{"id":2,"date":"2006-12-01T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-12-10T01:19:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T06:19:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peace on you all,<\/p>\n<p>I am a third-year student at Harvard Law School, an aspiring trial attorney, and a practicing Muslim.\u00a0 This blog contains primarily my thoughts on Islam and how\u00a0Muslims from all walks of life might learn from one another and collaborate in better understanding Islamic legal and ethical principles.\u00a0 The goal of this blog is to\u00a0promote an Islamic Democracy Project, which will open up online laboratories and forums for Muslims to engage one another.\u00a0 The underlying premise of my arguments is that opening up a multitude of voices in the Muslim community will offer great benefits to all of us, spiritually and socially.<\/p>\n<p>For every argument that I make, I hope to read many more from you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Tawfiq Ali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace on you all, I am a third-year student at Harvard Law School, an aspiring trial attorney, and a practicing Muslim.\u00a0 This blog contains primarily my thoughts on Islam and how\u00a0Muslims from all walks of life might learn from one another and collaborate in better understanding Islamic legal and ethical principles.\u00a0 The goal of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/islamicdemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}