University Distinguished Teaching Award 2023
From The New School
Author: Hussein
Can the World’s Religions Help Save Us from Ecological Peril?
Can the World’s Religions Help Save Us from Ecological Peril? Visotzky brought in theologian Hussein Rashid ’96CC, who was exploring similar questions from a Muslim ethical standpoint. The scholars, who had spun off from a larger interfaith study group at Fordham Law School, decided to examine the issue of water…
Video: Critical Conversations: Exploring the Shi’i tradition: Understanding the Continuity of Imamate
ITREB USA presents Critical Conversations: “Exploring the Shi’i tradition: Understanding the Continuity of Imamate”, where we explore the vision of the Imams’ guidance across the centuries on ethic of the spirit of inquiry and compassion, and sharing. This Critical Conversation features Dr. Hussein Rashid and is moderated by Dr. Naaila…
Video: Critical Conversations: Faith and Practice – Service as a Way of Life
ITREB USA presents Critical Conversations: “Faith & Practice – Service as a Way of Life” where we explore the concept of service in Islam and within the Ismaili Tariqah and how service is practiced in our lives. This Critical Conversation features Dr. Hussein Rashid and Zahra Kassam and is moderated…
Event: Religion, Race, and Urban Space in NYC – Museum of the City of New York
1 December 2022, 6:30PM EST Tickets Curator Azra Dawood talks with Nathaniel Deutsch, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, and Hussein Rashid, three leading scholars of religion in New York City, about the intersections of the public and private, the political, secular and sacred. This program accompanies our new exhibition, City of Faith:Religion, Activism…
Video: 6th Annual Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy – Creating an Ecosystem of Change
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Sectarian conundrums – Newspaper – DAWN.COM
Sectarian conundrums – Newspaper – DAWN.COM. Unfortunately, such content, as Hussein Rashid argues, creates “a normative Islam against which other Muslims are measured”.
New Chapter: In Cyber Muslims
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age Through an array of detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufis, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, hajj pilgrims and social media influencers. These stories span a…
Event: Critical Race Theory and Religion
Shoulder to Shoulder hosted a panel discussion featuring Harman Singh from The Sikh Coalition, Taneeza Islam from South Dakota Voices for Peace, and Hussein Rashid representing the Interfaith Center of New York to learn more about what CRT is and isn’t and what we can do to create communities where…
New Chapter: In Are the Arts Essential?
Are the Arts Essential? Across twenty-five highly engaging essays, these luminaries join together to address this question and to share their own ideas, experiences, and ambitions for the arts. Darren Walker discusses the ideals of justice and fairness advanced through the arts; Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us how artists and…