RIS Day 1 Review

http://mezba.blogspot.ca/2013/12/ris-2014-day-1-review.html?m=1

Video of Dr. Jackson's H.A.R. Gibb Lecture @Harvard: Islamic Law and the State: Then and Now

http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3566

via Najeeb

Video with Dr. Sherman Jackson & Dr. Eddie Glaude: On the Politics of Race and Religion in America Today

On the Politics of Race and Religion in America Today from Muslim Life Program on Vimeo.

Book: God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason

This book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tradition was opposed by both modernists and fundamentalists, resulting in a general collapse of traditional Islamic intellectual life and its replacement by more modern but far shallower forms of thought. However, the resources of this Islamic scholarly tradition remain an integral part of the Islamic intellectual tradition and will prove vital to its revival. The future of Islam, Walbridge argues, will be marked by a return to rationalism.

Now available in paperback from the publisher (Cambridge UP)

Recommended by Shaykh Hamza.

Faraz Khan Art Studio

http://www.farazkhanartstudio.com/

Check out a dear brother's work.

(Video) Ethics | Tariq Ramadan | Oxford Union

http://youtu.be/dZ1R8VsTTAo

‘Neo-Traditionalism’ vs ‘Traditionalism’-Shaykh Abdullah Ali

At times, our scholars at Lamppost Productions and other scholars in the West are derisively referred to as ‘modernists’. This is a term that suggests the rejection of the classical, Islamic intellectual tradition. Is this really a fair way to describe our scholars? One of our scholars, Shaykh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali directly addresses this issue in this thought-provoking response to a question from one of our readers.

 http://www.lamppostproductions.com/neo-traditionalism-vs-traditionalism-shaykh-abdullah-bin-hamid-ali/