Jun
6
8:30am
Traditional Islamic Theology with Shaykh Hamza Karamali (Jordan)
By Mizan Avenue
The Bedouin, the Big Bang, and the Kalam Cosmological Argument For the Existence of God
Description: Traditional Muslim arguments for the existence of God come from the Quran and Sunna. Learn how the simple arguments that Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) taught an uneducated Bedouin have been given a new life in Western philosophy because of the discoveries of modern cosmology.
The first of the three-part lecture series scheduled to happen over the space of three months.
About Shaykh Hamza Karamali
Shaykh Hamza Karamali earned his BASc And MASc in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, after which he moved abroad to study the Islamic sciences full-time in private one-on-one settings with distinguished traditional scholars in Jordan, Kuwait, and UAE, reading and memorizing traditional works in all of the Islamic sciences.
He taught the Islamic sciences online at SunniPath.com, then at Qibla.com, then taught advanced Arabic grammar and rhetoric at Qasid Institute, and then joined Kalam Research & Media, where he worked for three years, designing, managing, and participating in research and education projects around the integration of modern analytic philosophy and science with traditional Islamic theology and logic. He is the author of The Madrasa Curriculum in Context, as well as a forthcoming work that presents traditional Islamic logic in the idiom of contemporary logic and philosophy.
He was a senior instructor at SeekersGuidance, where he oversees the Steps curriculum and teaches courses in logic, legal theory, Islamic theology, and Sacred Law. He also produces a regular podcast and video series called Why Islam is True, in which he applies logic and traditional Islamic theology to answer contemporary questions about belief in God, the genuine messengerhood of the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace), and the truth of resurrection and the afterlife.
As an involved father of five children, he has a special interest in the religious education of children and young adults in order to prepare them for their independent lives in the modern world. Over the last three years, he has applied his experiences to the development of religious education programs for the children of a group of religious and conservative parents in Amman, Jordan. Basira Education grew out of these programs as a way to help religious parents all over the world.
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