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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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36:05

The Incoherence of Secular Messiahs (Audio Essay)

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2025/08/29

The modern world knows it faces a void of meaning—and in a strange recurrence of history, some secular intellectuals are now calling for various forms of paganism.An essay by Faraz Khan

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56:04

The Silent Theology of Islamic Art (Audio Essay)

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2025/08/12

To many, Islamic art can speak more profoundly and clearly than even the written word. Is it wiser then for Muslims to show, not to tell?Article by Oludamini OgunnaikeRead here: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/the-silent-theology-of-islamic-art

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28:46

Dignity Is for the Heart, Not the Ego (Audio Essay)

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2025/08/05

Contrary to its usage in today’s public discourse, dignity is not something all humans universally have, but something that everyone must do.Article by Caner K. Dagli https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/dignity-is-for-the-heart-not-the-ego

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30:28

Can Materialism Explain the Mind?

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2025/07/03

Some philosophers believe materialism has now reached an insurmountable quandary in the question of consciousness.

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12:57

The Human Arts of Graceful Giving and Grateful...

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2025/07/03

There is something paradoxical about that deepest and most original source of social organization—namely, the giving and receiving of gifts.

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42:39

Wisdom in Pieces (Audio Essay)

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2025/05/27

Science, philosophy, and art have been blown apart, and our conversations have devolved into chaos. How do we begin to learn the art of disagreement?Read the article: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/wisdom-in-pieces

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14:32

Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity by Hamza...

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2025/05/15

Despite the diversity of our countless creeds, colors, and cultures, our society has been subsumed into a monoculture of ersatz arts, entertainment, and consumerism. How can we recapture humanity’s once extraordinary individuality?

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14:32

Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity- Hamza Yusuf...

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2025/05/01

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25:18

The Egalitarian Objection to Liberal Education

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2025/03/18

The Egalitarian Objection to Liberal EducationAnd Why the Liberal Arts Are Indispensable to EqualityBy Thomas Hibbs

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22:56

Transcendence and TikTok (Audio Essay)

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2025/03/11

What does it mean to “manifest” something, or for something to “become manifest”? For those familiar with Islamic mystical terminology, the concept of tajallī may come to mind. Often rendered into English as “manifestation,” tajallī denotes the appearance or disclosure of the divine names in physical forms. Similar to the notion of “theophany” in other religious traditions (with the philosopher Henry Corbin taking tajallī to be a synonym of just that),1 it means passively experiencing God

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25:58

Other People's Truths: Reading Sacred Scripture in...

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2025/02/18

Sacred scriptures certainly qualify as Great Books, but can they be read as literature in secular settings?Read the essay by Eva Brann- https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/other-peoples-truths

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20:49

Resisting the Architecture of Apathy (Audio Essay)

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2025/02/12

The way societies driven by profit and production design and build lived environments breeds an apathy that, unchecked, can only lead to the dissolution of human communities as we’ve known them. Article by Marwa Al-Sabouni https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/resisting-the-architecture-of-apathyRead by Lyba Hussain Produced by Faatimah Knight

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17:13

What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought (Audio Essay)

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2025/01/27

The dignity of man in his potential to be whatever he desires to be, this fifteenth-century Italian prince & philosopher gave rise to the modern secular worldview that privileges self-actualization above all else.Essay by Esme Partridge

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29:11

The Sin of Cosmocide (Audio Essay)

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2024/12/30

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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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35:09

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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