Hamza Yusuf – Islam & the West

Hamza YusufNovember 19, 20078 min0 comments

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In this powerful lecture, Imam Hamza Yusuf speaks candidly about two forms of extremism threatening the world: the indiscriminate violence carried out by a fringe minority in the name of Islam, and the political and military extremism he argues is destabilizing American society from within. Drawing on Quranic principles and Prophetic warnings, he calls on Muslims to unequivocally condemn terrorism while also challenging his audience to critically examine issues of global justice, poverty, and the misuse of power.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the Western world. Born Mark Hanson in Washington State in 1958, he embraced Islam in 1977 and spent over a decade studying the traditional Islamic sciences in the UAE, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, most notably under the Mauritanian sage Murabit al-Hajj. He is the co-founder and president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California — the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States — and has translated numerous classical texts, including "The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi" and "Purification of the Heart." His lectures on spirituality, classical scholarship, and the crisis of modernity have shaped a generation of Western Muslims.

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