What Do We Owe Others: To Struggle Together
In The Book of Pious Abstention (Kitāb al-Waraʿ) Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 855 CE) is asked what to do if one is in a mosque during Ramadan and a person comes around with (burning) incense…
Dr. Ingrid Mattson is a Canadian scholar of Islamic Studies and a Muslim community leader. She earned a PhD in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1999. From 1998 to 2012 she was Professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary (CT) where she developed and directed the first accredited program for Muslim chaplains in North America. Since 2012, she has been the London & Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Theology at Huron University College in London, Canada. Her writings focus primarily Qur’an Studies, Islamic theological ethics and interfaith relations. From 2001-2010 Dr. Mattson served as Vice-President, then as President of the Islamic Society of North America (USA). In 2018, Dr. Mattson founded the research and educational initiative, the Hurma Project, to prevent and respond to violations of trust and spiritual abuse in Muslim Spaces: https://hurmaproject.com.
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