The Right Path for Muslims Today?

Yasir QadhiAugust 12, 202680 min0 comments

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Scholarly Tradition Gender in Islam Colonization & Muslim World Islamic History Islamic Reform Political Engagement Fiqh Contemporary Muslim Issues

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In this wide-ranging lecture, the speaker examines three paradigms that have defined the Muslim response to colonization — capitulation, rigid traditionalism, and a dynamic third path — with a particular focus on the life and legacy of the reformist scholar Rashid Ridha. The lecture explores the strengths and limitations of textually rigid Islam, the necessity of distinguishing between divine revelation and human legal interpretation, and how figures like Rashid Ridha, Hasan al-Banna, al-Albani, and Qardawi all trace their intellectual lineage to the same source. Attendees are challenged to think critically about which paradigm best honors the universality and relevance of Islam in the modern world.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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