Leonard Lectures on What Americans Need To Know About Islam

By popular request, East Tennessee State University has added an extra Basler lecture to their current series.

Graham Leonard, PhD currently holds the Basler Chair for Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Sciences and Rhetoric at the East Tennessee university. The newest lecture will tackle the topic, “What Americans Need to Know About Islam.”

Dr. Graham Leonard, from Kingsport, has served UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as an adviser on teacher education for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), West Bank; worked in Jerusalem as management officer of the Program for Assistance to the Palestinian People through the United Nations Development Program; taught at a variety of institutions in the U.S., England, China and the Middle East; and acted as a consultant on education, the Middle East and other topics.

In the lecture, Leonard will speak about how Islam is essentially a religion of practice, discuss the basic requirements of Islam, and outline Islam’s teachings.

This lecture will follow the previous four topics, which were: “Origins of the Problems in the Middle East: An Overview,” “Arabic and Islamic Origins of the Italian Renaissance,” “Differences in the ways of thinking in the Middle East from the West” and “Modernizing Education vs. Westernizing Schooling.”

The lecture will be given at the Kingsport Public Library, April 15 and 22 at 1:30 p.m.

The four previous Basler lectures are available on I Tunes U (ETSU) as will the fifth once it has been given.

To download the lectures, click here.