{"id":2552,"date":"2020-04-29T13:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2020-04-29T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:33:32","slug":"object-of-the-week-the-gathering-by-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2020\/04\/object-of-the-week-the-gathering-by-muhammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of the Week &#8211; &#8220;The Gathering&#8221; by Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Muhammad Ali<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>The Gathering<\/em><br \/>\nLithographic print<br \/>\n23\u201d x 27\u201d<br \/>\n1980<br \/>\n2010.02.0001<br \/>\nGift of Mr. Joseph Elkind<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan Mubarak (Blessed Ramadan)! One of the holiest months of the year for Muslims, Ramadan commemorates the month in which the Qur\u2019an, the holy book of Islam, was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by Allah (God). Daily fasting is practiced, and it is a time of self-reflection and spiritual improvement. Ramadan is a time to strengthen one\u2019s relationship with Allah through reading the Qur&#8217;an and prayer, as well as reinforce communal bonds through shared meals when breaking the fast and giving to the poor. This print depicting figures in white walking towards a mosque with two minarets and a gold dome is by American Muslim, sports figure, celebrity and political activist, Muhammad Ali, who joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and later converted to Sufi Islam after a pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Ali The Gathering Lithographic print 23\u201d x 27\u201d 1980 2010.02.0001 Gift of Mr. Joseph Elkind Ramadan Mubarak (Blessed Ramadan)! One of the holiest months of the year for Muslims, Ramadan commemorates the month in which the Qur\u2019an, the holy book of Islam, was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by Allah (God). Daily fasting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2020\/04\/object-of-the-week-the-gathering-by-muhammad-ali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Object of the Week &#8211; &#8220;The Gathering&#8221; by Muhammad Ali&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3623,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[164,161,160,162,158,163,157,159,12],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","tag-allah","tag-fasting","tag-islam","tag-muhammad-ali","tag-muslim","tag-prayer","tag-quran","tag-ramadan","tag-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}