Leo Baeck College and the Scriptural Reasoning Society
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Muhammad is an academic and an Imam, and teaches the course "Introduction to Classical Study of the Quran" for rabbis, rabbinical students, and Jewish community leaders at Leo Baeck College, London. His academic research is on comparative medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Karaite approaches to exegesis of Scripture, and he has a strong personal commitment and life vocation to challenging anti-semitism/Judaephobia where it arises in Muslim contexts.
The Quran: Interpretation and Anti-Semitism
Session 1 of 2
Global History & Culture,
Jewish Education,
Text & Thought
The Islamic Quran is full of Jewish narratives from the Tanakh and midrash, and Islam's Jewish origins are so vivid and clear. What then are the origins of Muslim Judaeophobia/Anti-Semitism, and can an understanding of the way Islamic scholarship interprets its sacred text provide insight into ways of challenging such Islamic extremism against Jewish people? Interactive seminar and text study.
The Quran: An Islamic Mandate for Eretz Yisroel
Session 2 of 2
Israel,
Jewish Education,
Text & Thought
It comes as an astonishing surprise to Jewish people to discover that the Quran and all the classical Muslim commentators from the earliest centuries of Islam clearly and unambigously state that Eretz Yisroel is given to the Jewish people as an eternal covenant. This seminar and interactive workshop explores classical Islamic exegesis of the Islamic scripture on the Quranic mandate for Israel.
"Yucky" Texts
How We Deal With the Hard Stuff in the Jewish and Muslim Traditions
Muhammad Al-Hussaini,
Gregg Drinkwater,
Robin Hanssen
Jewish Education,
Text & Thought
Many educators and lay people alike find many parts of the Bible and other classical Jewish texts challenging, if not downright disturbing. How do we deal with these texts in our classrooms and our daily lives? Do we re-interpret them, skip over them, or get angry at them?
This roundtable will suggest some ways of dealing with what we are calling "yucky texts," not because they are inherently yucky, but because they are the texts that cause us trouble and discomfort.
