Organizer: UWS MSA
Allah & Evolution
A Muslim making sense of Evolution
The influence of Darwin’s ‘Dangerous Idea’ is unquestionable, it permeates our contemporary culture. Similarly it has its influence on theism and our understanding of religion, positively and negatively. How then are we as Muslims to approach evolution scripturally and intellectually? is it to be rejected or accommodated? This lecture will hopefully address important issues some of which include: Islamic understandings of knowledge and its sources, deep time, indeterminateness, and human origins.
An event not to be missed!
Date: 5th of April, Friday
Location: University of Western Sydney Bankstown Campus
Address: 2 Bullecourt Avenue, Milperra 2214
Speaker: Sh. Naeem Abdul Wali
Room: 23.G.30 (Lecture Theatre 4)
Time: 6:00pm – 10:45pm
Cost: FREE ENTRY
Refreshments and food will be provided on the night.
Sh. Naeem Abdul Wali was born Gary Edwards in Crossville, Tennessee, USA, but grew up in Indiana. He embraced Islam while attending Purdue University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Entomology.
In 1991 he moved to Medina, Saudi Arabia, to begin a series of studies in Islamic disciplines. After two years he pursued further studies in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey under various traditional scholars including his spiritual director Sh.Mahmud Ustaosmanoglu (popularly known as Mahmud Effendi).
Since receiving his traditional certication (Ijaza) to teach the disciplines & texts he studied he has taught in the United Kingdom, Western Europe, United States, Canada and Australia.
He currently resides in Houston, Texas, with his family and is the resident scholar at Sunna Institute.
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