Book Review - Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel

After I heard Eboo Patel speak at the Civic Engagements lecture at ISNA (ok, ok, I was only in there for the last 10 minutes but he closed the lecture with style with his final comments), I wanted to check out his book Acts of Faith in which he describes his trying to find his [...]

Overall Thoughts on ISNA 2007

The last two blog posts were about specific sessions that I went to but instead of giving reviews of all the individual sessions I attended, I’d like to give my thoughts about ISNA 2007 in general.
Alhamdullilah, I thought it went pretty well.
A theme that I found while spending most of my time in Meet the [...]

ISNA 2007 - The Root Causes of Terrorism Session Review

One session at ISNA that was worthy of the main hall but was instead relegated to one of the smaller rooms was the session entitled The Root Causes of Terrorism with speakers Dr. Parvez Ahmed of CAIR, Dr. Robert Pape, and Dr. Hatem Bazian. The three of them discussed terrorism and whether or not Islam [...]

ISNA 2007 - Lost History, Session and Book Review

One of the sessions I previously called out was one of the Meet the Author sessions at ISNA regarding the book Lost History; The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists, which I was able to attend this past weekend. In the session, author Michael Hamilton Morgan discussed the book at great length with [...]