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Renovatio: The Podcast

Zaytuna College

A multimedia, multi-faith publication about the ideas that shape the modern world from the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States, Zaytuna College.

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43:27

Audio Essay: What Islam Gave the Blues by Sylviane Diouf

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2024/10/03

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Audio Essay: Where Islam and Nationalism Collide by...

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2024/10/03

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40:23

Audio Essay: Counting the Minutes: Productivity and...

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2024/10/03

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32:30

Audio Essay: Courteous Exchange in an Age of Empire...

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2024/10/03

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27:28

Audio Essay: What Walking Can Do For Our Souls

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2024/10/03

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39:56

What is the Write Way to Read?

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2024/09/09

Does reading help you think if you write your thoughts about what you’re reading? What’s the difference between writing books about books, and writing books drawn from one’s own experiences? Such questions relate to matters that are both practical and philosophical. In this episode of our podcast, Safir Ahmed, editor of Renovatio, interviews philosopher Sophia Vasalou who writes engagingly on philosophical theology, virtue ethics, Al-Ghazali, Schopenhauer, wonder, and much more. The

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40:27

Who Gets to Define Islam? with Caner Dagli

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2024/08/28

Who is better placed to say what Islam is: the academic from the “outside” or the practitioner from “within”? In this episode of the Renovatio podcast, Ubaydullah Evans interviews Caner Dagli, a scholar of Islamic Studies, to explore the surprisingly elusive answer to the question: “Who gets to define Islam?” As an academic, Dagli critiques the approach the academy has historically taken in defining Islam within certain predetermined frameworks. They explore the tension among scholars in

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35:08

The Limits of Aggression

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2024/07/18

Asma Afsaruddin argues that jihad (martial engagement) as articulated in the Qur’an and by numerous classical Muslim scholars is primarily defensive in nature. The crux of her argument relies on relevant verses from the Qur’an and prominent Sunni exegetes such as Ibn Abbas, Mujahib ibn Jabbar, and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. These commentators, writes Asfaruddin, argue that the Qur’an only authorizes Muslims to retaliate against those who aggress upon them. In conversation with Ubaydullah Evans,

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37:59

The Trouble with Consciousness (Mark Delp and Esme...

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2024/06/01

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34:04

We Are Not Our Brain (Muhammad Faruque and Esme...

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2024/05/31

Modern science identifies the self with the brain, but this materialist conception of the self is wholly insufficient.

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35:56

The Ancient Roots of Transhumanist Thinking

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2023/10/24

Lenn E. Goodman, an expert on Jewish and Islamic metaphysics, joins Esme Partridge to discuss the philosophical heritage of AI (artificial intelligence)—which he locates in the medieval and renaissance study of alchemy, which ultimately sought to create man from matter—and the implications of our rapid embrace of AI.

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42:43

"Is a Great Books Education for Everyone" with Thomas...

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2023/03/15

"One thing that is true of [the Great Books] list is that you cannot… think that it is a unified, monolithic view of the truth. Hobbes and Machiavelli disagree vehemently with Plato, right? There's some continuity there, but Aquinas does not agree with David Hume, who is an atheist. So, at a minimum, an honest reading of that tradition is an introduction not to a monolithic unified conception of what the truth is, but to a series of important debates."—Thomas HibbsPhilosopher Thomas Hibbs

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42:55

"The Knowledge that Transcends the Empirical World"...

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2023/03/15

"The empirical in the traditional notion of reason is only one component in the uncovering of our knowledge. But knowledge really involves uncovering the intelligible object. So what that means is the intelligible object is not there in the empirical world—that actually means transcending the empirical world to make contact with this intelligible essence."Zaytuna lecturer Hasan Spiker identifies the true ground of objectivity in a conversation with Esme Partridge.

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43:42

"The Decline of Morality Amidst the Celebration of...

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2023/03/15

“If your ultimate concern is yourself, if you have spent your life building a monument to yourself, then in biblical terms, that’s idolatry. I think we live in an idolatrous society… I think it is extremely difficult for people to achieve a moral life without a community.”Chris Hedges speaks to Renovatio editor Safir Ahmed about what fuels our contemporary narcissism and prevents us fulfilling our moral obligations to our selves and to society. Recommended Read: “How the Cult of the Self

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47:18

Sculpting the Self with Muhammad U. Faruque and Esmé...

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2022/04/08

In this podcast, Muhammad U. Faruque speaks with Esme Partridge on his recently published book, Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing, which examine notions of selfhood and subjectivity before and in the modern period.Muhammad U. Faruque is Inayat Malik Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. Esmé L. K. Partridge is a writer on Islamic thought and the dynamics between tradition and modernity in a secular age.

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44:41

What, Other Than God, Do We Worship?

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2022/03/30

Listen and read show notes on Renovatio: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/media/what-other-than-god-do-we-worship

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58:03

Protection from Power with Mohammad Fadel and...

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2021/12/10

Listen and read show notes on Renovatio: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/media/protection-from-power

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46:04

What Is the Nature of Being Alone? (Stephen A. Gregg...

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2021/11/05

Listen and read show notes on Renovatio: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/media/what-is-the-nature-of-being-alone

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Why Beauty Is Not Optional with Oludamini Oggunaike...

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2021/10/13

What better topic for discussion than beauty, muses Oludamini Ogunnaike, a regular contributor to Renovatio and a scholar of Islam in north and west Africa. Beauty is inseparable from truth, goodness, and justice, yet reference to it is missing from many of our most important discussions on those matters. The neglect of beauty has been detrimental to communities everywhere, notes Ogunnaike; it’s often seen as superfluous, compartmentalized from other values, or reserved for the elite when,

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41:51

Graceful Giving and Grateful Receiving

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2021/08/30

Asad Tarsin, author of Being Muslim: A Practical Guide, speaks with Joshua Lee Harris, a specialist on the work of Thomas Aquinas, on his article for Renovatio, “The Human Arts of Graceful Giving and Grateful Receiving.” In their conversation, Harris explains how his desire to understand gratitude grew from wanting to inculcate gratefulness in his own life and also from encountering people who affirmed gratitude despite facing extreme adversity. This experience, as well as his philosophical

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