Webinar: Truth, Justice, and the Spiritual Way – Imam Ali as Super-hero

"Jacob and His Twelve Sons: An Interfaith Perspective" | The Frick Collection. A panel of faith leaders discuss the Jacob story as told in three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle, on view through April 22. Free with museum admission and online registration is required  

Spoleto’s Exploring Omar discussion series is a free companion to this year’s new opera | Spoleto Buzz. On Thurs. March 12 head to the Main Library at 6 p.m. for: Islam and Enslaved Africans in Early Charleston. Brenda Tindal of the International African American Museum moderates a discussion between Charleston County Public Library’s historian Nic Butler and The New Schools’ professor Hussein Rashid. This year the city celebrates 350 years, which makes it an apt time to discuss all of the city’s history, including the influences of enslaved Africans on the introduction of Islam to the Lowcountry.

Religion and Public Life series – Hussein Rashid. The methods of the Digital Humanities present an opportunity to think about the goals and methods  in the Study of Religion. The emergence of these new tools challenges the ways in which we consider academic work, and the premises around which Study of Religion is built. By broadening  the scope of what we can do with “religious” material, we can more broadly imagine what religion is.