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The AMI Podcast

Al-Mahdi Institute

AMI Podcasts explore a range of different topics including the latest cutting-edge research within the field of Islamic Studies, book reviews by prominent authors and academics, and discussions among scholars of diverse faiths and denominations within Islam.

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00:06:14

Book Talk: Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical...

The AMI Podcast ·

2023/12/18

This book provides detailed and multidisciplinary coverage of a wealth of key Qur’anic terms, with incisive entries on crucial expressions ranging from the divine names allāh (“God”) and al-raḥmān (“the Merciful”) to the Qur’anic understanding of belief and self-surrender to God. It examines what the terms mean in Qur’anic usage, discusses how to translate them into English, and delineates the role they play in expressing the Qur’an’s distinctive understanding of God, humans, and the cosmos. It

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00:13:59

Book Talk: Ibn Taymiyya by Professor Jon Hoover

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2023/12/18

Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled against religious innovation. Today, he inspires such diverse movements as Global Salafism, Islamic revivalism and modernism, and violent jihadism. This volume synthesizes the latest research, discusses many little-known aspects of Ibn Taymiyya’s

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00:07:18

Book Talk: End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the...

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2023/12/18

Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be

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00:07:08

Book Talk: Epistemology of the Quran: Elements of a...

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2023/12/18

This book examines all verses of the Quran involving knowledge related concepts. It begins with the argument that an analysis of the Quranic concept of ignorance points to epistemic virtues that can pave our way towards gaining knowledge and/or understanding. It deals with the Quranic concepts of perceptual, rational, and revelatory knowledge as well as understanding and wisdom in the light of recent discussions in Western analytic epistemology. It also argues that the relevant Quranic verses seem

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00:30:28

A Letter from ʿAlī on the History of the Caliphate by...

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2023/12/18

Dr. Nebil Husayn delivers a research seminar examining an early pro-ʿAlid epistle attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) that defends his claims to leadership and critiques his rivals. The epistle emerged in the context of intra-army disputes after ʿAlī’s companions were murdered. While the work survives primarily in Twelver Shīʿī sources like those of al-Qummī, al-Kulaynī, Ibn Rustam al-Ṭabarī, and Ibn Ṭāwūs, some Sunni historians like al-Balādhurī also referenced it, indicating early

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00:11:40

Book Talk: Animals in the Qur'an by Dr Sarra Tlili

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2023/12/18

The Islamic tradition has always held animals in high esteem, deserving the same level of consideration as humans. The Qur'an opines that "there is not an animal in the earth nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are people like you." This fascinating and highly original book examines the status and nature of animals as they are portrayed in the Qur'an and in adjacent exegetical works, in which animals are viewed as spiritual, moral, intelligent, and accountable

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00:06:20

Book Talk: An Anxious Inheritance: Religious Others &...

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2023/12/18

An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encounter with these religious others, and showing how the Qur'an functioned as both a script to understand them and a map to classify them, this study traces the key role that these religious others played in what would ultimately emerge as (Sunni) orthodoxy. This orthodoxy would appear to be the natural outgrowth of the Prophet Muhammad's preaching,

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00:47:08

Medical Discussions on Lovesickness (ʿIshq) during...

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2023/10/20

The late Michael Dols in his book on the Majnūn rightly asserted that when dealing with madmen in medieval Islamic societies, we need to have in mind a model of medical pluralism. He had spotted the various intersections of genres of texts and learning, and even sociological classes and behavioral norms in his examination of madness, more broadly, and lovesickness (ʿishq), in particular. In this chapter, I shall focus on the discussions on lovesickness from five medical commentaries from the Mamluk

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00:19:05

Educational Challenges Facing the Role & Scope of...

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2023/10/11

Dr Fella Lahmar presents "Educational challenges facing the role & scope of female scholarship"

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00:24:20

Embryo Politics, Morality and Shia Islam by Dr...

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2023/09/22

Dr Mansooreh Saniei (King’s College London)While considering the relationship between ethics, religion, and regulatory policy in the field of emerging life sciences and technologies, this presentation focuses on the politics of embryo, specifically embryo donation for modern medically assisted reproduction and embryo research, and debates about its status in the context of Shiism, with particular reference to Iran with a majority Shia population in the Middle East and North Africa. It shows that

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00:19:46

Is a Foetus a Person in Imami Fiqh? by Dr Mohammad...

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2023/09/20

Dr Mohammad Rasekh (Shahid Beheshti University and Institute of Ismaili Studies) Under Imami fiqh (Muslim jurisprudence), various rules are applicable to foetus. Among them, this research focuses on the rules on blood money (dīyya) and inheritance (irth), as applicable to foetus, in order to examine the underlying personhood picture of the entity. That is to say, a question may be raised on whether the said rules share similar understanding of foetus as person. In this regard, taking into account

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00:27:09

Artificial Intelligence and Twelver Shiʿi Theology:...

