“God is beautiful and loves beauty,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Harvard’s Ali Asani explores various artistic and literary forms to open the sacred, complex, and culturally diverse worlds of Islam. “The arts help to humanize cultures where political discourse based on nationalist ideologies tend to dehumanize,” Asani says. This event took place October 29, 2013 at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Earlier related: Muslim Journeys with Professor Ali Asani, Kansas, October 29, 2013