THE GRANADA PROJECT

By: The Granada Team

Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

“…the violence which governed the ordering of the colonial world, which tirelessly punctuated the destruction of the indigenous social fabric, and demolished unchecked the systems of reference of the country’s economy, lifestyles, and modes of dress, the same violence will be vindicated and appropriated when, taking history into their own hands, the colonized swarm into the forbidden cities…”

- STATEMENT -

As for what we are about, in one sentence:

We at Granada are about uncovering that which imposes itself upon the Ummah today…

…politically

…ideologically

… philosophically

…historically

…scientifically

&

…religiously

It is not that  everything we discover, that imposes itself, we naturally oppose. But, instead, we present it back to our community as a problem: “what about this…”

… we are simply denaturalizing the world and the Ummah  as it is today

& asking who we as an Ummah

are today…

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- OBJECTIVES -

bismilliah arRahman arRahim

Granada, Andalusia, was throughout its Islamic era a city cornered by its own worth and beauty. Till this day the inventive Masjids and paradisial gardens of its once distinguished past populate and embellish its hills. Beyond these material relics, however, Granada’s most enduring and empowering legacy exists in the spirit that inspired its direction within its most enlightening of moments, that of ‘A Practiced Insight’ or a discourse of ‘Fiqh’. This spirit was characterised by an ethic of service, situated within the conviction that a reciprocal relationship existed between the improvement of the believer and the community before a higher objective. This spirit was further animated by a principled insight into a context: a belief that one should pursue a higher objective through an activity that was both loyal to ones own Worldview and mindful of the many exigencies, particularities and peculiarities that converged at any one moment to produce a context. It is this secret that the last Muslim power in Spain, Granada, inherited from revelation and has bequeathed to us, and it is this spirit which we embrace as a source of our intellectual revival.

The Granada Project represents a core of students and professionals that are currently attempting to introduce cultures into the Muslim community that have the ability to empower its members. By cultures, we mean modalities of ‘thinking in practice’ that reflect both our principles and the contexts we are a part of.

The first culture we are trying to create and sustain is one of critical movement. That is, we are striving to generate community movement that incorporates a critical and insightful understanding of our society.

It is our hope that out of this culture a movement will emerge that will be able to service our community by providing it with an experienced understanding of our society.

Granada Project is an inclusive space that we invite Muslim students and professionals of any background to contribute to.

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