Renovatio: How Do We Know? - Spring 2019
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About The Book
The Spring 2019 issue of Renovatio ("How Do We Know?") seeks to explore how a broader view of knowledge could change the way we understand our world today.
Table of Contents
Medina and Athena: Restoring a Lost Legacy
The divorce between Athena and Medina explains much of what went wrong in the Muslim world.
Hamza Yusuf
Why Jews Don’t Proselytize
In an ancient world teeming with competing tribal deities, the monotheism of the Jews was distinctive. Was it merely an accident of history that they didn’t spread their faith?
Reuven Firestone
The Many Sides of Knowledge
If the knowledge we gather is partial and limited, can we truly understand the feelings and experiences of others?
Sarah Barnette
The Soul of Rhetoric in the Age of Amazon
Our digital lives are so mediated by soulless algorithms that it seems absurd to imagine genuine human relationships governing our online interactions.
Scott F. Crider
Must Religious Duty Conflict with Political Order?
To secure the kind of religious freedoms Muslims desire, we must revisit Muslim commitment to religious pluralism and shared obedience to sovereign powers.
Roger Scruton
To See the World for the First Time
Can religious traditions help us see what is most mysterious in what is most ordinary?
Sophia Vasalou
What Islam Gave the Blues
The blues is neither African nor Islamic—rather, it’s an African American creation shaped by some of the most enduring contributions of West African Muslims to American culture.
Sylviane A. Diouf
Can We Live in Harmony with Nature?
The roots of our environmental crisis are often neglected because, were they to be considered, our worldviews and manners of living would necessarily have to change.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Islamic Art of Asking Questions
Muslims of the past always tolerated permanent disagreement even about versions of religious truth. Can modern Muslims recapture this tradition?
John Walbridge
Belief in the Obvious
As truth seekers, we shield ourselves from sophistry through practiced skepticism. But by wielding the weapon of incredulity, could there be another evil that we unwittingly invite?
Joshua Lee Harris
How We Split the World Apart
We often understand philosophy as secular and rational and faith as transcendent and irrational. But are the two really separate?
Eva Brann and Hamza Yusuf
Blessed Opposition
The principle of non-contradiction—that the same thing cannot both be and not be—is routinely denied in modern thought, but this rejection never confronts its real authority.
Mark Damien Delp
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
Size
W- | H- | D-
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