Connecting to Fitrah – Abdal Hakim Murad – 2019 Ramadan Moment 1 by Cambridge Muslim College

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Professor Omid Safi speaks at CMC about the love-based devotion and poetry that has always been at the heart of the Islamic tradition, while presenting some of the masters of this path, with special attention to Mawlana Rumi, ‘Attar, Ahmad Ghazali, and Kharaqani.

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For many today, World War I in the Middle East brings to mind T.E. Lawrence and the 1962 Hollywood blockbuster movie “Lawrence of Arabia”. In it we see an eccentric Englishman racing across the Arabian desert on camelback, his native robes flying leading a band of bellowing Arab bedouin against the Turks, raiding their camps, blowing up their trains and telegraph lines. Since then, Lawrence’s exploits in the 1916-1918 desert war have become legend, heralded in numerous books, articles and movies. In contrast, the wartime activities of Sir Mark Sykes are virtually unknown, although his actions had far greater consequences during the war and its aftermath. Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes–Picot Agreement was written to correct that.

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Cambridge Muslim College & Sa’adah present a book launch of Haroon Sugich’s latest book ‘Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption’.

‘Hearts Turn’ is a singular and gripping exploration of the act of ‘tawba’, a Qur’anic term commonly translated as repentance. In English, repentance is a forbidding word that suggests a puritanical finality. But in Arabic the term ‘tawba’ is dynamic, meaning to ‘turn’ or ‘return’. ‘At-Tawwab’ is one of the Names of God, the Oft-Returning or Ever-Relenting. It is an active constant, an ongoing, compassionate reality that renews every moment we are alive. The process of purification is a process of continuous turning.

In ‘Hearts Turn’ Michael Sugich, author of ‘Signs on the Horizons’, tells stories that are harrowing and hilarious, heartrending and bizarre, profane and transcendent, and altogether full of hope, showing how men and women from many parts of the world and many walks of life have turned themselves around and taken a fork in the road toward a higher reality.

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Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad delivers the keynote address at the 2019 European Academy of Religion Conference

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Because politicians and social administrators are learning the need to engage with Muslims in their self-definition as a religious community, purely secular definitions of human fulfillment and liberty must find ways of conversing with theological narratives which ground human dignity and rights in metaphysics rather than primarily in social utility. This paper will survey foundational Islamic assumptions about human diversity and measure their intelligibility to modern positivism.