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2023/09/16

Dr Amina Inloes (The Islamic College, London) Recent advances in artificial intelligence technology have revived debates over the nature of knowing, consciousness, and the soul. This paper will explore whether the emergence of speaking, rational machines and the possibility of sentient machines could challenge classical Twelver Shiʿi Islamic theology. It will consider in what ways sentient machines would bring to light implied notions of anthropocentrism and anthropocentric notions of God within

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00:23:57

Human Reproductive Cloning: Theological and Ethical...

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2023/09/14

Shaykh Arif Abdul Hussain (Al Mahdi Institute) Since the widely publicised announcement of the birth of the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, human reproductive cloning became a theoretic possibility that received a great deal of attention in both religious and secular settings. Reproductive cloning, which is the creation of a genetically identical human being, could potentially be used by infertile couples or by parents who have lost a child and want to have another child with the same

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00:23:58

Biological Evolution: An Islamic Kalām Perspective by...

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2023/09/12

Prof Mohammed Basil Altaie (University of Leeds) This article discusses the question where the Qurʾan sets a conceptual limitation on the interpretation of biological evolution of the first human creature, Adam, and presents a novel understanding for the process of biological evolution in general. The work is part of my endeavour to promote new studies in Daqīq al-Kalām which represent the Islamic approach to Natural Philosophy. The question of the creation of Adam will be discussed in two

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00:29:03

Testing Children’s Genes vs Testing Adults’ Values:...

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2023/09/10

Prof. Mohammed Ghaly (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) Genetic testing is one of the ground-breaking advancements brought forth by the field of genetics, which have revolutionized biomedical sciences. This revolutionary potential has led these technological breakthroughs to become a major target for ethical reflection within both religious and secular moral traditions. From the 1990s onwards, Muslim religious scholars and biomedical scientists, with the help of transnational Islamic

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00:21:24

Moral and Legal Responsibility for Reproduction of a...

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2023/09/08

Dr Rahim Nobahar (Shahid Beheshti University) The continuity of human generation, its strength and health are oftenemphasised in Islamic teachings. According to Islamic theology one of the aims and philosophies of prophecy is to save material and spiritual life of mankind (hifz al-nawa al-insani). In such a context every permissible measure for having a healthier linage is welcomed. In Islam having children is highly recommended and rewarded, however, with the advancement of premarital genetic

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00:14:12

Sex Selection from a Religious and Moral Point of...

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2023/09/06

Dr Ali Fanaei, Dr Elham Farahani, Ms Arefeh Sadat Hosseininejad (Al Mahdi Institute, Mofid University) The impressive advances in science and technology in the modern world have dramatically increased the freedom of humans to make decisions and their power to control nature. Since humans are free and responsible agents, it is reasonable and meaningful to expect religion and ethics to have something to say about the way in which humans conquer nature with the help of modern science and technology

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00:24:51

The Evolution of the Idea of Ensoulment in Abū Bakr...

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2023/09/04

Dr Khaoula Trad (University of Hamburg) This paper examines the diachronic evolution of the idea of the ensoulment in one Qurʾanic exegesis and two ḥadīth commentaries by Abū Bakr Ibn al- ʿArabī (d.543H/1148 CE). I trace the exclusion of the ensoulment of the creational formula in Aḥkām al-qurʾān. Subsequently, the idea appears for the first time in al-Qabas as a phase that juristically represents a pivotal criterion for establishing penalties. Finally, I demonstrate how in his ḥadīth commentary

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00:25:24

Islam and the Simulation Hypothesis by Mr Rizwan Virk

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2023/09/02

Mr Rizwan Virk (Arizona State University) In the twenty-first century, a new idea has arisen, The Simulation Hypothesis, about the nature of the universe as a computer simulation or a video game, which both challenges and extends existing popular belief systems, (i.e. atheism/materialism and the worldviews of various world religions). The Simulation Hypothesis also provides a bridge between an increasingly scientific and technological society which takes a materialistic view of the world, and those

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00:23:09

Sharia Perspectives on Artificial Insemination:...

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2023/09/02

Prof. Mustafa Mohaghegh Damad(The Academy of Sciences of Iran) Infertility has become a pressing issue in modern society, prompting the use of "artificial insemination" as a viable solution. This term refers to the process of facilitating the fusion between male sperm and female eggs, utilising medical devices or alternative methods excluding intercourse and sexual intimacy, to enhance fertility and promote conception. Artificial insemination is practiced in two forms: 1. Complete

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