Nonviolent uprisings in several countries of the Middle East and North Africa, a movement many call the βArab Spring,β have captured the worldβs attention. To Amitabh Pal, author and managing editor of The Progressive magazine, who spoke Thursday at ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½, the roots of those uprisings also help to illustrate the βrich tradition of nonviolenceβ in Islam. Of course, as Pal…
