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The projects on display in the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Office were created by the 55 students in Culture and Belief 12, “For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature, and the Arts in Muslim Culture.”
The class’s professor, Associate Director of the Islamic Studies Program Ali S. Asani ’77, said that creating this course would have been impossible without the freedom granted by the Program in General Education, which encourages creative assignments and interdisciplinary learning.
Islamic culture is most commonly studied through a social or political lens, Asani said, both of which are premised on the idea of Islam as “the other.”
For the first project, which is now on display, students learned from Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and culture, to write “Allah” in Arabic script and were told to represent a concept associated with God in the Islamic tradition through any media...
Over 60 people, including University President Drew G. Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, attended the opening, said Islamic Studies Program Administrator Clifford Gardner.