CIS | Center for Islamic Studies

Hosted in partnership with the Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation, this annual service gathers local and national interfaith leaders around a theme in Dr. King’s life and work. This year’s theme is “Justice and Hope.”

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Hosted by:

The Right Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus
Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of California

The 2021 King & Faith Series featured three virtual programs to inspire contemplation of two primary concepts central to Dr. King's message, justice and hope. The King & Faith Colloquy featured NorcalMLK executive director, Aaron Grizzell, hosting two imminent theologians, the Rev. Valerie Miles-Tribble, associate professor of ministerial leadership and practical theology at Berkeley Theological Seminary, and the Rev. Dorsey Odell Blake, sr.

Please join Rabbi Yonatan Cohen and Dr. Ahmed Khater as we consider the challenges that the pandemic has posed to traditional forms of assembly and the way in which Muslim and Jewish religious leaders have helped to forge the possibility of assembly in a time of social distance.

Deena Aranoff, Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, and Munir Jiwa, Director of the Center for Islamic Studies, will moderate.

On the occasion of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) marking the end of the blessed Hajj season, CIS wishes you Eid Mubarak. Prayers for everyone’s good health, safety and unity. With gratitude, peace and blessings, your friends at CIS.

Join a one day virtual conference as scholars provide analysis at this crisis moment around the globe. Presented by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UCB led by Dr. Hatem Bazian and co-sposored by the GTU's Center for Islamic Studies.

Speakers include:

The Center for Islamic Studies is pleased to share that GTU doctoral student Sundiata Al Rashid will be presenting at this event organized by the Northern California Islamic Council.

Speakers include: Alia Sharief, Babalwa Kwanelle, Imam Abu Qadir AlAmin, Imam Faheem Shuaibe, Amir Sundiata Rashid, Dr. Hatem Bazian, and Cheryl Davila.

Open air & social distancing prayer.

For more information, view the event listing on Facebook. 

Dear Friends,

As-salaamu alaikum, greeting of peace.
 
I am delighted to share with you that we have 6 graduates in the Class of 2020 who have completed their MA or PhD in Islamic Studies:

On the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the blessed month of Ramadan, CIS wishes you Eid Mubarak. Prayers for everyone’s good health, well-being, safety and unity. With gratitude, peace, and blessings, your friends at CIS.

Our distinguished panel—led by Michael Pappas and which includes Mahjabeen Dhala, a religious motivational speaker, who is pursuing a doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union; the Rt. Reverend William Swing, president and founding trustee of the United Religions Initiative (URI), and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, Ph.D. assistant professor of Jewish studies at GTU—will discuss the connections among the the Abrahamic faiths, the unfortunate general lack of knowledge of the others' histories, cultures, and beliefs, and how increased understanding, tolerance, acceptance, respect, etc.