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Muslims worldwide have come to the realisation that the prevailing capitalist economic system does not serve us ethically. With its interest-based banking and casino-style financial instruments, a devout believer has no choice but to attempt to escape its haram, even if that hinders the progress and prosperity of our daily lives. In recent years, Islamic finance has been touted as an ethical alternative. A way to escape the haram riba based economy. Some have even presented it as an alternative to financial capitalism. The rationale behind these products is to accommodate the detailed Shariah rulings on trade and many Islamic scholars have endorsed products that Western financial institutes and governments have embraced.

Our guest this week was an Islamic finance industry insider. Harris Irfan is currently the CEO of Cordoba Capital Markets https://www.ccmkts.com. He has 29 years of investment banking and consulting experience. He was the former co-founder of Deutsche Bank's world-leading Islamic finance team and CEO of Deutsche's Islamic finance subsidiary. He is the Former Global Head of Islamic Finance at Barclays, and then Head of Investment Banking for the Rasmala group. He is also the author of "Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance", the critically acclaimed best-seller about the Islamic finance industry.



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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 107

00:00 Introduction
02:13 The Makkah Clocktower
07:36 Investment Banks Abuse
09:58 Fractional Reserve Banking
13:48 Halal Banks?
16:43 But Buying a House?
20:43 Regulatory Issues?
22:07 Risk Sharing ?
28:15 So How Do Muslims Invest?
31:10 Islamic Scholars Wrong?
36:23 Scholars Not Economists?
39:00 The Doomsday Fatwa
44:46 Makes Haram Halal
49:32 Governments Passing Laws
51:53 The Goals of the Shariah
57:50 Capitalism
1:01:54 What is Capitalism
1:07:05 Erdogan and the Riba Trap
1:13:07 Brics Currency & Dedolarisation?


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Do we need another Salahuddin to turn around our fortunes? Salahuddin Ayubi, the 12th-century general, statesman and sultan, is mythologised for his victory over the Crusaders in 1187 at Hattin and, ultimately, the reclamation of Islam’s third holiest place, Al Aqsa in Jerusalem. At a time when the Muslim ummah is undergoing what many suggest, with good evidence, to be the worst period in Muslim history – his name and mission remain an inspiration.

Yet many of us, have scant knowledge of the man behind the myth, the prevailing social and political climate that made him who he was and the geopolitical context within which he acquired his sense of mission. Like all historical heroes, there are periods of highs and lows in their lives and the deeper we dig, we find complexities that do not fit well into our idealistic rendering of history.

To help us understand the great Salahuddin, we invited Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam onto the show. Dr. Azzam has authored several books, including Saladin: The Triumph of the Sunni Revival. He is a scholar specialising in Islamic history, and we are grateful for his time.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 111

Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction
02:55 – Salahuddin’s Context
10:00 – Zengi
15:29 – The Sunni Revival
24:00 – Abbasid Fragmentation
28:30 – Crusader Threat?
32:12 – Jerusalem’s Importance?
39:10 – The Fatimid’s
43:36 – Salahuddin’s Egypt Campaign
45:40 – Salahuddin’s Luck
48:00 – Salahuddin Becomes Wazir
52:45 – Reliance on Sunni Ulema
54:36 – Salahuddin as administrator
1:00:21 – Unifying Syria
1:05:47 – Salahuddin and Aleppo
1:08:26 – Salahuddin’s Brilliance
1:10:00 – King Baldwin
1:21:00 – July 1187
1:23:40 – Salahuddin’s Chivalry
1:31:50 – Richard the Lionheart
1:33:34 – The Last Fight
1:36:00 – The French General
1:42:00 – What made Salahuddin?
1:43:20 – Reproducing Salahuddin Today?

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It is said a people without a past are a lost soul. And in today’s turbulent world, the Muslim ummah has come to realise that we have, in many cases, been taught a version of history that fails to appreciate what the late Shabbir Akhtar called Islam as a imperial faith.
Dr Yakoob Ahmed is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He was until recently a lecturer in Islamic history at Istanbul University. He is a regular to this podcast and writes and lectures extensively on Ottoman history. He is the author of a soon to be published title, Does History Matter – history done islamically - the conversation of today.

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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Gaza at the crossed roads
8:08 History as a vocation
11:08 Islam as an Imperial Faith
14:40 Historians providing solutions
19:48 What are we doing wrong with history?
25:26 Idealism?
32:50 The Quran and History
37:32 Ibn Khuldun’s cyclical theory
43:22 Islam and the production of knowledge
50:40 Fiction and Ertrugul
55:20 Islamic method of history?

