Please join us for the special Laylatul-Qadr event at ICCNC. The program includes an English lecture by Br. Ahmad Rashid Salim, Maghreb and Isha Prayers, Iftar, a Farsi lecture by Dr. Hassan Masoud, Dua Jawshan Kabir, special Laytul Qadr ceremony (Ahaya).

Parts of the program, such as the lectures and the special Laylatul Qadr ceremony, will be live-streamed on YouTube.

Also, secure parking is available for the participants at the Scottish Rite Center Parking on Madison Street, a block from the Center.

Biographies

Dr. Hassan Masoud teaches philosophy and logic at the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Masoud has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Alberta, Canada, with a focus on logic and theory of knowledge. He also has a MA in Logic from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His areas of interest are Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Language.

Ahmad Rashid Salim is a doctoral student in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California – Berkeley. His research interests include Persian mystical literature and their epistemologies of Islam. His work attempts to re-read texts as sites of spiritual exegesis, poetics, and socio-political-literary critique. Furthermore, he studies the history, culture, and literature of modern Afghanistan. He looks to interrogate and complicate prevalent notions around literary independence, peripheries of language and imagined pasts in the Persianate world. His book Islam Explained was published by Rockridge Press.