General: Abou El Fadl, Khaled. Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001. Algar, Hamid. Wahhabism: A Critical Essay. Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publications International, 2001. Bulliet, Richard W. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Ernst, Carl…
http://www.parkavenuechristian.com/quest1 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM Four Mondays at 6:30 pm, beginning February 1 Tickets: $100 through smarttix.com Even the most sophisticated New Yorkers know little about Islam. What limited knowledge we do have comes through the media, where facts are often incomplete. This introductory course will cover the principal beliefs of…
Mentioned in an article on Change.org about a response to racial profiling.
Patheos recently republished an article of mine from Religion Dispatches. In the United States, a place I have argued is a new intellectual Mecca, rather than attacking a simplified version of Islam, an Islam-lite if you will, I find more and more American Muslims defining themselves by Orientalist constructions of…
I was recently interviewed by Good Day NY on Fox TV concerning a State Assemblyman’s bill to profile Muslims. The short version of the interview is below, the full segments below the fold.
I will be speaking at the Parliament of World Religions, in Melbourne, Australia. I have one primary panel, listed below, and several other panels. Sun., Dec. 6, 16:30-18:00 An Islamic Conscience: The Aga Khan and the Ismailis (respondent) Room 107 Film and Discussion The Aga Khan has been the spiritual…
Article is here. Responding to those questions in an interview, Hussein Rashid, one of the event’s co-leaders and a visiting professor of religious studies at Hofstra University, called Geyer’s question “refreshing” and said he wasn’t alone in expressing those thoughts. Rashid said that Muslim scholars have begun to respond to…
Recent Wall Street Journal article quotes me arguing against recognizing Eid holidays in NY’s schools. My original thoughts from Religion Dispatches are here.