2008 Woodie Awards
Islam awareness week begins today
Staff Report
Issue date: 3/31/08 Section: News
Islam Awareness Week, running today through Friday on campus, hopes to teach non-Muslims to understand the second-largest religion in the world.
An Islamic artist and three Muslim clerics will give presentations throughout the week sponsored by the Muslim Student Association.
Hamdy El-Sawaf is the secretary general of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of Minnesota, a group of imams, scholars and activists who serve as a religious authority for Minnesota Muslims.
El-Sawaf, an imam for a Minneapolis mosque, will present "Coexistence: Misconception & Truth" at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Atwood Ballroom.
He also founded the Al-Wafaa Center, which is a human services organization in Minneapolis.
Muhammed Refii Kileci specializes in traditional Islamic arts and will discuss "Turkish Calligraphy and Marbling" at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Atwood Brickyard.
Water marbling is a technique of making marble patterns on paper by letting color pigment float on top of water and transferring it to paper, which is then used for things such as endpapers in books.
Khalid Yasin, an American-born Muslim cleric, will present "Islam: A Way of Life" at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in Atwood Ballroom.
Yasin is known for promoting Sharia law and Islamic teachings to govern civil life and has lived in Britain and Australia.
Siraj Wahhaj, another American-born cleric and well-known Muslim leader, will speak on "What is Jihad?" at 2 p.m. Thursday in Atwood Little Theatre.
Wahhaj is imam of a mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y. and is on the executive committee of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA).
MANA is a network of organizations that address needs within indigenous American Muslim communities such as social and economic problems in the inner city and improving society as a whole.
An Islamic artist and three Muslim clerics will give presentations throughout the week sponsored by the Muslim Student Association.
Hamdy El-Sawaf is the secretary general of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of Minnesota, a group of imams, scholars and activists who serve as a religious authority for Minnesota Muslims.
El-Sawaf, an imam for a Minneapolis mosque, will present "Coexistence: Misconception & Truth" at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Atwood Ballroom.
He also founded the Al-Wafaa Center, which is a human services organization in Minneapolis.
Muhammed Refii Kileci specializes in traditional Islamic arts and will discuss "Turkish Calligraphy and Marbling" at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Atwood Brickyard.
Water marbling is a technique of making marble patterns on paper by letting color pigment float on top of water and transferring it to paper, which is then used for things such as endpapers in books.
Khalid Yasin, an American-born Muslim cleric, will present "Islam: A Way of Life" at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in Atwood Ballroom.
Yasin is known for promoting Sharia law and Islamic teachings to govern civil life and has lived in Britain and Australia.
Siraj Wahhaj, another American-born cleric and well-known Muslim leader, will speak on "What is Jihad?" at 2 p.m. Thursday in Atwood Little Theatre.
Wahhaj is imam of a mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y. and is on the executive committee of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA).
MANA is a network of organizations that address needs within indigenous American Muslim communities such as social and economic problems in the inner city and improving society as a whole.