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At the time where our attention is fixed on Gaza, rightly, another conflict is taking place with horrendous cost to human life. Sadly As always, our ummah has become subject to the political ambitions of egotistical actors and their outside backers. Sudan is burning. There are 8 million people on the move, escaping the indiscriminate murder, rape and pillage of what can only be described as two warlords that thwarted a people’s revolution – aided by external powers.

Today we explore these two conflicts. In a way, they are one. They are recent episodes of a Muslim world in crisis. Our ummah today lives in a perpetual state of conflict, can we escape this dire situation. We are now 100 years since the formal demise of the Ottoman state, what does the next 100 years look like.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 140

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:10 The Two Warlords
19:25 US Motives
24:51 The UAE
31:00 Darfur
34:30 Our future – Sami’s call

I have been struck by the thoughtful and nuanced conversations that are being had across the US about the coming elections. But there remains confusion. One such community that probably has reason to be sceptical of mainstream Muslim organisations and their approach to politics, as relationships, is the all-important African American Muslim community – very often neglected in any conversation.

I have invited today to show someone who I deeply respect for how he thought through these essential topics long before Gaza came along to haunt us. Imam Dawud Walid is the author of Towards Sacred Activism and an Imam in Michigan.

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Timestamps
0:00 - introduction
:25 – African Americans and Harris
5:32 – Divisions between black and immigrant Muslim
9:12 – His position
17:00 – Sacred activism and foreign thought
24:53 – Michigan and Trump
38:13 – The political left
49:32 – Practical activism
56:35 – Political Tarbiyyah
1:06:04 – Western ideology
1:08:10 – Gaza Anxiety

To help us unpick the relationship between Western foreign policy and media our guest this week is Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist whose work focuses on Palestine. He has reported on daily life under occupation for Palestinians, including home demolitions and forced expulsion and the conditions for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. He is an investigative journalist at Declassified amongst other publications.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
3:00 – The narrative of genocide
5:10 – A Reckoning?
6:49 – Mainstream media
8:55 – Case studies
18:45 – Media coordination
24:25 – Some sympathetic voices
26:24 – A free press?
30:47 – Racism?
34:34 – Social media?
37:20 – Change in western perceptions?
39:33 – A pariah state?
41:27 – Hamza’s work
47:00 – Muslims in journalism
49:49 – Money for independent media
51:42 – Alternative media

For a conscientious Muslim, managing ones money in the West can be a difficult prospect. Islam has a series of rules to do with money, the prohibition of riba (interest) being the key one, and rules on trade that often places it at odds with a rather laissez faire Neo liberal model. Muslims feel a sense of unease when we place our money in banks or engage is investment opportunities that may contravene Islamic precepts.

Our guest today was an Islamic finance industry insider. Harris Irfan is currently the CEO of Cordoba Capital Markets. He has 29 years of investment banking and consulting experience. He was the former co-founder of Deutsche Bank's world-leading Islamic finance team and CEO of Deutsche's Islamic finance subsidiary. He is the Former Global Head of Islamic Finance at Barclays, then Head of Investment Banking for the Rasmala group. He is also the author of "Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance", the critically acclaimed best-seller about the Islamic finance industry.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 162

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:24 - His last show
4:03 – Alternative to Banks
8:17 – Participatory Model
9:15 – Why should we care?
11:50 – Is Islamic Economy Possible?
14:44 – The Spiritual Economy
16:05 – Rizq and how we engage
19:43 – Young Finance People
21:07 – Getting Lost in Capitalism
22:23 – The Halal Economy
26:05 – Risk Sharing
30:43 – All too difficult?
33:00 – How to invest 10K
35:48 – Common Pitfalls
38:12 – Business Mudaraba
43:13 – VC Model
44:13 – Fiat Money and Downturns
50:36 – Islamic Money
52:27 –Get Rich Quick
54:58 – Saving Money
1:04:15 – The Muslim Block
1:08:54 – Muslim Financial Weakness

The US elections are nearly upon us, and we have all be subject to the empty words and rhetoric of of the two main political parties. The Green Party has gained a lot of traction, especially amongst the countries small but very important Muslim community. I have already interviewed the leader of the Greens, Dr Jill Stein. But Today I have the pleasure to speak with Professor Butch Bilal Ware, its Vice Presidential nominee.
Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. For the past two decades, Ware has put scholarship in service of the people, especially in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the George Floyd murder in 2020.

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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Embrace Islam at 15
5:00 Malcolm X and radicalism
9:09 Sufis and being radical
13:21 Diluting radical tradition
19:40 Green Party and Liberals
23:25 Green’s and social issues
31:57 Uyghurs and foreign policy
40:06 His political leanings
45:55 Can Muslims work independently
52:44 Voting for Trump
58:31 George Floyd
1:03:32 Fascism in US
1:11:42 Dismantling Empire

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From the war in Yemen to raves in Riyadh, political analyst Sami Hamdi analyses the ‘modern’ Saudi Arabia as a regional power. Many see the country to be a staunch ally, even stooge of the United States, yet others hail its recent strategic turn under Muhammad Bin Salman as a sign that at last the country is looking to forge an independent path. From moon sighting to Hajj, the country remains at the centre of Muslim religious life, yet we can’t but observe with horror the activities of its crown prince and de facto leader and his vanity infrastructure projects such as NEOM. So how do we analyse the country and its future?

