{"id":35940,"date":"2012-11-29T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_u-s-_dominates_list_of_worlds_500_most_influential_muslims\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:00:40","slug":"rns_u-s-_dominates_list_of_worlds_500_most_influential_muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35940","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) U.S. dominates list of world\u2019s \u201d\u02dc500 Most Influential Muslims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are more Muslims from America than any other country on this year\u2019s \u201cThe Muslim 500: The World\u2019s 500 Most Influential Muslims,\u201d\u009d compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, a respected think tank in Jordan, including two in the top 50.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, a California-born convert who founded Zaytuna College, an Islamic college in Berkeley, Calif., and is a leading Islamic authority in America, ranked No. 42, two places ahead of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic studies professor at George Washington University known for his work in Islamic philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s roughly 2.6 million Muslims are a tiny fraction of the world\u2019s 1.6 billion Muslims, but they took 41 spots on the 500 list&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/faith\/leaders-and-institutions\/u.s.-dominates-list-of-worlds-500-most-influential-muslims\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more Muslims from America than any other country on this year\u2019s \u201cThe Muslim 500: The World\u2019s 500 Most Influential Muslims,\u201d\u009d compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, a respected think tank in Jordan, including two in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35940\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,119,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-globalization","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}