government and law enforcement accountable.
"The Irony of Democracy" with Imam Zaid Shakir at Zaytuna College.
JOIN US LIVE: "The Irony of Democracy" with Imam Zaid Shakir at Zaytuna College. 4pm (PST) [7 PM (EST)] Wednesday, January 25, 2012. "Like" the Zaytuna College Facebook page and click the link.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zaytuna-College/264566099252?sk=app_4298760509
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zaytuna-College/264566099252?sk=app_4298760509
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - The Way Forward 2/3
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdsrAE1FB4c&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"Strength in Character" - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH8lXNHv1dc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Monday, January 23, 2012
الحبيب عمر : الحياة بالإستجابة لهادي الطريق
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myx97vA0P1E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The Islamic Center at NYU is Moving This Monday! Important info on our new space
http://www.icnyu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=301&Itemid=1
View from the new center: http://instagr.am/p/i6vth/ via KL via Jay Dabhi ma sha Allah
View from the new center: http://instagr.am/p/i6vth/ via KL via Jay Dabhi ma sha Allah
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will provide the general public an opportunity to examine materials from the Malcolm X collection. The Malcolm X collection is unique in that it contains a wide range of speeches, sermons, radio broadcasts, diaries, correspondence, and other documents handwritten by Malcolm X or typed and edited at his direction. Most significantly, Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will offer the public fresh new insights into the nature of his thoughts and development, as well as his multifaceted, at times seemingly contradictory, persona and personality.
Download the Malcolm X: A Search for Truth exhibition brochure by clicking here.
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