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Islamic Influences on the Founding Fathers of America

Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

Postponed: this event has moved from October 17 to Saturday, October 24, 2026. The flyer shows the original date.

Explore the Islamic influences on America’s Founding Fathers, and how Muslim scholars and intellectual thought helped shape the growth of knowledge, reason and scientific inquiry in Europe and America.

Free and open to the public

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Finding the Sacred in a Distracted Age

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Islam, Spirituality, and the Modern World. Join DIRI for a special conversation exploring Islam, spirituality, the human search for meaning, and the place of the sacred in the modern world.

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