ID#: 2440 Mar 4-5 : Houston : An Exploration in Divine Rhetoric

Risala Foundation is pleased to announce the visit of Hisham Mahmoud, a lecturer at Harvard and one of the leading young minds in the USA. He will teach you in a dynamic way that will inspire you.

An Exploration in Divine Rhetoric: An Introduction to Drawing Meaning from the Qur'an through its Coherence, Script, and Language and the Etiquette of Approaching the Revealed Book

Join us for an enlightening series of lectures that bring the Qur'an to life via concrete examples that inspire an increased appreciation of the Book that makes things clear.

You will learn how to draw meaning from the Qur'an through its coherence, script, language and etiquette.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12  (Venue:  Masjid Al-Mustafa)

 Ø  Khutbah @ 1:30 PM by Hisham Mahmoud

 Ø Session begins @ 8 PM - "The Qur'an:  An Exploration in Divine Rhetoric"

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 (Venue:  Masjid As-Sabireen)

Ø Session continues @ 8 PM - "The Qur'an:  An Exploration in Divine Rhetoric"

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

HISHAM MAHMOUD has studied the traditional disciplines of Islam, including theology, hadith, legal theory, jurisprudence, Qur'anic recitation, and ethics with scholars in the Muslim world, and he continues to read in these sciences with his teachers and with students in the United States. He has edited several scholarly works in Islamic Studies and his first published work is his translation of a seminal commentary on Imam al-Tirmidhi's Kitab al-Shama'il, entitled "A Portrait of the Prophet." Currently, Hisham Mahmoud is a Lecturer at Harvard University, and he has previously held positions at Princeton, Yale, and Middlebury.