Islam students at LUC

I must say that I really enjoyed this class. Overall, I think it was one of my favorite literature classes that I have ever taken. Not only were the topics discussed in class interesting, the structure of the class was very effective. I’ll honestly say that I would get lazy with the readings. Yet I [...]

Throughout this course, we have touched upon a wide variety of topics, including what love is, what heaven is, and most importantly what literature is. These are questions that are not typically dealt with in ordinary classes, thus it made this class quite unique and interesting.  I felt like everyone was involved in the discussions, [...]

Majnun’s devotion to Layla was describes as varying adjectives such as selfishness, obsession, beautiful, crazy, and everlasting. And for the most part, I agree with all the terms. However, like others who posted, I was kind of confused about how this book is related to god at first. Then I began to notice that Qays’s [...]

So, I was looking up information and the background of mohammed iqbal to better understand Tulip in the Dessert and came across an amazing quote that was supposedly attributed to iqbal, “if we are resolved to describe islam as a system of superior values, we are obliged, first of all to acknowledge that we are [...]

I thought this was a really interesting discussion and it related some what to another class of mine.  We were talking about the quote “God is Dead” In thus spoke Zarathustra.  The statement is defiantly not anti-religion since Nietzsche, in this writing, seems to find a lot of good in what religion can do for [...]

I think the last class on how everything is related was really interesting.   Through the class I was wondering the same thing.  They all did have a didactic element, for me they all had a calming effect. The first two were defiantly related and were the most difficult to read.  I think this was because [...]

We discussed on Monday night what is literature? what is west ? east ? Muslim world? and all of the themes related to the readings but i felt it was somewhat  a late topic. I mean we should have discussed these topics or ideas before we ventured into the readings and then at the end [...]

The final post of this class. Let’s see. I really liked the last class and how we discussed what is considered the West and what is considered the Muslim World. See this is something I’ve understood quite well, when Professor Mozaffar brought up “whiteness” I knew exactly what he was talking about. It need not [...]

Overall, I really enjoyed this course. Going to it I was a bit apprehensive given my background and my simple uncertainty as to how the readings would be and the students might act toward me. All of my fears were quickly allayed and I am proud to say I had a great time. The readings [...]

A few weeks back my group performed a skit from I believe the Rose Garden. I will reveal my identity now – I was the fool wearing a bra with balloons it it. Now of course I took one for the team and decided to embarrass myself in front of the class (hoping for an [...]