Category: Religion
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…
Spoleto Festival Panel: Beyond Omar
Beyond OmarTuesday, December 14, 20216:00pm ET Register here: https://ticketing.spoletousa.org/5137/5139 The story of West African Muslims in the United States does not begin or end with Omar Ibn Said. While Said’s autobiography shares a remarkable first-hand account, the enslaved Muslim experience in America was not monolithic. During this talk, panelists Dr.…
The Prophet’s Heir Discussion at Asia Society
The following video is of a conversation I had with Hassan Abbas on his book The Prophet's Heir, hosted by The Asia Society NY.
Hussein Rashid on the “Qur’an”
From a talk I gave at HGI Manhattan College on 1 April 2021.