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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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00:18:07

Book Review: 'Shia Minorities in the Contemporary...

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2021/08/30

New comparative perspectives on Shi'a minorities outside the Muslim worldKey features Provides comparative insights into Shi'a Muslim communities across the globe, set in Muslim minority contexts Makes an important contribution to understanding the global dynamics of contemporary Shi'a Islam Illustrates how transnational Shi'a networks operate in Muslim minority contexts Discusses the impact of events in the Middle East on Shi'a Muslim minorities across the world Case studies

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00:19:58

Book Review: 'Islam and Law in Lebanon' by Dr Morgan...

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2021/08/30

The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional lines, and the privileges of power are distributed accordingly. One such key prerogative is exclusivity when it comes to personal status laws: the family legal affairs of each community. In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic

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00:13:49

Book Review: 'The Heirs of the Prophet' by Dr Liyakat...

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2021/08/30

After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, different religious factions within the Muslim community laid claim to the Prophet's legacy. Drawing on research from Sunni and Shi>ite literature, Liyakat N. Takim explores how these various groups, including the caliphs, scholars, Sufi holy men, and the Shi>ite imams and their disciples, competed to be the Prophetic heirs. The book also illustrates how the tradition of the "heirs of the Prophet" was often a polemical tool used by its

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00:06:58

Book Review: 'Islam in Liberalism' by Shaykh Jaffer...

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2021/08/30

Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism explores what Islam has become in today’s world, with full attention to the multiplication of its meanings and interpretations. He seeks to understand how anxieties about tyranny, intolerance, misogyny, and homophobia, seen in the politics of the Middle East, are projected onto Islam itself. Massad shows that through this projection Europe emerges as democratic and tolerant, feminist, and pro-LGBT rights—or, in short, Islam-free. Massad documents the Christian and

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00:10:55

Book Review: 'In Search of Ali ibn Abi Talib's Codex'...

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2021/08/30

The history of the text of the Qur'an has been a longstanding subject of interest within the field of Islamic Studies, but the debate has so far been focused on the Sunni traditions about the codices of Caliphs Abu Bakr and 'Uthman b. 'Affan. Little to no attention has been given to the traditions on 'Ali b. Abi Talib's collection of the Qur'an. This book examines both Shi'i and Sunni traditions on the issue, aiming to date them back to the earliest possible date and, if

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00:04:28

Book Review: 'The New Testament in Muslim Eyes' Dr...

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2021/08/30

The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close textual commentary on perhaps the earliest declaration of Paul’s apostleship and of his undying commitment to the risen Christ. It notes the subtleties of the Greek original against the backdrop of an exciting glimpse of Quranic Arabic parallels and differences. It asks: Does Paul qualify as a prophet of Allah (God)? The thoughts of Paul are assessed by examining his claims against the background of Islam’s rival views of Abraham and his legacy. The

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00:15:30

Book Review: 'Islam & the Challenge of Human Rights'...

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2021/08/30

Whether Islam is compatible with human rights in general, and with the Declaration of Human Rights in particular, has been both a Muslim issue and a concern of the international community. Muslim rulers, Western analysts and policymakers, and Muslim extremists as well as conservative Muslims, have often agreed for diverse reasons that Islam and human rights cannot co-exist. In this book Aziz Sachedina argues for the essential compatibility of Islam and human rights. He offers a balanced and incisive

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00:04:45

Book Review: 'Unsaying God: Negative Theology in...

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2021/08/30

What cannot be said about God, and how can we speak about God by negating what we say? Traveling across prominent negators, denialists, ineffectualists, paradoxographers, naysayers, ignorance-pretenders, unknowers, I-don't-knowers, and taciturns, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam delves into the negative theological movements that flourished in the first seven centuries of Islam. Aydogan Kars argues that there were multiple, and often competing, strategies for self-negating

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00:04:50

Book Review: 'Contemplating the Quran' by Shaykh...

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2021/08/30

A Thematic Thirty-Part Commentary on the Noble Qur an This original work by Shaykh Ahmed Saad presents a commentary (tafsir) of each of the 30 juz of the Quran. Each juz of the Quran is of equal length, facilitating the completion of the recitation of the Quran every month (over 30 days). With this work by Shaykh Ahmed Saad, regular reciters of the Quran can gain a better understanding of the themes explored in any given juz, and pace with their recitation. In English and Arabic.

