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Advocating faith, reason, revelation and progress
My mission is to educate the public on Abrahamic godliness, known in ancient Arabic as Hanīfiyyah. Through sensemaking, I simplify sophisticated Qur’anic narratives and holistic prophetic guidance to show how they persuasively address contemporary social, political and psychological human needs.
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Essays & Insights
18.06.2020
Muhammad didn’t have ‘slaves’
In this post I’m not interested in what people do or have done, but with normative shar’ī prescriptions. Whilst I’m…
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18.07.2016
Distinguishing Elders from the elderly
One topic that tends to provoke a one-dimensional response is the role of elderly members of Muslim communities in…
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21.07.2019
Thoughts on scholarly studies and methods
I often thank God for my learning and educational experiences. I never had a teacher who expected that I simply…
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19.11.2019
Are Arabs the best scholars, just because they’re Arabs?
6 min read I rail against paternalistic Eastern (Arab and Asian) superiority and the infantilization of Muslim…
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"Whoever responds to the people merely based on what has been related in books that differ from their customs, habits, their era, their social/political circumstances and the contextual variables at play, misguides others and is himself misguided. He injures the faith greater than a doctor who treats patients failing to consider their different customs, habits, era, circumstances and contextual variables, merely seeking to reflect what is in the general books of medicine. Such a doctor is an imbecile and such a jurist too is an imbecile; both are the most harmful they could possibly be to the people’s faith or their bodies – may God help us!"
– Abu Bakr b. al-Qayyim, Damascene theologian and legal philosopher, d. 1350