The New Mexico Interfaith Dialogue will be having an in-person dialogue on Thursday June 19th, 7:00 to 8:30 pm at First Unitarian Church, located at 3701 Carlisle Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110, at the Social Hall. Our speaker will be Iman Abdur’Rauf.  We look forward to an engaging dialogue about “Islam in America Today”.

Imam Abdur’Rauf Raul Campos-Marquetti Biography

Abdur’Rauf was born in Spanish Harlem in 1954 and grew up in the inner-city projects of Brooklyn, New York.  He is a Senior Scientist by profession with a B.A. degree in the Geological Sciences attained at Cornell University. He has over 41 years of program management and scientific research experience in the areas of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and Natural Resource Mapping and Astronomy.  He just recently retired from the Pueblo of Santa Ana’s Department of Natural Resources as their GIS Manager.

Abdur’Rauf has been a member of the Albuquerque Muslim community since 1984 and has served as both Vice-President and General Secretary for the Islamic Center of New Mexico. Abdur’Rauf has served as a Muslim Imam for the TaHa Mosque Islamic Center of Santa Fe, the Lighthouse of New Mexico, and is presently the Imam for the MINARA Muslim Community Center of Albuquerque.

The community center provides Islamic religious services, education classes on Islam, Judo Martial Arts and Traditional Archery instruction.  The Imam is a 4th Degree (Yodan) Black Belt in Judo and an Official USA Archery Certified Level-2 Archery Instructor.