We have contributed an essay to
the forthcoming book, What
Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim
Perspectives and Reflections scheduled
for publication this month.
Seeking funding for a conference
in Tunisia on entrepreneurship.
Planning a project to educate
Muslims on civil liberties, civic
participation, and basic American Law.
Preparation of a book on
disentangling culture from religion.
[7/10/23] Dr. Ahmad lectured his book
"Signs in the Heavens: A Muslim
Astronomer's Perspective on Religion and
Science" to a
Zoom meeting of the Temecula
Valley Astronomers.
[4/24/23] We have posted a
summary of a panel discussion on the
Center for the Study of Islam and
Democracy's panel discussion on "The
Subjugation of Tunisia's Judiciary"
on our blog.
March 2023
[3/26/23] Our activity
page has been updated to include events
through December 2022.
Our summary of the launch for
Rached Ghannouchi's book "Public
Freedoms in the Islamic State,"
cosponsored by the Center for the
Study of Islam and Democracy and the
Center for Christian-Muslim
Understanding is on our blog.
The Washington Post
declined to publish MFI president
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad's letter on "Voter
Suppression in Jerusalem," so we
are pleased to offer it on
our blog.
MFI president Imad-ad-Dean
Ahmad's review
of Darío
Fernández-Morer's book The Myth of the
Andalusian Paradise: Muslims,
Christians, and Jews under Islamic
Rule in Medieval Spain for publication
in the Molinari Review is on our blog.
Dr. Ahmad's review
of Jörg Matthias Determann’s Islam,
Science Fiction, and
Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture
of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
is on our blog.
February 2021
Our summary
of the National Interest Foundation
discussion on Libya's transitional
government and the prospects for
December's elections is on our blog.
January 2021
Our summary
of 2nd Conference on Cultural
Rapprochement Between the United
States and the Muslim World is on our
blog.
December 2020
Our summary
of highlights of Nonviolence
International's webinar on Jonathan
Kuttab’s book Beyond the Two State
Solution is on our blog.
November 2020
Minaret of Freedom Institute
president Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
was interviewed on "The Scholars
Chair" TV program on John Rawl's
theory of "Justice
as Fairness."
Attorney Ashraf Nubani joined former
Maryland legislator Saqib Ali and
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for
Policy Studies as featured speakers at
the Minaret
of Freedom Institute 26th Anniversary
Dinner on Nov. 10 on “Suppression
of the BDS Movement: The Attack on the
First Amendment.”
A
presentation by Dr. Ahmad is Part 2.
of a seven part video of a
Jewish-Islamic Dialog Society panel on
"Lessons Learned from Jewish-Muslim
Engagement in our Local Communities" (Parts
1,
3,
4,
5,
6,
and 7
are also available)
Minaret
of
Freedom Institute president Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad gave
the keynote address "Is There More to
Freedom than a Dream?" at the annual
Martin Luther King Memorial Interfaith
Service at the Christian Community
Presbyterian Church in Bowie, MD.
Dr. Ahmad gave a joint prayer for
peace in the Middle East with Jewish
chaplain Jason Beckendorf at the Make
Hummus Not Hate rally at
American University.
Dr. Ahmad's notes
from the presentation by Mouez
Khalfaoui on “Marriage Law in
Indonesia: Deconstructing the
Concept of Women’s Rights Within
Islam” at the 2014 IIIT conference
on Islamic Law and Ethics
were published on our blog.
Dr. Ahmad's notes
from presentations by David R.
Vishanoff on “The Ethical
Structure of Imam al-Haramayn
al-Juwayni’s Usul al-Fiqh” and
Samy Ayoub on “Necessity and
Ethical Hierarchy in Islamic Law”
at the 2014 IIIT conference on
Islamic Law and Ethics were
published on our blog.
Dr. Ahmad's notes
from the presentation by Mouez
Khalfaoui on “Work Ethics in
Muslim Culture: The Transformation
of an Obligation Into a Right” at
the 2014 IIIT conference on
Islamic Law and Ethics
were published on our
blog.
In "Muslims
Are
Losing the Race", Dr. Ahmad
challenged today's Muslims to be
as willing to go out of their way
to fight injustice as the
Christians and Jews who marched in
Selma fifty years ago.
Dr. Ahmad's notes
from the panel on “Reform
of
Higher Education in the Muslim
World” with Ermin Sinanović,
Prof. Abdulaziz Sachedina, and
Prof. Ebrahim Moosa at the 2014
IIIT conference on Islamic Law and
Ethics were published on our blog.
Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Prof.
Sulayman Nyang are quoted in "A
Vision of Jerusalem for All Faiths"
in Middle East Eye answering the Chief
Rabbi of the IDF's assertion that
Jerusalem is never mentioned in the
Qur'an.
Dr. Ahmad's notes from the
special lecture on "Pluralism
in
Islamic Ethics” by Prof. Carl W.
Ernst at the 2014 IIIT conference on
Islamic Law and Ethics are now
available on our blog
Dr. Ahmad's notes from the panel
on “Ethics
in
Maqasid al-Shari’ah, Politics, and
Policy” with Prof. Jasser Auda
and Prof. Jonathan Brown, moderated by
Prof. Carl W. Ernst at the 2014 IIIT
conference on Islamic Law and Ethics
are now available on our blog.
Dr. Ahmad's notes from the
presentation “Law
and
Ethics in Islamic Jurisprudence"
by Prof. Abdulaziz Sachedina at the
2014 IIIT conference on Islamic Law
and Ethics was posted to
our blog.
Our answers to a set of questions
from a journalism student at the
University of Maryland on "the Plight
of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar"
are on our blog.
We attended an American Task
Force on Palestine panel on the "Status
and
Future of the Muslim Brotherhood"
near the end of which Dr. Ahmad
compared violent dropouts from Muslim
Brotherhood with violent dropouts from
the Anti-Vietnam War protests.
Dr. Ahmad's notes from the
presentation on "The
Current
Situation in Syria: Problems and
Prospects" made by Amb. Mark G.
Hambley & William Morris (Next
Century Foundation) in a round table
discussion at the 2014 Dialogue on
Middle East Strategies sponsored by
the Policy Studies Organization were
posted to our blog.
