My apologies for the longer delay between posts of late – but I will have plenty of grist for the blogging mill this upcoming month. I have been honored with an invitation to attend the 2011 US – Islamic World Forum, co-hosted by the Brookings Institution and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the State…

Today is International Women’s Day 2011 – and in the twitter age, the best way to take the global pulse of the event is via hashtag, specifically #internationalwomensday. The most important event occurring today is in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt – where a demonstration of Egyptian women is out in force to assert women’s…

Last week I posted the transcript of Yusuf al Qaradawi’s sermon at Tahrir Square in Egypt, a sermon notable for its embrace of political moderation and Egyptian nationalism. Qaradawi made his appeal not just to muslims, but to all Egyptians, explicitly inclusive of the Coptic minority. It really was a remarkable speech, far more important…

Dr. Yahya Michot, professor at Hartford Seminary with the collaboration of student Samy Metwally, has prepared a complete translation along with an introductory analysis of Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi’s khutbah (sermon) in Tahrir Square on February 18, 2011. Here is the PDF with the analysis and the translation. I am reproducing the translation of Qaradawi’s sermon…

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