by Jonathan Brown Published on 27 July 2016, for Al Madina Institute Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and he is the Associate Director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for… [more] Why does the Quran […]
Do Muslims Have a Problem with helping Blind People with Guide Dogs? After a overly reported incident in right-wing UK media about a Muslim cab driver who reportedly refused to drive a blind man with a Guide Dog. LBC’s Shelagh Fogarty interviews MDI’s Abdullah al Andalusi, asking him […]
At Reading University (UK), Abdullah al Andalusi delivered a lecture rebutting with facts, evidence and anaylsis, the portrayal by Islamophobes, that Islam is the cause of global terrorism and synonymous with it.
MDI comment: Willem Buiter, the chief Economic for the multinational investment banking and financial services corporation Citigroup, is a keen advocate for Islamic Economics, and has criticised the current traditional Western financing as “poor financial design” while praising Islamic solutions to financing peoples’ homes and other developments, as “good financial engineering”. […]
MDI’s Abdullah al Andalusi appeared on the BBC 1 ‘The Big Question’ program on Sunday 29th May 2016, to debate the selected question ‘Did Man Create God?’. The video is available to watch below. Guests: Francesca Stavrakopoulou, professor of ancient religion at Exeter; Elaine Storkey; theologian Tim Whitmarsh, professor […]
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