By: Louay M. Safi

Ramadan: Striving for God Consciousness

Ramadan: Striving for God Consciousness

O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may attain taqwa .

Louay M. Safi on Fasting (Sawm) ·

Dr. Louay M. Safi is a Syrian-American, a scholar of Islam and the Middle East, and an advocate of Arab and Muslim American rights. He is the author of 11 books and numerous papers, and speaker on questions of leadership, democracy, Islam, and the Middle East. He is currently a professor at The Qatar Faculty for Islamic Studies in Doha. He has also taught at the International Islamic University in Malaysia and George Washington University in Washington, DC. Safi has served as executive director and Director of Research for the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), editor of the Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and President of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (1999–2003). Safi served as executive director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)....