Where Have All The Saints Gone?
Channel: Renovatio: The Journal of Zaytuna College
Date: 2017-11-22

A conversation about saints and sainthood, between Imam Zaid Shakir of Zaytuna College and Aisha Gray Henry of Fons Vitae.

Aisha Gray-Henry is the Founder and Director of the charitable foundation and publishing company Fons Vitae. Fons Vitae is currently engaged in the monumental task of bringing out Ghazali’s Ihya in readable English for parents and teachers as well as adapting it to accommodate children’s workbooks, school curricula, and an instructional DVD. The Book of Knowledge and The Principles of the Creed educational sets are available and in use internationally with Purity and Prayer nearing completion. Included is a children’s interactive website www.GhazaliChildren.org, a pilot school project and prison program. Translations into Urdu, Arabic, and Malay are underway. The Fons Vitae Ghazali Project has been launched with great acclaim in Morocco, Canada, Indonesia, England, and the USA so far.

Zaid Shakir is a senior faculty member and co-founder of Zaytuna College, Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim undergraduate college in the USA. He converted to Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force and obtained a BA summa cum laude in International Relations, MA in Political Science, and then pursued studies in Arabic, Islamic law, Qur’anic studies, and spirituality in the Muslim world. He is an influential Islamic scholar in the West and a voice of conscience for American Muslims and non-Muslims alike. He founded the New Brunswick Islamic Center (formerly Masjid al-Huda) in New Jersey, Masjid al-Islam in Connecticut, the Tri-State Muslim Education Initiative, the Connecticut Muslim Coordinating Committee, the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California, and United for Change.