Sami Hamdi is the Managing Director of the International Interest, a global risk and intelligence company. He advises governments on the geopolitical dynamics of Europe and the MENA region and has significant expertise in advising companies on commercial issues related to volatile political environments and their implications on market entry, market expansion, and managing of stakeholders. Sami is also featured as a commentator for Aljazeera (Arabic and English), Sky News, BBC, TRT World, and other outlets.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 92

00:00 Introduction
01:37 Saudi's increasing liberalisation
03:41 Introduction of entertainment facilities
10:42 A reaction to Salafism?
13:28 Popularity of measures among Saudis
19:30 Foreign interventions
25:13 Vision 2030
26:57 Economic growth and religious reforms
31:22 New rules in masjids
41:37 What makes Islam a threat?
45:36 Keeping Muslims in the dark
51:16 Regional politics
51:51 Truce with Iran
1:00:00 China
1:02:41 Saudi and the US
1:07:21 MBS's genius statesmanship
1:12:10 Ties with Israel
1:21:50 The future of the Ummah in the region
1:28:00 Allah preserves his religion

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The Abandon Harris campaign has been making waves across the US. It has galvanised largely Muslim and conscientious Americans so build a coalition together to resist the genocidal administration through the ballot box. They have a lot of detractors, paid democratic people ready to defame them. But my guest today is relentless.
Hassan Abdel Salam is one of two founders of the Abandon Harris movement. He is also the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Alliance for America, which is the organization that is organizing and coordinating the Abandon Harris movement. Hassan Abdel Salam has been a professor of strategy, movements, and human rights, for 12 years.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 – His movements
5:54 – The Greens
9:13 – Is this realistic ?
18:40 – A return to Democrats
23:32 – Trump
28:20 – Are you winning?
35:51 – Is the appeal just Muslim?
43:44 – Speaking truth

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The pro-genocide administration of Biden and Harris has been involved in a frenetic outreach to America’s small but vocal Muslim community. These critical constituents in crucial battleground states like Michigan are where November’s election will be won or lost. Both parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are Zionist to their core, but this genocide has happened with the seal of approval and the consent of the Biden-Harris administration.
Is Gaza a turning point? Can we move beyond this two-party nightmare? Are third-party options plausible in a system that approves only two possibilities? Or is voting for anyone but the two bad options a wasted vote? And what of the broader question of the US empire and its propensity to violence? How will this election address what the world observes as an imperium without moral or ethical standards?
Today I have a very special guest, Dr Jill Stein, leader of the Green Party and Presidential candidate. Jill is a Harvard educated doctor, an environmentalist, campaigner and organiser.

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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Is a vote for the Green Party a vote for Trump?
6:27 Voters vs Donors
7:31 Why is Kamala Harris not opposing the Genocide?
9:22 Does the Green Party have a Syria problem?
12:47 Oppressive leaders
14:24 Mehdi Hasan's position on Kamala Harris
20:33 How does voting Green Party help Gaza?
22:00 Green Party being contested
23:30 AIPAC is running America
25:38 The Responsibility of a Third Party
32:41 Building a Third Party for the American people
35:00 Muslims in the Green Party
39:50 5% of The Popular vote
44:46 Dr Stein's vision of American power?
50:59 Where do Ordinary Americans stand?
59:26 It's Not Too Late

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Gaza has been a hurtful experience. This year we saw the passing of a milestone, 100 years without a central leadership. The last Ottoman Caliphate, with all its faults, remained a global force and acted as a shield for this ummah. So why have we declined to such a degree that it seems our leadership is inept and our ummah has not moved over Gaza. And what now can we do about it?
Dr Tareq al-Suwaidan is a prolific writer, speaker, trainer and in many ways has brought much needed intellectual thought to our age.

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0:00 Introduction
2:21 – Why has the ummah not moved?
7:18 – is it s leadership issue
12:10 – Western interference?
14:10 – Excuses of the rulers
17:03 – Decline inevitable?
25:28 – Prophetic method
34:25 – Do we need a new leader?
37:41 – Muslim political unity
42:58 – Poor scholarship
51:55 – Responding to Gaza’s pain
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The Sunni Shia divide remains an open wound and a means by which our enemies meddle in our internal affairs. Since the war on terror, and the horrible sectarianism unleashed on Iraq, this divide has got even bigger and has often led to bloody violence. However, amidst this turmoil, we often hear voices from within the Ummah and beyond, dreaming of unity to confront the misery, humiliation, and suffering of the oppressed, especially in the current situation with Palestine. But it’s a difficult topic, there are a host of theological and political concerns and the current tussle between Saudi Arabia and Iran makes any talk of reconciliation or an overlapping consensus politically charged.

