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The Thinking Muslim

A platform for the elevation of thinking and a call to enlightened action.Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/thinkingmuslimpodcastSupport Our WorkBecome a member: Sustain the podcast with a monthly contribution and enjoy exclusive benefits - https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipMake a one‑time donation: Help us continue producing high‑quality content - https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/donateStay ConnectedNewsletter - Subscribe to host Muhammad Jalal’s reflections and show updates -

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1:18:24

Reform or Revolution: The Future of Islam & Politics...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/26

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipHow can we reconcile seeking quicker reform with long-term ideals? Islam, demonstrated by Prophet Muhammad's life, is revolutionary, yet the challenge is embodying this approach in a world ruled by secular, often autocratic, neo-liberal systems. Dr Uthman Badar is a lecturer at Western Sydney University – he argues there is a path between compromise and idealism. You can find Dr Uthman Badar here:X:

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1:00:27

Centuries Ahead: Islam’s Mental Health Revolution...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/22

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipHow can we manage life’s hardships and pain, and does our modern way of living explain why so many people find themselves in therapy today? Dr Rania Awaad is the Co-Founder and President of Maristan and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University. She draws on both Islamic tradition and medical science to revive a legacy of holistic healing in which the psyche is understood through the ruh, qalb and

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Gaza: How The Mainstream Media Laundered the Truth |...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/19

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here:http://btml.us/thinkingmuslimSince the brutal ongoing genocide in Gaza, we have witnessed not only a deepening humanitarian catastrophe but also cracks appearing in Western narrative control. Stories are changing, editorial lines are shifting, and public trust in legacy media is eroding. At the same time, Palestinian voices, once pushed to the margins, are being

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1:25:32

How Prophet Muhammad (SAW) Mastered Strategy | Dr....

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/15

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here:http://btml.us/thinkingmuslimThis is probably the most important podcast episode you'll listen to. Dr Tareq Suwaidan offers a masterclass on the seera, the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) – like you've never heard before. The Messenger of Allah was a master strategist – someone who thought carefully about his aims and planned his course of action thoroughly. I

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1:18:54

Are Modern Cities Killing Our Souls? With Dr Heba...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/12

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here:http://btml.us/thinkingmuslimAre modern cities killing our souls? Dr Heba Raouf Ezzat argues we are at risk of suffocating ourselves behind concrete jungles. Urban planning must, she argues, reflect our civilisational markers and not capitalist standards. Dr Heba teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at Ibn Haldun University and was formerly a

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1:14:58

Salafism, Ibn Abd al-Wahab and the Contested Legacy...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/08

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Dr Yasir Qadhi is one of the most notable public imams in the Western space and he never shies away from speaking his mind. He has recently authored a book on Salafism, its history and thought. I met him Dr Yasir in Kuala Lumpur and we sat down to discuss salafism, the ideas of Ibn Taymiah and Ibn Abdul Wahab and how we should negotiate

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From Protest to Power: The New Bangladesh with Dilly...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/05

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim One year after mass student protests shook Bangladesh and captured international attention, questions remain about the direction of the country’s politics and the fate of those who demanded change. In this interview, we speak with journalist and commentator Dilly Hussain to reflect on what has changed, what challenges remain, and what the

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The Scholars who Failed Gaza with Dr Farah El-Sharif

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/08/01

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim The genocide in Gaza is one that is unparalleled in Muslim history, two million people are being annihilated in the most systematic way, with no escape. On one side stands the fascistic zionist entity and on the other a wall of compliant, tepid, Muslim rulers who have expended zero political capital to help their beleaguered brethren

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Are We Ready For a Digital Caliphate? With Chris...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/29

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Are we ready for a digital Caliphate? This is the intriguing question Chris Blauvelt asks in a world where technology has decentralised economic and political power. Chris is the CEO of Lanchgood, a premiere Muslim tech company – he argues we need to think more about creating an alternative ecosystem to the prevailing hegemonic order. You

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1:34:11

After Gaza: Muslims in a Post American Order with...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/25

