Dawud Wharnsby with Nader Khan - Bismillah LIVE in 1997

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt53FU9Nar8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

An Intimate Conversation With DR. SHERMAN JACKSON hosted by USAMA CANON

http://vimeo.com/43815641

Ta'leef Collective presents "An Intimate Conversation" with DR. SHERMAN JACKSON and USAMA CANON (Ta'leef Collective Founding Director).

Usama Canon interviews Dr. Sherman Jackson about his new book "Sufism for Non-Sufis." Dr. Jackson discusses the need for the Muslim community to address the issues surrounding the rectifying and reforming our character. Dr. Jackson contends that unless we confront the issues surrounding the refinement of the self and obedience to Allah, that very little will change in our individual or collective body.

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via Dustin

"Selected Islamic Wisdoms" - English Translation & Arabic Text

"Selected Islamic Wisdoms", is a collection of utterances of sages and general wisdoms gathered from historical sources within the Islamic tradition. The author, Shaikh Abdur Rahman Tahir 'Ajeb, was born in Somalia in the early 1940s and moved to Egypt with his family at the age of 10. He later moved to the U.S. for medical treatment and passed away in December 2011. Translated by NYU alumnus Khurram Tai, the book is intended to provide a culturally-enriching view of the Islamic tradition to a broad, multi-faith audience.

http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=6498

MSA Chaplaincy One Year Strong - Dr. Ali Mermer at Queens College

http://www.theknightnews.com/2011/11/15/msa-chaplaincy-one-year-strong/

Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus

It's out ma sha Allah

http://www.amazon.com/Sufism-Non-Sufis-Allah-al-Sakandaris-al-Arus/dp/0199873674/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1337982452&sr=8-3

Future of Kalam

http://www.kalamresearch.com/component/content/article/38-kalam-workshop.html#report

Kalam has always been a key Islamic science and it was only in the 20th century that the discipline became discredited in the wake of puritanical propaganda. For centuries, however, it served to buttress the faith from the challenges of its times; its role is ever more urgent today when there is desperate need for intellectual sophistication and coherency in belief. The development of the Kalam tradition has been seriously hampered in the face of the systemic transformations that took place in the post-colonial period in the Muslim world, which saw the dismantling of much of its traditional learning centres, and the subsequent rise of political and puritanical forms of Islam, at odds with the orthodox framework of the Islamic tradition, leaving no room for theological and spiritual refinement. The modern period, and the subsequent monopoly of discourse at the hands of Islamists and puritans, effectively put an end the notion of a civilisation in Islam. Without an internal intellectual coherence, modern developments in Muslim thought and society are but a pastiche of ideas unable to hold together in a meaningful manner. 

Today, the developments in the various fields of human and natural sciences and in the arts call for an urgent and serious engagement by Muslims. The only way this will be possible is through a revival of the Kalam tradition, though broadened to incorporate a much wider theological enterprise than previously that can once again make sense of the world we live in and which also bridges the gap between being and existence, thought and action, between learning centres and their communities. Issues related to evolution, ethics, pluralism, inter-faith, environment, quantum physics, etc, cannot be dealt with on purely legal terms, but must be engaged through a systematic theological, rational, spiritual, ethical and legal vantage point. If the idea of an Islamic civilization is to be rekindled then all of its fundamental sciences, from theology to art, must also be revived. Without them we will simply not have the basic tools to probe the burning questions of the age. The theological enterprise is therefore an urgent one.

ICNYU Summer Intensives

http://www.icnyu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309&Itemid=226

Ha-Mim: Iman studies based on the methodology of observation and confirmation.

http://ha-mim.org/

Audio recordings of discussions with Dr. Ali Mermer are available here ma sha Allah.

At N.Y.U., Worshiping Baseball, for Credit - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/us/from-baseball-insight-into-god-at-new-york-university.html

Faiza Ali Uses Faith to Unite Religious Coalitions - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/us/faiza-ali-uses-faith-to-unite-religious-coalitions.html?_r=3