How to Read a Book by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

"How to Read a Book", a Zaytuna Faculty Lecture by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.

The Zaytuna Faculty Lecture Series presents lectures by Zaytuna College faculty members exploring a variety of contemporary topics. zaytunacollege.org/

Link to Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read a Book: mathscinotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Adl…

Contents:
0:0:18 Bismillah (Adrian Wood)
0:0:29 Introduction of Program and Speaker
0:02:42 Opening Dua (Sheikh Hamza Yusuf)
0:03:16 How to Read A Book
0:06:13 The Empowerment of Mortimer Adler
0:10:20 Understanding Language
0:19:00 Three Objectives of Reading:
0:19:01 (I) Entertainment
0:23:26 (II) Information
0:24:25 (III) Understanding
0:30:00 The Definition of Reading
0:36:55 The Value of Reading
0:42:16 Dead and Living Teachers
0:46:04 Three Basic Ways of Reading:
0:46:14 (I) Structurally
0:48:55 (II) Interpretively/(III) Critically
0:51:37 A Poem by Piercy B Shelley
0:56:48 Analysis

Q/A
01:07:06
01:12:40 Logic, Rhetoric and Grammar
01:23:45 Closing Statements

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The Zaytuna Faculty Lecture Series presents lectures by Zaytuna College faculty members exploring a variety of contemporary topics. zaytunacollege.org/

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