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0:00 – Introduction
1:55 – Iraq: Framing sectarianism
10:00 – Iran’s Shia exceptionalism
15:30 – Iran and Shia not the same
16:48 – Why do we need unity?
21:03 – Overlapping consensus?
22:06 – How do we do this?
24:32 – Declaring takfir and abuse of companions
31:44 – A major cultural shift?
33:50 – Our enemies using our division

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The ongoing slaughter in Gaza and now the carpet bombing of Lebanon has at its backdrop the US elections. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have clearly stated their intentions to back Israel, and it is hard sometimes to place a cigarette paper between them. Some have sought to characterise Harris as a better candidate, suggesting she will be ready to restrain Israel, although with little evidence, and others have conceded her stance to be not dissimilar to Biden – but the other side, Trump, would be worse. They evoke the ‘lesser of the two evils’ argument to suggest that for Muslims, holding your nose and voting is better than not voting.
Not withstanding the fact that those using the lesser of the two evils argument previously asked American Muslims to vote for Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden – all of whom seem to compete with Shaytan on how much evil they could dispense. But the height of evilness has been the execution of this genocide, which has been on the watch of the Democrats.  So how should American Muslims respond to the genocide. Should they abandon Harris? I am planning to visit the US very soon inshallah and will be meeting with American Muslim leaders and others as I attempt to piece together an answer to these crucial questions. But to begin the conversation, I have invited back onto the show Sami Hamdi to share his thoughts.

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0:00 – Introduction
03:00 Is there a Harris bounce in the polls
07:06 If Harris loses, Zionism loses?
13:34 Why is AIPAC worried?
20:00 Shifting US public opinion
26:58 Muslims in swing states
30:01 Supporting Trump
38:19 Third-party candidates
48:21 Should we endorse Jill Stein
57:39 The lesser of the two evils
1:18:00 Are US Muslims ready for sacrifice
1:39:40 Non-Muslim allies

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Should we, people who remain married to justice, accept that international law, if it ever did work, is today defunct? In a broader sense, when we pursue its application are we in danger of creating a sense of false hope. These are the existential questions we are now asking ourselves as the genocide proceeds at pace into its 2nd year.
My guest today is Francesca Albanese, an international lawyer who has been in the eye of the storm, speaking truth at the highest levels. Francesca specialises in international humanitarian law and is the special rapporteur for the UN reporting on Palestine.

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
3:21 – Is international law the problem?
5:05 – ICC ruling, why the delayed decision?
7:07 – How effective are the ICJ judgements ?
9:54 – Who is the system working for?
11:05 – Is Francesca hopeful about international justice?
13:27 – David Lammy and the definition of genocide
16:51 – The reluctance of the West to call this a genocide
19:30 – Is October 7th a catalyst for ethnic cleansing?
26:03 – Can Israel be isolated by the UN?
29:27 – Arab and Muslim countries lack of solidarity
33:48 – How successful can the ICJ complaint be?
37:08 – Weaponizing of antisemitism
41:40 – How can young Muslims stay active?
44:45 – How does Francesca stay motivated in an unjust world?

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What does Trump mean for the wider world, how do we position Trump’s America First philosophy in the context of US Unipolarity. Are we seeing the unravelling of the US in the world? To help us understand Trumps America I am happy to have back on the show Sami Hamdi. Sami is an analysts and campaigner and we are forever indebted to his energy.

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
3:49 – How much did Gaza play in Kamala’s loss?
17:00 – The Muslim community’s role in Kamala’s loss
21:15 – The Green Party not a vehicle?
23:00 – The power of Dawah
31:30 – Has Gaza brought about a shift?
37:11 – Is Netanyahu emboldened by the Trump presidency?
43:45 – Does Iran have to worry about Trump?
56:42 – Is the Trump administration going to be more ‘America First’?
1:04:35 – ‘America First’ from a trade perspective
1:10:37 – Gaza created a new environment
1:14:27 – What will dictate the future of America?
1:15:58 – Public opinion in America turning towards Nationalism?
1:19:25 – Dawah’s ability to shift society
1:27:20 – Never forget that Gazans are at the centre of all of this
1:38:30 – The reward for our activism is Jannah – centre this
1:43:00 – Connecting Dawah to politics
1:55:09 – Is politics so ingrained within Sami that he will carry on in Jannah?
1:57:56 – We all build on the backs of each other
1:58:45 – Imagine the impact we have if we continue moving