Conference on Islam – Islam, World Peace, and September 11th
Dr. Jamal Badawi
Friday, 29 Mar 2002 at 7:45 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Dr. Jamal Badawi, born in Egypt, is a professor of Management at Saint Mary University in Halifax, where he teaches a course on Islamic religious tradition. Dr. Badawi has also taught a course on Islam at Stanford University and gave a series of lectures on the Quran at Oxford University (UK). He has authored several books and articles on Islam and designed and participated in the production of nearly 350 half-hour segments of a television series on Islam. He is an expert in Christian-Muslim dialogues, a member of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Fiqh Council, and the director of the Islamic Information Foundation in Halifax, Canada, a nonprofit educational foundation.
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