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Light Without Fire: the Making of America's First Muslim College Online 7MRPe (Mobile pdf) Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College Online [7MRPe.ebook] Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College Pdf Free Scott Korb DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #534473 in Books 2013-04-16 2013-04-16Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.32 x .84 x 6.24l, 1.04 #File Name: 0807001635224 pages | File size: 27.Mb Scott Korb : Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College: 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great picture of America's First Muslim Liberal Arts College!By Jahmal WineglassIt gives an honest picture of what it's like to be at the nation's first Muslim Liberal Arts College.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I like the discussion of how the students are pioneers.By Muhammed Al- AhariThe book is really good at capturing the feeling of the students, but it ignores the earlier Islamic colleges in the United States -- there are actually more than a dozen now. The most glaring absences are the American Islamic College in Chicago and the American Muslim College started by Imam Warith Deen Muhammad's followers in the 1980s.6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A must read! A lovely book!By WalidScott Korb's book "Light Without Fire" was a pleasure to read. Scott does a great job incorporating humor into this book. I enjoyed that very much. He explains the historical background of Zaytuna College (formerly Zaytuna Institute), and gives mini- biographies of its founders. Scott also gives mini-biographies of the "Zaytunies" (students at Zaytuna). Scott does a great job explaining Arabic terms and Islamic rituals so the reader doesn't feel ignorant. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to read about being a story of the American Dream! The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build an Islamic cultural center, while a small-time Florida minister appeared on national television almost nightly promising to celebrate the anniversary of 9/11 with the burning of Korans. At the same time, fifteen devout Muslims quietly gathered in a basement in Berkeley, California, to execute a plan that had been coming together for over a decade: to found Zaytuna College, “Where Islam Meets America.” It would be the nation’s first four-year Muslim liberal arts college, its mission to establish a thoroughly American, academically rigorous, and traditional indigenous Islam. In Light without Fire, Scott Korb tells the story of the school’s founders, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir, arguably the two most influential leaders in American Islam, “rock stars” who, tellingly, are little known outside their community. Korb also introduces us to Zaytuna’s students, young American Muslims of all stripes who admire—indeed, love—their teachers in ways college students typically don’t and whose stories, told for the first time, signal the future of Islam in this country. From a heady theology classroom to a vibrant storefront mosque, from the run-down streets Oakland to grand ballrooms echoing with America’s most powerful Muslim voices, Korb follows Zaytuna’s students and teachers as they find their place and their voice. He ultimately creates an intimate portrait of the school and provides a new introduction to Islam as it is being lived and re-envisioned in America. It’s no exaggeration to say that here, at Zaytuna, are tomorrow’s Muslim leaders. “Gracefully written [and] ultrarelevant.”—New York Magazine“Will Islam become an American religion or remain permanently estranged? Will Muslims in America develop an identity that contributes to their country or one that emphasizes isolation and opposition? Scott Korb knows just how crucial these questions are, and in Light Without Fire tells the story of the leaders and animating ideas behind America’s first Muslim liberal arts college—an institution seeking to build an American Islam—in all its fits and starts, and in prose that is both clear and compelling. I for one could not put it down—it is essential and riveting reading.”—Eboo Patel, Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core, author of Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America“With the warm generosity of an attentive host, and the critical yet respectful eye of a keen journalist, Scott Korb has given us an entertaining and illuminating look into the nation’s first Muslim college.” —Wajahat Ali, author of The Domestic Crusaders and lead author of the investigative report “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” "This is an important book, and one as original as its fascinating subject. Like Roy Mottahedeh's classic Mantle of the Prophet, Light Without Fire is about education in both the broadest and deepest senses and about Islam in a particular place and time. Only here that place is America, now, a country desperately in need of stories about its own Islam. We are lucky to have a writer as erudite and engaged as Scott Korb to bring us this one." —Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author of The Family and Sweet Heaven When I Die“A moving portrait of a little known but hugely significant coordinate in America’s spiritual geography. For this journey into the heart of 21st-century Islam, Scott Korb is the perfect companion—not just a tour guide with ready answers to any question, but a fellow pilgrim leading the way to deeper understanding. Light Without Fire is at once a fascinating account of Muslims living their faith in the US, and a universal story of the call to make tradition new.” —Peter Manseau, author of Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter"How many stories in American religious experience are truly new? Not so many, and Scott Korb's story of Zaytuna College is one of them, expertly and presciently told." —Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own"Scott Korb’s Light Without Fire is a rare and precious book—intelligent, compassionate, and beautifully observed—one that will provide a necessary and vital contribution to any serious discussion of the role of Islam and religion in America." —Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears“Readers interested in Islam in America or the dynamics of Islamic education will find the book fascinating.” —Publisher's WeeklyAbout the AuthorScott Korb is the author of Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine and coauthor of The Faith Between Us. He teaches at the New School and at New York University and lives with his family in New York City.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.From Light without Fire Finding ways to explain himself is what sent a Muslim student of mine to Zaytuna Institute in the first place. Explaining themselves as traditional Muslim scholars is also what founders Sheik Hamza Yusuf, Imam Zaid Shakir, and Dr. Hatem Bazian have in mind with Zaytuna College, which, after years of planning, finally opened its doors in 2010. Because as much as nearly everyone involved in the story that follows would like to deny it, or like it not to be the case, there’s no getting around the fact that the 9/11 terrorist attacks occupy a central place in how we—all of us, Muslim and non-Muslim alike—think about Islam in contemporary America. We’d seen it once again at Fort Hood. What we’d been hearing for nearly a decade is that where Muslims gather—in the public square, a local mosque, or a military base loaded with guns—Allah is in their midst, raising Cain. When Zaytuna College opened its doors, I was there. And I was there again and again all throughout that first year—in the classroom with Rasheeda and Faatimah and Leenah, with Mahassin and Sumaya and Reem; in the mosque with Dustin listening to sermons from Imam Zaid; in Islamic centers tucked away in low-rent industrial parks with Omar and his kids; and in the dormitories and Zaytuna library with Haroon and Chris and Ahmad and Hadeel the deejay. We ate together at halal restaurants and celebrated the birth of the Prophet almost every visit. Where Muslims gather, Allah is in their midst. This much I now know is true. 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