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Hamza Yusuf – Foundations of Islam Series: Pillars of Practice

Hamza YusufOctober 2, 201165 min0 comments

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Comparative Religion Islamic History Prophethood Aqeedah Quran Pillars of Islam Tafsir Prayer

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Hamza Yusuf – Foundations of Islam Series: How the Qur’an Was Revealed and Compiled

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Hamza Yusuf – Foundations of Islam Series: Signs of the Last Day

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In this lecture from his Foundations of Islam series, Hamza Yusuf explores the meaning and scope of Islam through Quranic verses, linguistic analysis, and the Hadith of Gabriel. He unpacks the Arabic word *deen*, traces three (and a fourth surprising) Quranic meanings of Islam, and walks through the cosmological and spiritual dimensions of the five daily prayers — including a fascinating discussion of shadows, timekeeping, and how the arc of a day mirrors the arc of a human life.

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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