3-Part Lecture Series Entitled “Islam and Muslims”

Brown Bag Lunches held in Brattleboro’s  River Garden. The topics were:
The Last Prophet  The faith of Islam, its theology and tenets, its relationship to Judaism and Christianity, and its attitudes towards Muhammad, the prophets of Israel, and Jesus.
The Rise of A New World Order  How a spiritual and social movement morphed into a culture and civilization as it spread across the globe, its evolution both in politics and society.
The Fall and The Renaissance  The rise and fall and the resurgence of Muslim societies in the modern age, how Muslims responded to Western colonialism, imperialism and the Cold War, and the ongoing struggle to reframe the rationales for sustaining traditional values in the Post-Cold War world and Post- Industrial 21st Century.