Overcoming Differences: Our Ultimate Goal is to Worship Allah | Dr. Hatem Bazian
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 21/10/2022

Dr. Hatem Bazian delivers a Khutbah giving comforting spiritual insights about bridging the gaps that divide us with the common denominator of faith.

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This sermon was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California, on October 21, 2022.

Dr. Hatem Bazian is a scholar of religion, politics, and globalization whose field specialties include Islamic Law, Awqaf and Fatawa Texts, Classical Arabic, Palestine, Islamophobia, Diaspora and Comparative Immigration, American Law and Society, Arab and Arab American Studies, Race Theory and History, Colonialism, Post-Colonial and De-colonial Studies, Ethnic Studies, Multi-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Studies, International Relations and Globalization, Social and Political Movement, Comparative Liberation Theologies, Languages, and Media. 

Dr. Bazian is also a professor in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adviser to the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Center there. Before his post at Zaytuna College, he taught at UC Berkeley School of Law; UC Davis; San Francisco State University, Graduate Theological Union; Saint Mary’s College; and Diablo Valley College. 

Dr. Bazian earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Near Eastern Studies in 2000. His Ph.D. thesis, “Al-Quds in Islamic Consciousness: A Textual Survey of Muslim Claims and Rights to the Sacred City,” contributes to a better understanding of Muslim attachment and informed political attitudes toward the sacred city of Jerusalem and Palestine in general. 

Dr. Bazian is fluent in Arabic and can read and write in Persian, Turkish, and German. 

He joined the Zaytuna College faculty in 2009.  

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