 | | Dr. Umar Comes to Houston |
Renowned Scholar Comes to Houston:
Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
"Rethinking Islamic Tradition"
University of Houston, Rockwell Pavilion
5.30PM to 8.30 PM University of Houston, Kiva Room (Farish Hall) 9.30AM to 5.30PM
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About the Speaker
Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah is an American Muslim; originally born to a Protestant family. He embraced Islam while studying at Cornell University during his tenure as a Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellow. He subsequently attended the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD with honors in 1978 for a dissertation pertaining to the origins of Islamic Law. He went on to teach at the Universities of Windsor (Ontario), Temple University and University of Michigan from 1977 until 1982, when he left America to teach Arabic in Granada, Spain. In 1984, Dr. Abd-Allah was appointed to the Department of Islamic Studies at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah and taught Islamic Studies and Comparative Religions at the university until 2000. After returning to Chicago, Dr. Abd-Allah went on to work as General Director of the newly-founded Nawawi Foundation and, now teaching and conducting research in Islamic studies and related fields.
"Islam does not merely encourage but requires the creation of a successful indigenous Islamic culture in America." |
