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Religious Leader: Hussein Rashid | auburn

Hussein August 23, 2011

I’m proud to be featured as one of Auburn’s Religious Leaders. I share the stage with my friend Wajahat Ali this week. His video, linked from my page below, is a must watch as well.

Religious Leader: Hussein Rashid | auburn.

Hussein Rashid is just one of the powerful voices of faith who is joining the Groundswell of support for the 10th Anniversary of September 11th and will be a featured speaker at the September 6th, 7pm event Out of the Shadows of 9/11: Millennials, Moral Vision and the Global Groundswell. Join Auburn for this Groundswell event on September 6th, 7pm EST. For more information on Auburn Seminary and The Jack and Lewis Rudin Lectures click here. To send your Ribbon of Hope for 9/11/11 click here.

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Quoted: SCRP on Tweeting the Qur’an

Hussein August 20, 2011

How we observe Ramadan in an always-on society | Multi-American.

It was the tradition of Muhammad to read the entire Quran by the end of Ramadan. Today, some people use Twitter during Ramadan to tweet their favorite messages from the Islamic holy book. Hussein Rashid teaches Islamic Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary. A recent story in USA Today noted that in 2009, Rashid started using the #Quran hashtag on Twitter asking Muslims to tweet their favorite verses from the Quran. He expects there to be more posts this year.

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Quoted: WaPo on Tweeting the Qur’an

Hussein August 20, 2011

Koran recitation being done on Twitter for Ramadan, verse by verse – BlogPost – The Washington Post.

“What verses speak to you when you read the Koran this day? That’s what we’re looking for,” Rashid said. “The way we engage with scripture is always changing as our lives change. We can ask each other questions.”

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My name is islamoyankee | My Name Is Me

Hussein August 19, 2011

A short piece I wrote at the prompting of The Velveteen Rabbi.

My name is islamoyankee | My Name Is Me.

Online I am islamoyankee. I didn’t name my blog, islamicate, after myself, but after an idea. The idea is that Muslims are not Islam, and that they are people who are engaged in creating culture. Some of that culture is religiously defined, and some of it not. It is culture that is constructed with non-Muslims as well. I don’t use my name real name in talking about these ideas, because I want a name that also engages with them. I built a virtual identity blogging, on YouTube, on Twitter, and on Flickr to engage with this basic principle.

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Who is Ali (as), the universal hero of Islam? – City of Brass

Hussein August 19, 2011

My Ramadan Musings at City of Brass

Who is Ali (as), the universal hero of Islam? – City of Brass.

As we begin the first night of Ramadan, I think of the first promise we made to God. We bear witness that God is our Lord (7:172). From God’s desire to lead us, he left us nubuwwah and then Imamah. To be the mu’min, the one with faith, means following the guidance of the Qur’an, the Prophet, and the Imams. To me, that ethical message, particularly of service, rings the loudest. This Ramadan is a chance for me to dedicate myself to that vision as articulated by Imam Ali, and carried forward by his descendants.

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Quoted altmuslimah: Ramadan: Ramadan on Twitter- A Cyber Celebration

Hussein August 14, 2011

altmuslimah – Ramadan: Ramadan on Twitter- A Cyber Celebration.

Another interesting aspect to the concept “Ramadan on Twitter” is an effort being made by many to tweet the Quran throughout the month. AltMuslimah is also involved in this pursuit, and our tweets can be found on our Facebook page and Twitter feed, with the hashtag #TTQ. We are joining our colleagues such as Hussein Rashid, who began tweeting the Quran in 2009, after seeing Rabbis tweet the Torah.

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Segment of My Newseum Appearance

Hussein August 8, 2011

Thanks to the folks at Faith in Public Life/Bold Faith Type, I see that part of my appearance at the Newseum is online.

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Quoted: VOA on Muslims in America

Hussein July 31, 2011

Congressman: Misunderstanding of Islam Continues in the US | News | English.

Meanwhile, Hussein Rashid, a lecturer and a Muslim activist in New York, regrets that not many Muslim leaders have emerged lately. He believes it is because Muslims are not good at telling their stories.

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Quoted: USA Today on Tweeting the Qur’an

Hussein July 27, 2011

A tweet feat: Quran goes on Twitter for Ramadan – USATODAY.com.

Ramadan, which begins with a sunup-to-sundown fast Monday, calls on the Muslim faithful to immerse themselves in scripture — ideally by reading the entire Quran.

In 2009, Hussein Rashid, a professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, noticed rabbis using Twitter to highlight snippets of Torah text to celebrate Shavuot, when Jews say Moses received God’s word at Mount Sinai.

“I saw they were creating a virtual way to pray and study together, and I thought it would be fun to invite a few friends to tweet the Quran for Ramadan. By the next year we had hundreds posting at #Quran and it will be even bigger this year,” he says.

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Mention: NY1 on #PrepareNY

Hussein June 30, 2011

9/11 A Decade Later: Interfaith Coalition To Encourage Religious Tolerance On September 11th

“Although Prepare New York is an interfaith coalition, the work we are doing is for the city, is for the country,” says Dr. Hussein Rashid of the Quest Center for Spiritual Inquiry. “So we want to do is reach people where they feel comfortable, not where we feel comfortable.”