A lecture by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
President, American Sufi Muslim Association

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
12:30 p.m.
auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Peace Studies

There will be a signing after the lecture for Imam Feisal’s book: What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West

Imam Feisal is founder and CEO of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA Society) and Imam of Masjid Al-Farah, a mosque in New York City. He has dedicated his life to building bridges between Muslims and the West and is a leader in the effort to build religious pluralism and integrate Islam into modern American society. He is the architect of the Cordoba Initiative, an inter-religious blueprint for improving relations between America and the Muslim world and pursuing Middle East peace.

Imam Feisal is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders and the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Center of New York. His books include Islam: A Search for Meaning, Islam: A Sacred Law, and What’s Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West. Imam Feisal was born in Kuwait in 1948 into an Egyptian family steeped in religious scholarship. He was educated in England and Malaysia and has a degree in physics from Columbia University. He lives in New York with his wife, Daisy Khan.

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