El-Sayed, Mamdani and the Future of Muslims in the West

Yasir QadhiOctober 30, 202678 min0 comments

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In this wide-ranging OnePath Podcast conversation, Dr. Yasir Qadhi joins host to discuss the rise of Muslim politicians like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, the aspirations and responsibilities of Muslim minorities in Western countries, the debate around hijrah, and the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Drawing on pragmatic Islamic principles, Dr. Qadhi encourages Muslims to move beyond online division, engage meaningfully in their communities, and approach politics with realistic wisdom rather than utopian idealism.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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