Please join us on Saturday, October 2, 2021, at 8:00 PM to commemorate the demise of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICCNC events continue to be held on Zoom. Click here to enter the Zoom Meeting for the event.
The guest speakers for the event are Br. R. David Coolidge (English) and Seyed Amir Akrami (Farsi). The title of the Frasi lecture is رسالت پیامبر.
Biographies
R. David Coolidge is currently a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. From 2008-2013 he worked as a Muslim chaplain, first at Dartmouth College and then at Brown University. From 2014-2017 he taught an undergraduate course on Islamic law and ethics at New York University. He has served on the boards of various American Muslim institutions, including Zaytuna College and Taleef Collective.
Dr. Seyed Amir Akrami is an Iranian scholar with research interests that includeIslamic philosophy and inter-religious relations. Currently based at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (Tehran), he was a visiting professor at the Eastern Mennonite University Center for Interfaith Engagement from 2012 to 2015. He has also been a lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and a member of the Iranian Institute of Philosophy. Akrami holds a B.A. in Islamic studies, M.A. in religion and mysticism, and Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion.
