Books of the year by Canada’s Globe and Mail (Canada’s leading national newspaper). Huda, Qamar-ul Qamar-ul Huda is a senior policy advisor to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on religious and global affairs. He is the former Senior Program Officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Program at the United States Institute of Peace. He is the author of "Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises for Suhrawardi Sufis". His studies and writings are geared towards examining comparative ethics, the language of violence, conflict resolution and non-violence in Islam which have been published in major American Islamic Journals. Jackson, Sherman Jackson is the King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity, and the Director of the Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice (CITCAP) at the University of Southern California. He is a wellrespected scholar and author of works dealing with Islam, Sharia, and the African-American Muslim community. Jackson is the co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM) and is featured on the Washington Post-Newsweek blog "On Faith" and the Huffington Post. He is a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America and a former professor of Law, Near Eastern Studies, and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan.
Maghraoui, Sheikh Mokhtar Sheikh Mokhtar Maghraoui is a popular religious teacher working mainly at Al-Madina Institute. Originally from Algeria, he is thoroughly versed in the Islamic sciences and holds a doctorate in the fields of physics and engineering. His expertise includes the disciplines of tazkiyah and fiqh. He is best known for his enlightening retreats and seminars empowering Muslims on their spiritual quests. Sheikh Maghraoui is also an active participant of interfaith trialogue with the Jewish and Christian communities in the Capital district of New York State.
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Garcia, Prof Muhammad Isa Garcia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Arabic, Islamic studies and theology at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah. He is a specialist in the origins of Prophetic Tradition. Garcia has translated numerous books, with many only available to a Spanish-speaking readership in his translation. He is also the author of the series Know Islam.
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