Lecture: Muslim version of A Life worth living

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Event Date4/8/2016
Event LocationNew Haven, Connecticut, USA
Event DescriptionWhat is a life worth living? Shaykh Hamza presents, and discusses the question with Miroslav Volf, Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School.

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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
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
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
Pearls of Faith: "I'm hoping to republish that book, I found it quite extraordinary to find that..."
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
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam: "Knowledge was the basis of The Islamic Civilization "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf

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