Umar Faruq Abd-Allah – The Nobility of Men & Women in the Light of Islamic Chivalry

Umar Faruq Abd-AllahSeptember 19, 20180 comments

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In this day and age there is a lot of discussion around men and women and the relationship between them. There is also a discussion of gender and various understandings that can cause confusion. What does Islam and the way of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, say regarding men and women and gender relations? Shaykh Umar Faruq Abd-Allah answers this and more.

Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah is an American scholar and theologian regarded as one of the intellectual fathers of indigenous American Muslim thought. Born Wymann-Landgraf into a Protestant family, he embraced Islam in 1970, earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies with a dissertation on Malik's concept of amal, and taught at the University of Michigan, King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, and elsewhere. As scholar-in-residence of the Nawawi Foundation in Chicago, he authored influential essays including "Islam and the Cultural Imperative" and the acclaimed biography "A Muslim in Victorian America" about Alexander Russell Webb. His work centers on theology, Maliki law, and the formation of an authentic American Muslim culture.

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