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Education at Zaytuna

 
 
Major Summer Arabic Program Launched
Zaytuna Institute has unveiled a major educational offering, the Summer Arabic Intensive, an eight-week residential program designed to build students’ Arabic language skills... Read More
 
 
Minara Presents Fresh – and Familiar – Faces
Zaytuna’s Minara program kicked off a busy quarter with a stop in Scottsdale, Arizona, for a two-day workshop on “Agenda to Change Our Condition” held at the Islamic Center of North East Valley... Read More
 
 
Seminary Students to Graduate from Pilot Seminary Program
Seventeen-year-old Ebadur Rahman arrived in Northern California from New York City  in 2004 not knowing what to expect from a relatively unknown college program. He was a graduate of New York’s elite...
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Zaytuna Publications
 
 
A Poem from the Past, a Book for the Present
Following the successful release last year of The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi, work is near completion on the second installment of the Zaytuna Curriculum Series, The Helping Guide: Concerning Essential... Read More
 
 
Seasons Focuses on Human Rights, Islamic Law, and Disbelief
The relationship between the modern human rights movement and Islam, the contemporary relevance of Islam’s core legal maxims, and the Muslim understanding of disbelief are... Read More
 
 
Man of Verse
He went from a Lawrence Ferlinghetti-published poet and playwright living in ‘60s-era Berkeley, to a Muslim convert who renounced poetry and traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa in the 1970s, to a poet...
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In the Public Eye
 
 
Zaytuna Scholars Crisscross Globe in Pursuit of Mutual Understanding
The first months of 2008 kept Zaytuna and its scholars busy engaging the public, both in the United States and abroad... Read More

 
Islam and the Self
 
 
Bridges into Divine Light
To enjoy the divine light of God in its fullest is to strip oneself of every barrier that separates the human being from the splendor of the divine. Islamic education stresses the importance of the... Read More
 
Zaytuna Store
 
 
The Zaytuna Institute is pleased to offer a wide array of new Zaytuna publications and Zaytuna productions... Read More
 
Supporting Zaytuna Institute
 
 
“The Future of Islam in America is the Real Issue”
Maqbool and Farnaz Halepota, who grew up in Pakistan, are firmly embedded in the Scottsdale, Arizona, community, having landed there a few years ago after time spent in New York and Kentucky... Read More
 
Ask a Scholar
 
 
“Let the Data Lead the Discourse”
We spoke with Dr. John Esposito about his new book, Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, which was co-authored with Dalia Mogahed and presents the findings of the Gallup Poll... Read More