Hamza Yusuf Essays

  • Analysis Of The Prophet By Khalil Gibran

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    Amongst Khalil Gibran's works of literature, one of the most reputable ones is The Prophet. In this book, Khalil Gibran establishes his prowess as a capable writer on spirituality by shedding analytical light on various everyday matters. In this book, the protagonist, al-Mustafa, is a man who, due to circumstances, had to live in the foreign city of Orphalese for twelve years waiting for a ship that will take him back home. During al-Mustafa's years in the city of Orphalese, he establishes a unique

  • Essay On Dangers Of Journalism

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    Chauncey Bailey. According to cleveland.com he was a reporter, working on that time on a short article about the bankruptcy that was said to be caused by a Black Muslim cult; Yusuf Bey IV. Bailey was shot by a masked man in august 2007in Oakland because of the subject of his article and the murder was done by the men of Yusuf Bey IV ... ... middle of paper ... ...n she used in her article. Journalists around the world face a big number of dangers while working on a particular topic or in a defined

  • Qatar and modernity

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    Qatar is a country that has the largest per capita income in the world. A few decades ago, the now oil and gas rich country could not survive the years of hunger that led to more than 10% of population migrating to neighboring countries. This transition and modernization has been analyzed in the introduction of the book “Qatar: A Modern History” by Allen J. Fromherz. This reaction paper is intended to study his analysis which talks mainly about the absence of the sense of postmodernism in the Qatari

  • Islam Is A Foreign Country Zareena Grewal Analysis

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    In Islam is a Foreign Country, anthropologist Zareena Grewal demonstrates that “the ‘Muslim World’ [consists of] a place and a people outside American geographic and cultural borders” (6). While the term Muslim World calls to mind images of the Middle East, Grewal shows that Muslim identity is based on ‘moral geographies’ that unite Muslims throughout North America, Africa, and Asia. By focusing on American student travelers to Muslim countries, Grewal shows how identity and authority in Muslim American

  • Analysis of How Beliefs Influence Actions and How Actions Influences Belief Based on Islamic Theology

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    Number 15: Narrated Anas: Aaidh ibn Abdualla Al-Qarnee 2002 Don’t Be Sad: International Islamic Publishing House. Bukhari Quran 6:163 Alanam http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/rel-islam0.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day Hamza Yusuf Rethinking Islamic Reform