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Date: Saturday, March 5 鈥� Sunday, March 6, 2022
Time: 10am – 5pm (Saturday) and 10am 鈥� 4pm (Sunday)

Professor Yahya M. Michot is one of the world鈥檚 leading experts on Ibn Taymiyyah. He was director of the Centre for Arabic Philosophy at University of Louvain in Belgium where he has delivered courses in Arabic, History of Arabic Philosophy, History of Muslim Peoples and Institutions of Islam, and Commentary on Arabic Philosophical Texts. His main field of research is the History of Muslim Thought with special reference to Avicenna (Ibn Sina), his predecessors and his impact on Sunni thought and Ibn Taymiyyah. His recent book is 鈥淚bn Taymiyya: Against Extremisms. A Reader鈥�. He is the founder and director of the collection 鈥楽agesses Musulmanes鈥�. Currently he is a retired Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Macdonald Center, Hartford Seminary, USA. For a full list please visit:

Professor Jon Hoover is a specialist on Ibn Taymiyyah. He majored in Theological Studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Indiana, followed by PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Birmingham. He has taught Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut and is currently teaching, researching and supervising Islamic Studies at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Nottingham,UK. His expertise and areas of special interest include Islamic intellectual history, medieval Islamic theology and philosophy, the thought of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and Christian-Muslim relations. Some of publications, articles and journals include: Ibn Taymiyya鈥檚 Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism (2007). Ibn Taymiyya. Oxford Bibliographies Online.(2012) 岣�anbal墨 Theology Oxford Handbooks Online. (2014) Christian-Muslim relations: a bibliographical history. (2012) For a full list please visit:

Yasir Qadhi is the Resident Scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center. He is also the Dean of The Islamic Seminary of America. Yasir graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah. After completing a diploma in Arabic, he graduated with a B.A. from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences, and then completed a M.A. in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah. He then returned to America, and completed a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has authored several books, published academic articles, and appeared on numerous satellite and TV stations around the globe. His online videos are of the most popular and highly-watched Islamic videos in English.

Andrew Booso was born and raised in London, England. After completing a Law degree at the London School of Economics, he has pursued traditional Islamic studies (with pivotal guidance from Shaykh Akram Nadwi) and has edited numerous texts for various Islamic publishers, including Islamic Texts Society and Turath. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Al-Salam Institute, seminar coordinator for Islamic Courses (London) and the director of the Safeenah Fellowship. He had been working on a new edition of the late Shaykh Mustafa al-A鈥榸ami鈥檚 History of the Qur鈥檃nic Text and edited a number of translated texts associated with the Deoband movement by Ashraf Ali Thanawi, Husain Ahmad Madani, Abdullah Gangohi, Taqi Usmani, Salman Mansurpuri and the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind.

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