Dear
Brother Mazin,
Assalamu alaykum. Thank you for your e-mails of January 13 and 31. I
am in the process of moving into a new office and also preparing for a trip toEurope , but I promise to visit your website, www.mrc.8k.com, and give any comments, in
sha'a Allah.
That evening in Madina was enjoyable. I was surprised to hear that a department on Western scholarship on Islam existed, even though you indicated that it now is no longer really functional. This is a tragedy, because the Muslims and non-Muslims must understand each other and the obstacles to dialogue before they can cooperate to address the threats to religion worldwide and to their respective faiths, and thereby to advance the cause of justice, which is central to Islam.
My Center for Policy Research is supporting a conference, entitled "East-West Symposium:America
The date, as I recall, is April 26-28th. We would like to sponsor you to participate in this conference. As soon as we have a printed program and details, I will mail you the invitation, together with some other materials. What is your postal address?
One of the items I will mail to you is the first issue of a new magazine, The American Muslim, which is the confessed "mouthpiece" of the Ikhwan movement inAmerica America
This American Muslim was the brainchild of Sr. Sheila Musaji, and at the end had sixteen associate editors, each responsible for a different area of interest. I was associate editor for political affairs. They included all the leading Muslim scholars born inAmerica
Unfortunately, its very success, and the fact that it was so heavily oriented toward American-born Muslims, caused the Ikhwan to boycott it, so it received no financial support (American Muslims are almost universally poor), and folded four years ago. My aim was to help Sister Sheila revive it, which I may do under another name, Tamkin, which means to "empower" truth and justice. I deliberately work with both the Ikhwan and the non-Ikhwan (including various Sufi orders), but this is a difficult task.
We will have a single umma inAmerica
only when the second-generation
Muslims take the national leadership positions and leave behind the cultural and
political baggage that has burdened the Islamic movement in America
My life-time goal is to help launch an American Islamist movement, which would build on the insights of Hassan al Banna, but apply them creatively inAmerica
whereas we specialize on scholarly articles of several thousand words.
Perhaps this summer, in sha'a Allah, the CPR will put out the first issue of The Traditionalist Review, which will spell out the aims of the new Islamist movement inAmerica
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmat Allahi wa barakatuhu,
Faruq 'Abd al Haqq (Bob Crane)
Assalamu alaykum. Thank you for your e-mails of January 13 and 31. I
am in the process of moving into a new office and also preparing for a trip to
That evening in Madina was enjoyable. I was surprised to hear that a department on Western scholarship on Islam existed, even though you indicated that it now is no longer really functional. This is a tragedy, because the Muslims and non-Muslims must understand each other and the obstacles to dialogue before they can cooperate to address the threats to religion worldwide and to their respective faiths, and thereby to advance the cause of justice, which is central to Islam.
My Center for Policy Research is supporting a conference, entitled "East-West Symposium:
The date, as I recall, is April 26-28th. We would like to sponsor you to participate in this conference. As soon as we have a printed program and details, I will mail you the invitation, together with some other materials. What is your postal address?
One of the items I will mail to you is the first issue of a new magazine, The American Muslim, which is the confessed "mouthpiece" of the Ikhwan movement in
This American Muslim was the brainchild of Sr. Sheila Musaji, and at the end had sixteen associate editors, each responsible for a different area of interest. I was associate editor for political affairs. They included all the leading Muslim scholars born in
Unfortunately, its very success, and the fact that it was so heavily oriented toward American-born Muslims, caused the Ikhwan to boycott it, so it received no financial support (American Muslims are almost universally poor), and folded four years ago. My aim was to help Sister Sheila revive it, which I may do under another name, Tamkin, which means to "empower" truth and justice. I deliberately work with both the Ikhwan and the non-Ikhwan (including various Sufi orders), but this is a difficult task.
We will have a single umma in
My life-time goal is to help launch an American Islamist movement, which would build on the insights of Hassan al Banna, but apply them creatively in
whereas we specialize on scholarly articles of several thousand words.
Perhaps this summer, in sha'a Allah, the CPR will put out the first issue of The Traditionalist Review, which will spell out the aims of the new Islamist movement in
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmat Allahi wa barakatuhu,
Faruq 'Abd al Haqq (Bob Crane)
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