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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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21 September 2013

America's First Muslim Celebrity

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Abdul Rahman's tour of the North made him the most famous African in America and a flashpoint of controversy in the increasingly ugly 1828 presidential campaign. Throughout the tour, Abdul Rahman encountered millionaires, governors, congressmen, ministers, abolitionists, even a president-the leading men of the day. In all these meetings, Abdul Rahman treated the men as peers and equals, acting always with the dignity of a prince. In turn, his own nobility of spirit was recognized by many of those he met.
Implausibly, the first Muslim to be received at the White House who was not a foreign dignitary was in fact an African slave who had endured hard labor for thirty-nine years. Through a set of amazing “coincidences” Abd al-Rahman Ibrahim (“Abraham, son of the All-Merciful”) had been released by his Mississippi master to be sent back to Africa, but to…
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10 September 2013

Power, Religion and the Central African Republic

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People on the run in Central African Republic. Photo: UNHCR/Djerassem Mbaiorem
When thousands upon thousands of Europeans were slaughtered during the Thirty Year War in the 17th century was it about the theological differences between Catholics and Protestants? Or more recently, when these two Christian sects were bombing each other in Northern Ireland, was it really about “religion”? Theology did have a bearing on the conflicts somewhere in the very beginning,…
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24 August 2013

A Revolution in Jeopardy (3)

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A pro-Morsi demo two days after the coup; the poster of Morsi reads, “Yes to legitimacy”
Robert Fisk, veteran correspondent and skilled raconteur of the region’s ongoing sagas, said it best on the day when the Egyptian army mowed down over 600 mostly peaceful pro-Morsi demonstrators:   “The Egyptian crucible has broken. The 'unity' of Egypt – that all-embracing, patriotic, essential glue that has bound the nation together since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952…
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02 August 2013

A Revolution in Jeopardy (2)

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Picture taken by blog author, Assistant Professor Sarah Eltantawi, who spent a whole day in late July 2013 in Tahrir Square interviewing pro-Sisi supporters.
In my first blog I wrote about the different parties to Egypt’s current political crisis in the aftermath of the military coup that deposed President Morsi. I also tried to provide historical background to make better sense of the present dynamics. This crisis has generated so much commentary on all sides that I decided to write three blogs on the…
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