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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 268
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Understanding Ramadan Moonsighting with Ustadh Iyad Hilal
The subject of the sighting of the moon has become a metaphor for our broader division as an ummah. We have disputes over the correct day to start and end Ramadan and invariably this leads to divisio…
01:01:44 |
Sat 10 Apr 2021
The Mauritanian with Moazzam Begg
If you want to see a film that simultaneously depicts the horrors of man’s excessive barbarism but also the indominable spirit of human resilience, you have to watch The Mauritanian. Set in the legal…
00:44:25 |
Sat 03 Apr 2021
Demystifying social science and the religion of liberal economics with Dr Asad Zaman (Pakistan)
The social sciences, the humanities, politics, geography and the like are looked upon with the same reverence as natural sciences. And the queen of these sciences is economic science. Economists in t…
01:04:58 |
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Understanding the Objectives of the Shari'ah (Maqasid al Shari'ah)
We live in a world where Islam is subject to an almighty project of reform. In this difficult environment, the simple truths of Islam and the age-old process of arriving at such truths have been mudd…
01:04:58 |
Sat 27 Feb 2021
Freedom of Speech and Muslims with Hamza Tzortzis
A Special Extended InterviewFreedom of speech is an idea we all naturally gravitate towards. Who would want to live in a society where certain types of speech were outlawed or regulated? Or where we …
01:52:23 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Understanding Vaccines with Dr Hisham Abdallah
Vaccines are in the news. As the coronavirus ravages the world, causing untold damage to lives, communities and livelihoods, a glimmer of hope has come in the production of new vaccines. This breakth…
01:04:48 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
The Islamic view on vaccines, fake news and expertise with Ustadh Iyad Hilal
This week we invite back onto the show Ustadh Iyad Hilal from California’s Al Arqam Institute. Ustadh Iyad has expertise in usul ul-fiqh and has recently presented a stimulating and accessible online…
01:01:46 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Capitalism and Socialism - Thoughts on Islamic Economics - with Almir Colan
Riaz Hasan speaks to Almir Colan, a thinker on Islamic economics and host of the thought provoking Islamic Finance podcast and Director of the Australian Centre for Islamic Finance. He speaks to us a…
01:10:13 |
Sun 06 Dec 2020
The Return of Tyrants and Foiled Dreams with Iyad El-Baghdadi
This episode, I speak at length to the Arab Spring activist Iyad El-Baghdadi about his valuable experience, analysis and forecast about the years ahead. He rose to prominence in the aftermath of the …
01:41:10 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Macron’s France and the “Muslim Problem” - with Dr Yasir Qadhi
To help us understand the current crises in France, I am delighted to have on The Thinking Muslim Sheikh Yasir Qadhi. Dr Yasir Qadhi is well known in the Muslim community, he is a scholar and since 2…
01:25:32 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
The US elections and the Muslim Community - with Mohammed Hannini
To an outsider, the United States looks like it is in meltdown. In what seems like months, the farce of the US elections has dwarfed coverage of huge Coronavirus deaths, with most political pundits p…
00:54:35 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Why the Arab Spring has only just begun? - A conversation with Dr Azzam Tamimi
As part of our Arab Spring series, we take a look at the events that shook the region at the beginning of 2011 and ask searching questions about where we are now. The Middle East today remains a caul…
00:48:58 |
Sat 17 Oct 2020
The Arab Spring 10 years on: What went wrong in Egypt and Syria? - Dr Osman Bakash
We are coming to the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring, the momentous series of events that started in hope with the desperate act of a Tunisian vegetable seller. With the return of another pharao…
01:20:31 |
Sun 27 Sep 2020
Malcolm X: the myths and reality - with Hakeem Muhammad
Malcolm X, the black American Muslim leader is celebrated around the world. His courage, intelligence and skill to persuade, makes him one of the greatest orators in history. Yet, today what he stood…
00:55:08 |
Sun 13 Sep 2020
20 years of British Terror Laws - with Moazzam Begg
Twenty years ago, the then UK Labour government led by Prime Minister Tony Blair introduced anti-terror laws that, in time, would expand the British security state. The raft of terrorism legislation …
01:14:10 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Islamic Economics: Public and Private Property in Islam - with Dr Abul Izz Abdul Salam
This week we invite back onto the show Dr Abul Izz Abdul Salam, a university professor and expert in comparative economics from Jerusalem Palestine to continue our series, today exploring property ow…
00:39:23 |
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Debates, Disagreements & Disunity with Dr Shadee Elmasry
We speak to a regular guest Dr Shadee Elmasry about division within the Muslim community. I ask him, how does Islam help us to navigate our differences? What makes a valid shari’ opinion? How do we k…
01:38:58 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
The Crisis of the Modern Man - With Ameen (Seera Masters)
Even if we don’t subscribe to the oft quoted phrase of Jordan Peterson that there is "a crisis of masculinity", we may accept that young men live lives in an era where their roles and responsibilitie…
01:12:32 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Islam, Liberalism and a Muslim Benedict Option with Ismail Royer
The environment we find ourselves in after 9/11 has made it very difficult for our community to simultaneously continue living an Islamic life and meeting the demands of our daily existence. This atm…
01:29:03 |
Sat 18 Jul 2020
The Srebrenica Massacre – a "human sacrifice” – with Professor Joseph Kaminski (Sarajevo)
Our guest this week, Dr Joseph Kaminski is associate professor at the Department of International Relations at the International University of Sarajevo. He has spent the last six years in the country…
00:47:06 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
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