An enlightening and special Ramadan Series discussing Ummatic themes found in the Quran. Our guests explore key questions related to the Muslim Umma, its distinctiveness, duties, discord and much more. The discussion is led by Dr. Ovamir Anjum, Ummatics Institute founder and Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo.
The halaqa-esque discussion features:
• Aseel Azab, Doctoral student of Islam, society, and culture at Brown University
• Numan.Attique , Imam of the @Hamiltonmountainmosque
• YousufRaza , Founder and CEO of Telepsychiatry Pakistan and a PhD Candidate at the University of West Georgia
Recordings
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Ovamir Anjum
Ovamir Anjum is Chief Research Officer at the Ummatics Institute. He is the author of the article “Who Wants the Caliphate?” published in 2019 at Yaqeen Institute which serves as the provocation for this project. He is professor and endowed chair of Islamic studies in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Toledo, co-editor of the American Journal of Islam and Society (previously known as the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences), and recently appointed editor-in-chief for the review board the Yaqeen Institute. His areas of research include Islamic history, theology, political thought, and history broadly. His publications include Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Ranks of Divine Seekers: Translation of Ibn al-Qayyim’s Madarij al-Salikin(Brill, 2020), first two of four volumes. His selected publications can be accessed at https://utoledo.academia.edu/OvamirAnjum
