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Part I (Download)

  1. Dr. Jonathan Brown lecture at the Islamic Institute of Orange City (2009).  http://vimeo.com/7216747

    In this video Professor Jonathan Brown, of Georgetown University, provides a very informative introduction to the Islamic science of Hadith, or the sayings and actions of the Prophet Mohammed. Dr Brown offers a convincing argument that the process of recording and analyzing Hadith is one of the greatest scholarly accomplishments in human history.

  2. Dr. Ebrahim Moosa speaks at Georgetown University (2010). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVLKxgBUsQ&feature=plcp

    In this panel on Islam and liberal democracy Dr. Ebrahim Moosa, of Duke University, urges us to move away from a notion of “tradition” that is based only on authority.

  3. Pakistani spiritual singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0EqAWHGdg

    This is a stirring example of one of the many art forms that animates modern Sufism.

  4. Youssou N’Dour live in Paris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_xw-c6i0AM

    Youssou N’Dour of Senegal wows a Parisian crowd with his spiritual and popular music.

  5. Dr. Omid Safi lectures at the Rumi Forum in Washington, DC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgdd14ev7ak

    Professor Omid Safi, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offers his interpretation of the life and works of the great Sufi writer Rumi at the Rumi Forum.

Part II (Download)

This is a compilation of videos in which Yusuf al-Qaradawi expresses his views on suicide bombing. In Arabic with English subtitles.

360 Vision presents an in-depth discussion with Amina Wadud. This is the theologian’s first television interview since becoming the first Muslim woman in the world to lead mixed-gender prayer in public.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam follows Michael Knight, author of a book by the same name, on a journey of religious discovery and punk rock. This video gives a brief look at a numerically minor but spiritually vital Muslim subculture: punk Islam.

Not long after he took office in 2008 President Barack Obama gave this speech to the Muslim world. While he sought to heal wounds between the United States and the Muslim world, the President was criticized for failing to appreciate the full diversity of Islam and Muslims.

In this speech commemorating the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Duke University Professor Bruce Lawrence takes us through a decade of brightening hopes.

  1. Yusuf al-Qaradwi on the Memri TV Project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2PSbGLJjV4
  2. Amina Wadud on 360 Vision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzkNgMTKkP8
  3. Trailer: Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkaqHhmpws
  4. President Barak Obama speech in Cairo (2009). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_889oBKkNU
  5. Bruce Lawrence speech at Hartford Seminary (2011). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpKyPgg7sWU

Part III (Download)

  1. Dr. Mohsen Kadivar speaks at Duke University. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGfH7IsoIr4

    In this video Professor Mohsen Kadivar, of Duke University, responds to audience questions about his talk, “Evolution of the Relationship of Islam and the State in Post-Revolutionary Iran.”

  2. Al Jazeera English video on the law against the veil in France (2011). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfQQQtclCQ

    This segment on Al Jazeera English introduces viewers to a French Muslim woman who wears the “full face veil,” which, at the time of filming, was about to be banned by law. The video considers the consequences for such women.

  3. Dr Sherman Jackson speaks at the Annual Banquet of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (2012). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUAQdRmusGE

    In this video Dr Sherman Jackson, of the University of Southern California, discusses CAIR’s mission and encourages audience members to understand problems of Islamophobia as problems that affect all Americans.

  4. Al Jazeera English on Turkey’s Islamic hotels (2007). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fm-bf79Rv8

    In this video an Al Jazeera reporter provides an informative and entertaining look at some of the new kinds of amenities that are springing up to support Turkey’s new religious middle and upper-middle classes.

  5. Tariq Ramadan on Al Jazeera English [2010]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S-7sgbOt3k

    Once banned from the United States, influential Muslim thinker Tariq Ramadan traveled to the US soon after the election of President Obama and sat down with Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan.  In this video he discusses the problems that still face Muslims in America and Europe.  He takes on issues related to Islamophobia and secularism and argues against the idea that there is a conflict between Islam and the West.