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Lecture: Educating your child in modern times

Information about a lecture Shaykh Hamza gave. Organizes quotes he made, books recommended, a transcript. Llick the Lecture CD image see where you can purchase the CD set.

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Event Date1/12/2001
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Moby Dick: "(Herman Melville) Possibly the greatest American Author"
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West: "A good book to read"
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West: "I recommend you read this book, if you're interested in this field."
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West: "The rise of rational thought in Europe, coincides with the rise of the same in Muslim and Jewish thought "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West: "A very important book "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
Moby Dick: "I just reread finished Moby Dick again, which was an incredibly rewarding experience.  One of the tragedies of having to read things in high school and colleges that you're really not ready for them.  So it's very important to read them when you have enough life experience and Moby Dick was a complete eye opener for me about the very things Dr. Cornell was talking about earlier about the hierarchy and social injustice.  And this madness that the head of this ship, which is going to take everybody to destruction.  And I found out because I wanted to know where he got the name Moby Dick.  And I actually found out that it was after Austin Beale who was who had a ship called the Moby Dick.  And he was smuggling slaves on this ship out of the south and he was doing this in the 1850s in Boston. "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf

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