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00:07:20

Book Review: 'Durūs fī ʿilm al-Rijal' by Sayed...

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2021/08/30

Sayed Hossein gives a book review on his book Durūs fī ʿilm al-Rijal (the science of hadith narrators).

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00:23:36

Book Review: 'Islamic Legal Orthodoxy' by Prof. Devin...

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2021/08/30

In Islamic Legal Orthodoxy, Stewart explores the process by which Shiite jurists participated in the mainstream of Islamic jurisprudence and were influenced by Sunni legal doctrines. He identifies three main reactions to Sunni legal definitions of othodoxy and the concept of consensus on which it was based. The Akhbaris rejected Sunni legal consensus and juristic authority for a scripture-based system; many Shiite outwardly accepted the ground rules of Sunni legal consensus and joined the Shafii

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00:05:17

Book Review: 'The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism' by Dr....

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2021/08/30

This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. However, this study focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East, which developed in direct response to the collapse and decentralization of the Islamic gunpowder empires. In other words, the book argues that the Usuli movement as well as Wahhabism and neo-Sufism emerged in reaction

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00:10:36

Book Review: 'Scripturalist Islam' by Prof. Robert...

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2021/08/30

The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a rejection of the rational exegetical techniques which had become orthodox doctrine in Imāmī theology and law. However, the Akhbārīs were not simple literalists, as they are at times portrayed in secondary literature. They developed a complex theory of

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00:08:07

Book Review: 'Zayd' by Shaykh Jaffer Ladak

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2021/08/30

Although Muḥammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of Muḥammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty years. He was the first adult male to become a Muslim and the only Muslim apart from Muḥammad whose name is mentioned in the Qur'an. Eventually, Muḥammad would repudiate Zayd as his son, abolish the institution of adoption, and send

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00:09:14

Book Review: 'Into the Wild' by Sayyid Hussain Makke

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2021/08/30

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. His body - along with a camera with five rolls of film, an SOS note, and a cryptic diary written in the back pages of a book about edible plants - was found six

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00:22:08

Resolving the Free Speech Tensions between Secular...

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2021/07/15

Empirical research analysing the lived experiences of Muslims often shows a one-sided narrative about gender relations, intra and inter-faith relations, and societal relations. In seeking to reduce the impact of such discourse I speak from a secular position, and also with understanding of the Islamic seminary but with full awareness of the limitations of both epistemological approaches. Accusations are often brought against the reputed hegemony of such approaches by the ‘other’ side and this

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00:17:50

Freedom of Thought and Expression from an Existential...

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2021/07/15

Unrestricted freedom of thought and responsible freedom of expression are key factors in the process of intellectual and moral progression of humanity. These freedoms are intuitive and are attested to rationally. Any form of restriction to these freedoms inevitably results in tension since they stand in contradiction to the human existential condition of growth and self-realisation. Accordingly, the role of a successful religion is one of liberating humanity from factors restricting these freedoms

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00:18:23

Freedom of Intellectual Expression: A Critique on the...

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2021/07/15

Freedom of intellectual expression has become a central topic in the modern era, being thoroughly examined within religious discourses and tackled by jurists under the heading ‘books of misguidance’ (kutub al-ḍalāl). An examination of the jurisprudential literature will lead us to the following observations: 1. The concept of misguidance is extremely ambiguous and was frequently utilised as a means of character assassination. Apart from a few examples, no one coined for this concept a clear and

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00:25:08

Ghazālian Insights on Doctrinal Toleration and Its...

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2021/07/15

Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) in his Fayṣal al-tafriqa bayna al-Islām wa al-zanadaqa, offers one way as to how one navigates intra-Muslim disagreements on doctrinal issues. The question is whether Ghazālī offers some insight into how we can discuss freedom of speech from within Islamic parameters. Would a Ghazālian reading create some space for how one can hold strong views that are antithetical to the views of other individuals but yet still be part of one faith community. If there is space for

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00:23:47

Freedom of Expression and the Challenge of Hate...

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2021/07/15

Like the overwhelming majority of instances of freedoms and rights, freedom of expression is not a categorical right. It can be restricted by some qualifications including hate speech. Some Human Rights documents, including article 7 of the International Declaration of Human Rights (1948), Paragraph c of article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide(1948), article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) and article 20

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