Lecture: RIS Retreat 2013

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Event Date12/20/2013
Event LocationToronto, Ontario
Event DescriptionRIS Retreat, is the 5 day lecture intensive session that occurs before the RIS Convention.

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Quotes Made at this Event

The End of the Jihad State: "Speaking on the Ummayad Dynasty"
The Meaning and End of Religion: "And there was a sign that said, "Warning shots will not fired". I looked up and I turned to this Muslim man who was in Prison next to me and said, "What does that mean?" He looked at me and he said, "It means exactly what it says" "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
The End of the Jihad State: "How the Ummayads grew too fast and collapsed under their own weight. The Ottomans though were slower and more intelligent "
God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason : " A good book to read. It's about the centrality of reason "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
The Meaning and End of Religion: "I read a book called 'The end of Religion'"
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
The Meaning and End of Religion: "He does a case study on Islam, as a religion going through change"
The End of the Jihad State: "The most intelligent Islamic historian I’ve ever met inIslam "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason : "If you want a really beautiful study of this FACT, I would recommend you read John Walbridge's book, on the Caliphate of Reason, and he shows that Muslims were obsessed with the arts of language "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason : "Logic is a maligned subject in modern Islam, and if you read John Walbridge's book, you will understand how central, logic was to Islamic civilization; Absolutely central.  It was studied in all of the universities of Islam.  It’s a great tragedy that it's no longer studied. "
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf

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