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Our guest this week is Wadah Khanfar, the former director general of Al Jazeera and now head of the Al Sharq Forum, who was recognized by Foreign Policy magazine in 2011 as one of the world's top 100 thinkers. He argues that, despite the bleak period we are experiencing, the world is undergoing a seismic shift in global order. What comes

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1:10:56

Israel’s Secret Plan to Divide Syria with Sami Hamdi

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/22

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Israel has launched a series of strikes on Damascus, using the sectarian crisis in the south as a pretext to weaken the fledgling government. What are the plans for Syria moving forward? How does the Trump administration view Israel’s actions, and what is the future of the region? Sami Hamdi returns to the show to discuss these issues.You

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1:19:07

Death and Life with Dr Kamal Abu Zahra

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/20

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Death is a subject we rarely talk about but its realities meet us every day. How should we conceptualise this inevitability and what impact will it have on our lives? We talk with Dr Kamal Abu Zahra, a scholar and teacher who explains why death matters.Become a member here:https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipOr give your one-off

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1:30:41

This One Qur’anic Lesson on Bravery Could Change...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/17

Donate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipThe Prophet Mohammad PBUH was the first activist in Islam. He lived a mujahid and died a shaheed, dedicating his life to spreading the message of Islam and fighting the injustices of his community of Quraysh and even the two giant powers of the time, the Byzantine and Sassanian empires. And yet today, we have lost the essence of this and

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1:20:03

The Last Great Caliph: Abdul Hamid II - with Dr...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/11

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Sultan Abdul Hamid II is a man vilified by some, lionized by others, yet rarely understood on his own terms. To his critics, he was the Red Sultan, a reactionary despot who clung to power as his empire unraveled. But to his defenders, he was the last bulwark against European imperialism, a caliph who dared to say no when so many bowed

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1:11:36

We’ve Waited Long Enough— The Ummah Must Unite with...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/09

Donate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDr. Wajid Akhter joins The Thinking Youth podcast for one of our most urgent conversations yet; on why unity feels so distant in the Muslim world, what it truly means, and how young Muslims can move from echo chambers to collective action.We’ve protested, donated, and posted; but have we really united?Become a member

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I Was Inside the U.S. State Department - Until Gaza...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/07

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Josh Paul served as a director within the US State Department under Biden. He was the first to resign in protest against America's policy of supplying lethal arms to Israel. He now argues that what is happening in Gaza is a stain on humanity. Josh tells me Gaza represents an irreversible moment for the so-called rules-based order.You can

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Has Sufism Become a Tool for Autocrats? with Dr...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/04

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Modern day autocrats turn to Sufi movements to justify their tyranny. With an emphasis on the personal and the spiritual, there is a tendency towards political quietism –dismissing the cries of Gaza – condoning normalisation and delegitimising struggles for liberation. Dr Shadee El-Masry, argues that historically, sufi movements have been

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1:04:38

MAGA and Mamdani with Imam Tom Facchine

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/07/01

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipDonate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here:http://btml.us/thinkingmuslimThe return of Donald Trump to office raises the question of how far Americans have moved away from the ideas that underpinned its rise to globalism after 1945. What is Make America Great Again, and how important is this moment.I am here in New York with Imam Tom Facchine, one of the most astute commentators of America politics in our

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How Europe Erased Islam with Dr Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/06/29

Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/member...Donate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Why has the West obsessed about Islam for centuries? European thinkers and philosophers have for long caricatured Islam and its key figures, painting a picture of the faith that persists today. Dr. Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre offers a thoughtful reflection of the place of Islam in European imagination over the past few centuries. Dr. Francesca

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Leanne Mohamad on Palestine, The Nakba, & Political...

The Thinking Muslim ·

2025/06/26

Donate to our charity partner Baitulmaal here: http://btml.us/thinkingmuslim Help us expand our Muslim media project here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/membershipThe Nakba Never Ended. The Nakba, the “Catastrophe”. It wasn’t just a moment in 1948 — it is a reality that has lived on for 77 years. It’s in the bulldozed homes of Gaza. It’s the children laying underneath the rubble. It’s in the olive trees ripped from the West Bank. It’s in the silence of classrooms where students are told not to

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