
Laurence Brown is a convert to Islam. He received his BA from Cornell University, his MD from Brown University Medical School and his ophthalmology residency training at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC.

Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose, in particular divine beings, as an act of propitiation or worship. While sacrifice often implies the ritual killing of an animal, the term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of food or artifacts.