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Lecture: Rihla 2015

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Event Date7/1/2015
Event LocationTurkey
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Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "it`s really a fascinating book -- but one of the things he says in there is that the Islamic civilization was a civilization probably more than any other historically that really was centered around knowledge the ideal of knowledge."
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Travels of Ibn Jubayr: "SHY quoted extensively from this book, specifically around classical Islamic Education in the 11th Century."
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "Inquiring minds should peruse Franz Rosenthal's Knowledge Triumphant, a wonderful study on the centrality of knowledge in the Islamic world. "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Travels of Ibn Jubayr: "This is well documented in the travelogues of scholars such as Ibn Jubayr, which is available in English"
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology: "Theory of crime, and the social functionality of crime"
Don Quixote: "There's a wonderful scene for anyone who has read...Read that book Don Xiota - which is the first novel....Cervantes spent many years in Algeria, and there are many hadith in the book "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "He couldn't find any civilization in history, like the Islamic civilization, because it put the pursuit of knowledge at the forefront of its existence."
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "Regarding Franz's statement that the Islamic Civilization is the one that takes knowledge the most seriously. "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "As far as he could tell, he could find no other other civilization, whose entire reason for existence was for the pursuit of, the development of, and the transmission of knowledge "
Shaikh Hamza Quoting from the book
Don Quixote: "Protect your teeth for they are more precious then diamonds "
Shaikh Hamza Quoting from the book
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "Referenced to prove a point "
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "Knowledge was the basis of The Islamic Civilization "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
"Allah is with the broken hearted"
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf

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