WLL Visiting Scholar Invited to International Conference at Queens College
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq), WLL Research Fellow, was invited to the International Conference on “Revisiting Mamre: The Stranger in the Three Abrahamic Faiths,” at the Queens College of CUNY in New York from December 4rd to 5th, 2017.
This international conference was organized by the Department of Philosophy of Queens College to show how welcoming the stranger constitutes the very essence and original impulse of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Dr. Akhlaq’s paper, titled “Taqlid, Jihad, and Hijra: Beyond Uncritical Imitation and Assimilation”, at the session “The Struggles of Immigration” was received warmly.