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  • 21 March 2018
    March 21, 2018
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Islam’s contribution to Europe — III

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There is another connection between Dante and Islam. Manuscripts of Brunetto Latini’s book Li Livres dou Tresor (The Book of the Treasure), which equates treasure to knowledge, features depictions of Aristotle as an Arab, such was the identification of Aristotle with Islam in Christian Europe at the time. Aristotle appears ‘complete with […]
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  • 21 March 2018
    March 21, 2018
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Ambassador Akbar Ahmed presents Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity at the 92nd Street Y in New York

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On Thursday, March 15, Ambassador Akbar Ahmed presented his new book, Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity, at the 92nd Street Y in New York at part of their Daytime Talks series. The event was attended by several prominent community leaders in New York, including E. Nisar Khan and […]
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  • 09 March 2018
    March 9, 2018
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1971 Field Notes – Lessons For Pakistan Today

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President Ayub Khan was right. Though watching the 1971 crisis from Islamabad, as a field marshal of the Pakistan Army, he had spotted what for me, a junior assistant commissioner in the field in East Pakistan that year, was glaringly obvious: no nation could fight on two fronts and hope […]
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  • 09 March 2018
    March 9, 2018
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Akbar Ahmed – Journey Into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity

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Sunday, March 4, 2018 – 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. In the latest of his studies examining relations between the West and the Muslim world, Ambassador Ahmed, author of Journey into Islam andJourney into America, draws on extensive discussions with people throughout Europe. Traveling with a team of researchers, Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic […]
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  • 07 March 2018
    March 7, 2018
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Georgiana Vines: Leading authority on Islam talks religion bridge-building at UT

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Akbar Ahmed, a leading authority on Islam at American University and former Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, believes building bridges across religions is essential to solving global problems of war and terrorism. Ahmed spoke Wednesday at the University of Tennessee, asking the standing-room-only crowd at the […]
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  • 07 March 2018
    March 7, 2018
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The American swami of peace

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In order to build bridges once again in the Subcontinent, Indians will need to better understand the Quaid and Pakistanis will have to read up on the Mahatama   After 9/11, when American Muslims were still very much living isolated in the shadows of a growing Islamophobia in the land, […]
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