Islam Awareness Week is here!! Come join us starting this Thursday, February 8th until February 15th, for a week filled with exciting events! Be sure to attend and bring your friends!
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1. Open Mic Night 2013-Art, Faith and Social Justice
When: Thursday, February 7th 2013
Time: 8:30-10:30 PM
Where: TBA
Come one, come all to the Columbia University Muslim Students Association’s second annual Open Mic Night!
If you would like to showcase your talents through performance or artwork, please contact Alay Syed at afs2137@barnard.edu or Mariam Elnozahy atmee2141@barnard.edu ASAP!!
Kick off an amazing Islam Awareness Week with music, poetry, and festivities celebrating diversity and the passion within our community. This year Islam Awareness Week will focus on Islam across cultures, along with the issues of social justice and equality.
We invite students from all across campus to perform poetry, songs, monologues,stories, or any other work focusing on the theme of spirituality, social justice, minority issues, and cultural celebration.
Featuring Luke Patterson, Haris Durrani, Shruti Kulkarni, Zahra Bhaiwala, Hisham Fageeh, Maryam Rabiee, and many more!
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2. Pluralism and Shariah: “Is Babel a Curse or a Blessing?
When: Friday, February 8th 2013
Time: 6:00PM-8:00PM
Where: Lerner C555
“O people! Behold, we have created you from a male and a female and have made you into nations and tribes so that you might come to know one another. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God is the one who is most deeply conscious of Him. Behold, God is all-knowing, all-aware.” [Qur'an 49:13]
This year, Islam Awareness Week will focus on themes of diversity and multiculturalism. We are kicking off the week with a spiritual, intellectual discussion — including Professors Najam Haider (Assistant Professor of Religion at Barnard College), Jerusha Lamptey (Assistant Professor of Islam and Ministry at Union Theological Seminary), and Brinkley Messick (Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University) — on what Shariah is and how it handles (or, perhaps, handled) cultural, religious, and legal pluralism. Even today, to claim that Shariah proclaims one monolithic ruling on a given issue is arguably erroneous, failing to take into account the heterogeneity of its social, moral, and legal system. This gives rise to the questions: How, and to what degree, did premodern Shariah provide various forms of plurality, allowing multiple schools of thought within Islam, various religions, and many cultures to live under its purview? How did the advent of modernity and colonialism affect Shariah’s ability to sustain its arguably pluralistic ethic? To what degree does Shariah embody the core of Islam itself? In the predominantly modern or Western interpretation, the story of the Tower of Babel is often taken as a sign that cultural differences are the source of our problems — but, in the context of Shariah, how might we come to see cultural, religious, and legal differences as a benefit rather than a detriment?
Najam Haidar: https://barnard.edu/profiles/
Jerusha Lamptey: http://www.utsnyc.edu/
Brinkley Messick: http://anthropology.columbia.
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**All Non-CUID MUST RSVP to msa@columbia.edu
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3. Islam in East Asia
When: Monday, February 11, 2013
Time: 7:00PM-9:00PM
Where: TBA
Come check out the Islam in East Asia event during Islam Awareness Week at Columbia University. We will be having Dr. Dru Gladney from Pomona College speaking on Islam in China. Bring a friend and come learn something new! Refreshments will be served.
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4. 1492, Colonialism and the Spanish Inquisition: A Turning Point into Modernity?
When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Time: 7:30PM-9:30PM
Where: Party Space, Alfred Lerner Hall
Join the Columbia University Muslim Students Association for the fourth event of Islam Awareness Week! This year, IAW will explore themes of diversity and multiculturalism throughout Islam in both historical and modern contexts.
Professors Gil Anidjar (Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Religion at Columbia University) and Orlando Bentancor (Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College) will address the following:
The history and influence of Muslim Spain is familiar to many of us: a society thrived for centuries which, while not perfect, accommodated a deeply multicultural and interfaith population, contributing a significant body of philosophical and scientific work to world civilization. Despite the many lessons we can still learn from the diverse culture of Andalucia and its treatment of minorities, this discussion hopes to move beyond that conversation and instead come to terms with how Andalucia’s unfortunate demise informs the world we know today.
The events of expulsion, inquisition, and colonialism against Muslims, Jews, and the indigenous peoples of the “New World” seem to pivot around 1492 and the “Age of Discovery.” With this panel, we seek to ask: How, if at all, did the period mark a shift into modern Euro-America and its conception of the minority or “the Other” ? What lasting effects might linger in today’s conception of the Muslim, the Jew, the Latino, the Native American, and other immigrants and minorities, and how can we deconstruct this history of subjugation in order to perhaps re-instill the pluralistic ethic of Andalucia in its Golden Age?
**All Non-CUID MUST RSVP to msa@columbia.edu
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5. Racial Profiling and its Discontents
When: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Time: 7:00PM
Where: Room 569, Alfred Lerner Hall (114th and Broadway)
Join the Columbia University Muslim Students Association, civil rights activist Cyrus McGoldrick, and lawyers and advocates from CUNY-CLEAR for a symposium on the political, legal, and social implications and drivers of police brutality with a focus on the recent surveillance of Muslims/immigrant groups and the controversial Stop and Frisk policy which primarily affects people of color.
Free and open to the public. Non-CUID please RSVP at msa@columbia.edu.
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**All Non-CUID MUST RSVP to msa@columbia.edu
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6. Love in Islam
When: Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Time: 7-8:30 PM
Where: Carman Lounge
People often associate Islam with animosity, almost as if there is no space for love. The religion is often misrepresented with hate and violence in contemporary representations, rather than the values of peace and love that it is known to uphold. This event will feature Shaykh Abdallah Adhami, who will delve into the importance of love in Islam through both a historical and contemporary lens.
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