Tayseer Seminary Student Interviews Rahim Ocasio
Student interviews Rahim Ocasio for a report about Alianza Islamica in 2018.

Student interviews Rahim Ocasio for a report about Alianza Islamica in 2018.

Rahim Ocasio’s speech on the history of Alianza Islamica at LALMA‘s Ramadan event in Los Angeles, CA on May 19, 2019.
By Yahya Abdul Latif Figueroa Director, Alianza Islamica Beginnings and starting points are always difficult to determine and become obscured in the pages of bygone days. How and when movements and ideas bloom is never easy to pinpoint. Historical studies of the same period rarely agree on key issues. Nonetheless, the following lines hope to…
By Yahya Figueroa Many of our Muslim answers have become dogmatic, repeating of a few themes someone has kind of understood from some book or the other. Iman (faith) is of course the cornerstone of our Muslim lives. I won’t recant basics of faith, theology and points we believe in. These cardinal points are laid…
By Rahim Ocasio Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah This is a recap of the two day event and my assessment of this historic event. Muhammad Isa Garcia, el argentino who recently translated the Qur’an into Spanish, gave a video introduction from Colombia where he currently resides. Abdullah Danny Hernandez gave the English intro, primarily inspirational, centering…
ALIANZA ISLAMICA, pioneering Latino Muslims in New York City. Giving dawah since the 1970’s. ASWAD (Ancient Sacred Wisdom And Development) at Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood.
By Yahya Figueroa Abdul-Latif Director, Alianza Islamica What was Andalusia? Islam has come full circle in the west today. Daily we hear of various horrible events atrocities unfairly attributed to the noble Quran and Blessed Prophet (PBUH). The insane terrorists and Islamophobic media and politicians share the same distorted propaganda against our faith. A full…