Seekers Guidance: Message from Imam Zaid
A few words from Imam Zaid Shakir about Sh Faraz Rabbani’s Seeker’s Guidance educational initiative:
Quicunque Vult, or, A teenage journey to Islam
Shaykh AHM’s journey to Islam…. This memoir is offered, at the persistent request of some Turkish friends, by a monotheist whose formative life was shaped by Anglican Christianity, but who has made his home in Islam. Like the kilis?-camii metaphor in the old Ottoman poetry, which describes a church which has been made into a mosque, such a man is architecturally distinctive, but a symbol of undeserved improvement: he is the m?hted?, the object of guidance, at once a spiritual…
Book: Transcending Jerusalem
I recently set up a website to promote the book Transcending Jerusalem by Peter Stockton. In this book, Peter Stockton, from his perspective as a Muslim, reflects on this troubled history. Hurt by tribalism, idolatry, and human egotism, the city of David, Solomon, Jesus and Muhammad seems to lie at the epicentre of a cosmic drama. Stockton suggests that if Jerusalem is the heart of the world, and that the health of that heart lies only in fidelity to God,…