Lunch and Learn
Adeyinka 'Muhammad' Mendes is the Resident Scholar and Imam at the Muslim Center of Greater Princeton. He is a native Ohioan of Yoruba, Brazilian, and African-American ancestry who also spent some of his formative years in Nigeria and Houston, Texas, where he embraced Islam as a path to the Divine at the age of 17 following a life changing journey to Jerusalem. He has a background of working with interfaith, Muslim, academic, permacultural, peace-building, as well as youth rites of passage institutions and initiatives. Adeyinka's studies and work have taken him to countries around the world including Syria, Mauritania, Morocco, Singapore, Turkey, Senegal, Malaysia, and back to Nigeria. He has studied the practice of sacred meditation, received a degree in Arabic Language and Cultural Studies from the Ohio State University, and has been trained for over two decades in the spiritual, scholastic, and artistic traditions of Muslim civilization by traditional Muslim scholars and academics from around the world. Adeyinka is particularly passionate about uplifting youth, empowering women, and inspiring African-Americans with knowledge of their spiritual and intellectual legacy in order to build that more just, compassionate, and sacred world for which our hearts yearn. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife and children.
These monthly gatherings serve as a means for community building, to sit down and learn about our community members and their life's work, and to break bread with one another. Come and sit with teachers and scholars, and feed both body and soul.
Where: Main Hall, Ta’leef Chicago
When: February 24th and March 17th 12-2PM
Cost: $10 suggested donation External Event Url
1945 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL, United States
