Renovatio: Suffering as Surrender shaykh al-amin ali mazrui From a crescent moon to

From a crescent moon to a square garden to an octagonal fountain

an idea Aristotle left unexplored

Wade (1973)

May be washed on gentle cycle

Sherman Jackson’s Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection takes on that challenge and is to date one of the most important academic studies on Islam in the African-American experience

Renovatio: Suffering as Surrender shaykh al-amin ali mazrui From a crescent moon toIn the Vol. 4, No. 1 issue of Renovatio, our writers from Muslim theologians, to Christian philosophers (past and present), to liberal artists seek to explore and understand the link between suffering and submission to the reality of Gods existence. Table of Contents A Dangerous Schooling Only when a person suffers and wills to learn from what he suffers does he come to know something about himself and about his relationship to God. Sren Kierkegaard