Renovatio: The Silence of God - Vol. 3, No. 2
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About The Book
The Fall 2019 issue of Renovatio (“The Silence of God”) reflects upon how we continue to “hear” God, even after the close of revelation.
Table of Contents
Counting the Minutes
Every single thing we do, every moment of waking awareness, every instant of our lives might carry value, be significant, and be ordered to some meaningful end.
Sophia Vasalou
The Sound of Silence
God’s speech is real, true, and authoritative; the speech of anything else, in and of itself, is unreal, false, and unreliable.
William C. Chittick
Can an Islamic Natural Theology Explain God’s Silence Today?
In our age of rage and reason, we must examine the implications of the God of Abraham remaining silent, even in the face of widespread rejection.
Shabbir Akhtar
Do We Mistake Our Passion for Truth with Its Possession?
God has given the Abrahamic family a window of opportunity to advance beyond sibling rivalry in the direction of fraternal cooperation.
Reuven Kimelman
Pia Fraus: Our Words and God’s Truth
Is it possible that there are times when our words more faithfully reflect God’s truth because they do not conform or correspond to what happens to be the case?
David Bentley Hart
Breaking the Cycle of Oppression
The tyrant in the palace and the bully on the street corner are easy to see, but spotting the tyrant within our own souls is far more challenging.
Hamza Yusuf
Muslims Are Not a Race
Many intellectuals believe Islamophobia is a form of racism, but the ultimate presuppositions embedded in this view are antithetical not only to Islam but to religion as such.
Caner K. Dagli
The Oneness of Being
By affirming multiple levels to being, Islamic scholars rejected the flattening of being and the notion that a thing either is or is not.
Rosabel Ansari
After Revelation, Where Does Reason Lead?
With the end of revelation, Muslim scholars established a framework that allowed us to continue to “hear” God’s word, without the pitfalls of pure fideism on one hand and free interpretation on the other.
Mohammad Fadel
Things in Their Proper Places
In Western philosophy, the conversation about justice has been long and winding. How has this conversation proceeded among Muslims?
Zaid Shakir
“Everything Other Than God Is Unreal”
A sound ontological argument would show that even without human experience of the world, pure reason itself necessarily arrives at the existence of God.
Faraz Khan
About the Contributor(s)
About the authors
Hamza Yusuf: Hamza Yusuf hafidhahullah (born 1960) is one of the most prominent American Muslim scholars of his generation and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. A steadfast advocate of classical learning in Islam, he has promoted Islamic sciences and traditional pedagogical methodologies throughout the world. He serves as an advisor to the Centre for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and as a member of the board of advisors of George Russell's One Nation, a national philanthropic initiative promoting pluralism and inclusion in America. He also serves as vice-president of the Global Centre for Guidance and Renewal, an institution founded and presided over by Abdallah bin Bayyah. He is among the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter from Islamic scholars to Christian leaders calling for peace and understanding. His published works include translations such as The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi and Purification of the Heart, and authored titles such as Agenda to Change Our Condition and Caesarean Moon Births.
Zaid Shakir: Zaid Shakir (b. 1956 CE) is one of America's most respected Muslim scholars and educators, best known as a co-founder, alongside Hamza Yusuf and Hatem Bazian, of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States, established in 2010. Born Ricky Mitchell in Berkeley, he embraced Islam in 1977 while serving in the U.S. Air Force, later taking the name Zaid Shakir. His path joined Western academic training with classical Islamic learning. He earned degrees in political science and international relations from American University and Rutgers University, then studied Arabic in Egypt before turning to the traditional sciences, law, Qurʾanic studies, and spirituality with leading scholars in Syria and Morocco. In 2001 he became the first American male to graduate from Abu Nur University in Damascus. Over the years he helped found several mosques and Islamic centers, taught as a scholar in residence at the Zaytuna Institute, and emerged as a thoughtful public voice on faith, social justice, and the life of Muslim communities in the West. He is a signatory of A Common Word Between Us and You. His writings include Scattered Pictures, Where I'm Coming From, and Agenda to Change Our Condition (with Hamza Yusuf), and his translations include Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance and The Heirs of the Prophets.
Specifications
Publisher
Zaytuna
Author
Hamza Yusuf and Zaid Shakir
Year Published
2019
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