THE WESTERN FRONT: Club hopes to ‘enlighten’ campus about Muslim community

Project Nur, AIC’s student-led campus initiative, expands to Western Washington University. Project Nur program coordinator Tyler Dixon explains why the club is a good fit for the university. “Western is a multicultural and diverse university, and focused on a lot of things that Project Nur is very focused on — intercultural understanding, dialogue, breaking down…

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AIC and Project Nur present Science and Islam at Boston University

WASHINGTON, October 24, 2012 – This evening, AIC and Project Nur, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, will host the second event of the “Science and Islam” series entitled “Reconciling the Islamic Tradition with the Theory of Evolution” at Boston University. The event will feature three panel speakers, all prominent Muslim scientists from U.S.…

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Nidhal Guessom writes on AIC’s ‘Cosmology and Qur’an’ panel at the University of Iowa

IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 9, 2012 – Nidhal Guessoum wrote on the science and religion blog Irtiqa about his role as the Keynote speaker at AIC’s Science and Islam event at the University of Iowa. He discussed the “Cosmology and Qur’an” panel, in which he pointed out that cosmology – historically a field of mysticism – has been…

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AIC and Project Nur debut the Science and Islam series at the University of Iowa

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2012 – This evening, AIC and Project Nur, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, will host the first event of the “Science and Islam” series entitled “Creation of the Universe: Qur’anic Concepts and Scientific Theories” at the University of Iowa. The event will feature three panel speakers, all prominent Muslim scientists…

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