Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf is a Sufi imam and founder of the Cordoba Initiative, which advocates improved understanding and trust between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans. He experienced the tensions of integration firsthand, at the center of the controversy over plans to build a cultural and community center near the World Trade Center site in Manhattan.

Islam in America

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on May 15, 2012

  • John R. Bowen
  • Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Christopher Lydon
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