Hamza Yusuf - Muslim Peace Forum 2018

Hamza YusufDecember 11, 20180 comments

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In this address at the Muslim Peace Forum 2018, Hamza Yusuf reflects on the life and methodology of his teacher Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, exploring how the Prophet's ﷺ model of inclusive citizenship, peacemaking, and the pre-Islamic Alliance of Virtue (*Hilf al-Fudul*) offer a timeless framework for interfaith cooperation. Drawing on Quranic verses, prophetic biography, and classical Islamic concepts, he makes a compelling case that spreading peace, feeding the hungry, and building alliances across religious lines are not peripheral to Islam — they are its very heart.

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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