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Historical surveys and current discussions surrounding religion, culture, and politics in Muslim settings
This episode discusses some elements related to the transition from the first dynasty of the world of Islam, the Banu Umayya, to the highly...
This episode continues discussing the non-Muslim communities of the early Islamic period. The focus shifts to Christian communities after th...
This episode of the World of Islam briefly discusses the non-Muslim communities of the early Islamic period, particularly after the Arab con...
This episode seeks to correct a major misconception concerning Islam and Muslim life. The Islam of the masses is not simply a reflection of...
This episode of the World of Islam introduces the so-called Ikhwan al-Safa (The Brethren of Purity), a group of mysterious thinkers that pro...
Al-Farabi (d.950) was one of the most important philosophers of the world of early Islam. This episode briefly introduces part of his contri...
This episode highlights two perspectives in early philosophy within Muslim contexts. Al-Kindi (d. 860s) viewed philosophy and religion as co...
This episode discusses the interaction with Greek philosophy in the early Islamic period. We encounter Plotinus, Neoplatonism, and the impor...
Today's episode seeks to present a general picture of the Sufi worldview. Some of the questions we briefly deal with include: How do Sufis i...
This episode discusses a further step in the later rise of full-fledged Sufi orientations within the world of Islam. We encounter the concep...
This episode introduces the tradition of Sufism that some also call Islamic mysticism. We are concerned today with the early period and the...
This episode discusses the struggles of modern Muslims to make sense of the concept of Jihad. We consider the impact of European colonialism...
This episode briefly discusses the worldview of the Jihad movements that appeared on the Muslim scene around the 17th and 18th centuries AD....
What exactly is Jihad? This episode discusses the traditional doctrine of Jihad that Muslim Jurists developed and takes a brief look at rela...
What does Ijmāʿ (consensus) mean? How does it function within traditional Islamic Law? In what way do the Sunni concept of “ijmāʿ” and the S...
The episode discusses the concept of ijtihad that has been used by Muslim jurists to derive legal rulings. We particularly focus on what is...
The episode introduces some of the different types of Hadith collections that arose in the world of Islam over the centuries. We discuss the...
Hadith reports attributing sayings and actions to Muhammad came to play a major role in the shaping of the religion of Islam. This episode w...
This episode deals with the institutionalization of the legal field in Sunni Islam and the rise of the four "orthodox" legal schools or madh...
This episode further discusses the debate between the Ahl al-Ra'y and Ahl al-Hadith as well as the compromise initiated by al-Shafiʿi, who w...
This episode discusses the rise of legal study circles in early Islam. We encounter Ahl al-Ra'y (Partisans of reason), Ahl al-Hadith (Partis...
This episode introduces the early frames of Islamic law before its more sophisticated stages. We discuss, among other things, law in the Qur...
What is Sharia? What is Fiqh? Is there a relation between law and theology?
Today, we highlight the tenets of Mu`tazilism and the Ash`arite response to it. Ash`arism would grow to become the dominant theological scho...
Today, we take a brief look at the important theological debate in early Islam over whether the Qur'an was created in history or rather eter...
This episode elaborates on three early theological debates in early Islam, namely the leadership of the religious community, the relation of...
This episode starts introducing some early theological debates within Islam. What can these debates tell us about early Islam? And how shoul...
Today, we briefly highlight the fall of the Umayyad dynasty and rise of the Abbasids in 750 CE. The focus of the episode will be on the deve...
The period in which Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ruled the early Arab empire (685-705) was an important moment in the cementing of...
This episode highlights another round of internal strife within the early community (680-692). Umayyad rule is challenged from many corners....
This episode discusses what could be described with some reservations as the first sectarian group to rise within Islam. The Kharijites are...
This week marks the anniversary of the passing of Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) who was a professor of the history of Islamic thought at the S...
This episode discusses the rule of Ali ibn Abi Talib (656-661), which is also the time of the First Civil War, a traumatic event in the life...
This episode discusses the rule of Uthman ibn Affan (644-656). While continuing to be successful on the external front, Uthman faced dissent...
After Muhammad's death in 632 CE, the question of the leadership of the community will prove to be a serious challenge for Muhammad's follow...
After introducing the Qur'an, its contents, and its formation in previous episodes, the podcast discusses the transition from Qur'anic disco...
Jesus is a significant figure in the Qur'an. How does the Qur'anic Jesus differ from the Jesus Christ of orthodox forms of Christianity? And...
Today's podcast briefly discusses the transition of the Qur'an from an oral message into a closed codex through political decisions of the c...
Today's podcast provides an English translation of part of a conversation with the late professor Mohammed Arkoun (d. 2010) on Belgian TV*....
This episode takes a look at the history of Rai music outside Oran and its region. We pay particular attention to the Moroccan and French Ra...
This episode presents some of the major Rai singers of the 1990's. We encounter Cheb Mami, Cheb Sahraoui, Chebba Fadela, Chebba Zahouania, C...
We continue looking at Rai Music. This episode presents the career of Khaled Hadj Brahim as emblematic in the way Pop-Rai develops from the...
We continue discussing the story of Rai Music. Among the topics of this episode are the influence of Algerian independence on the developmen...
We continue our journey through the history of Rai Music. After considering the streams of music from which modern Rai music emerges in a pr...
This is the first episode in a multiple-episode series on a musical style from North Africa that came to be a strong player on the World Mus...
This episode briefly introduces the concept of prophecy, its history in the Near East (including the well-developed tradition of Biblical pr...
We continue talking about the Qur'an. We take a look at how Professor Mohammed Arkoun defined the Qur'an, at the way that most Muslims have...
This episode of the podcast is the first part of a short introduction to the scripture of Islam known as the Qur'an (Koran). Where does the...
Episode 8 of the World of Islam Podcast takes a look at some seemingly controversial elements contained in the Sira literature. The elements...
Episode 7 of the podcast considers what the traditional sira literature says about Muhammad's life and career after the hijra from Mecca to...