Ep. 2 - More than Dhikr: Spirituality and the Path to Healing
Discuss how to balance spiritual learning and social and civic engagement with panelists Ustadha Zaynab Mansour Ansari and Shaykh Dr. Hisham Hellyer, moderated by Dr. Abbas Barzegar. In the second part of the Global Conversations series, explore ways to ground political activism and social justice efforts in religious principles and learning!
Creators and Guests
Host
Dr. Abbas Barzegar
Dr. Abbas Barzegar, Ph.D. is National Research and Advocacy Director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. Dr. Barzegar posseses years of applied research experience with recognized expertise in American Muslim history, transnational Muslim civil society and intra-faith relations. He is a former professor at Georgia State University and graduated from Emory University in 2010 in the field of Religious Studies.
Guest
Shaykh Dr. Hisham Hellyer
Shaykh Dr Hisham, a noted scholar and academic of politics & religion internationally, has studied the Islamic intellectual tradition with classically trained scholars in the UK, the Arab world, the Gambia, southeast Asia, and elsewhere.
Guest
Ustadha Zaynab Ansari
Ustadha Zaynab Ansari serves as an adjunct instructor at Boston Islamic Seminary and a full-time instructor at Tayseer Seminary, where she teaches classes on Islamic law, Qur’an & Hadith studies, Prophetic biography, American Muslim history, and women in Islam. She also serves on the boards of the Tayseer Foundation and the Muslim Community of Knoxville.
