Hamza Yusuf – 9/11 Unity Walk 2011

Hamza YusufSeptember 16, 20110 comments

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In this address at the 2011 9/11 Unity Walk, Hamza Yusuf reflects on the tenth anniversary of September 11th, drawing on Islamic, Jewish, and American civic traditions to call for unity, mercy, and mutual understanding. He traces the shared Abrahamic roots of compassion, revisits the history of minority communities in America, and challenges his audience to reject hatred and factionalism in favor of solidarity and justice. The lecture is a passionate appeal for Americans of all faiths to live up to the founding ideals of their country and to recognize the common humanity that binds them together.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the Western world. Born Mark Hanson in Washington State in 1958, he embraced Islam in 1977 and spent over a decade studying the traditional Islamic sciences in the UAE, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, most notably under the Mauritanian sage Murabit al-Hajj. He is the co-founder and president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California — the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States — and has translated numerous classical texts, including "The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi" and "Purification of the Heart." His lectures on spirituality, classical scholarship, and the crisis of modernity have shaped a generation of Western Muslims.

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