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Sami Hamdi for the past five months has helped us untangle and understand the motives and actions of the actors that wage genocide in Gaza. The conflict, if that is even a proper term to use, seems to be continuing despite discussions of an end game. At the time of recording this interview, we have heard from Joe Biden casually licking an ice cream and talking of ceasefires when tens of thousands starve in Northern Gaza. The callousness with which the west now talk of mopping up a crime scene is staggering. How can a liberal west, fixated on preaching rights have maintained this collective pretence?

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 139

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:40 – Reception in the US
8:30 – US Empire
13:30 – Ummatic and national identity
20:56 – Traveling the Muslim world
30:49 – Netanyahu out of control?
39:54 – Trump?
53:50 – US foreign policy
1:04:18 Iran and Houthis
1:05:38 Sami and Sectarianism
1:11:02 – Muslim rulers?
1:13:59 – Palestinian Authority

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Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum and former Al Jazeera Director General from 2003 to 2011.

Gaza has been described as a graveyard of children. But it also represents a graveyard of the liberal world order. The very values that undergird this so-called rules-based system have been revealed for what they really are — a set of norms created to preserve the interests of the West. Their unrepentant support for the worst crimes of Israel, the brutality of indiscriminate bombings, the targeting of civilian infrastructure, the carpet bombings of entire neighbourhoods, and the use of the most wicked weaponry – without even the slightest murmur from Western capitals have consolidated a new consciousness. Violence has never been absent under the auspices of this order. Instead, the system was created to safeguard these perpetrators from prosecution. Like the rotten empires of old, as their failures domestically and internationally mount, so too does the duplicity with which they act. This is not an abdication of liberalism; this is, in fact, consistent with the very programme this ideology has to offer. Our guest today argues that in many ways, this is a coming of age for many, including much of what is called the ‘Global South’.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 123


Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:48 Western Crimes in Gaza
10:45 Exaggeration of US downfall?
16:20 Dictators and Authoritarians
19:30 Imagined communities and Caliphates?
24:10 Muslim leaders
27:50 The EU and Unity
32:30 Israel and US Power
38:20 Media Narrative
43:01 Leading the Global South
48:00 China’s Rise
51:01 Uyghurs
54:01 Al Jazeera
57:40 Citizen Journalism
1:00:31 Arab Spring Over?
1:03:00 Is this a period of hope?

99 years ago, the Ottoman Caliphate, the world's last widely recognised caliphate, was abolished on 3 March 1924 (27 Rajab 1342 AH) by decree of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The process was one of Atatürk's reforms following the replacement of the Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey. Abdulmejid II was deposed as the last Ottoman caliph, as was Mustafa Sabri as the last Ottoman Shaykh al-Islām.

We explore the circumstances that led to this momentous event. Why did the Ottoman Caliphate fall? What should this date mean to us and what impact did this decision have on Muslims at the time and has on us today?

Dr Yakoob Ahmed holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. An Ottoman historian, he is currently teaching Islamic history at Istanbul University and was a visiting fellow at the Modern Turkish Studies Centre at Istanbul Şehir University. His research focuses are Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, identity, nationalism and collective memory construction.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 85

00:00 - 2:32 Introduction
2:32- 6:24 Visit to the US
6:24 – 9:09 British Muslims' questions about the Ottomans
9:09 - 13:00 What does the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate symbolise?
13:00 - 17:10 How much is the Ottoman Caliphate a model for a future Caliphate, why are Ottomans not referred to enough?
17:10 - 24:00 Why was the last Caliph deposed? What is the significance of separating the Caliphate from the Sultanate?
24:00 -29:10 Who were the Nationalists who deposed the last sultan and what were their motivations? Were the revolutionaries in 1908 anti-Islamic?
29:10 - 29:45 Emergence of Nationalism as a response to the collapse of the Caliphate
29:45- 35:26 Why were people against Sultan Abdul Hamid even though he stabilized the period of the annexation of Muslim lands?
35:26- 37:50 Role of the West in inciting nationalism within the Muslim community of European territories under the Ottomans
37:50 - 38:32 Role of Arabism in paving paths for Arab Nationalism
38:32 - 40:52 Impact of First World War on Muslims
40:52 - 45:12 How far does the Ottoman internal feeling of inferiority after the First World War, in the midst of the rise of technological power of the Europeans, contribute to their decline?
45:12 - 49:23 Understanding the debate between Islam and the subscription of the Caliphate to Modernity
49:23 - 53:47 What led the Ottomans to support the Germans in the First World War?
53:47 - 1:01:24 What is the reason for the Empire to remove the Caliphate completely even when it did not have any political or legislative power?
1:01:24 -1:08:19 About the attempts in different parts of the world to re-establish the Caliphate
1:08:19- 1:12:46 What happened to Mustafa Sabri after he was removed?
1:12:46-1:13:59 The complexities of understanding historical events
1:13:59- 1:16:55 Chances for a new Caliphate
1:16:55 - 1:17:15 Additional resources

This week we explore the issues Farhat Amin raises in her new book ‘Smart Teenage Muslimah, an inspirational guide for Muslim Girls’. Farhat is concerned with Muslim girls' challenges in the West and how society impacts their sense of identity and self.

Farhat Amin addresses the challenges Muslim women and girls face in Western societies through her engagements. Her writings delve into the unfiltered realities, tackling pressing topics such as the shifting dynamics of the Muslim marriage scene, the objectification of hijab, and the unforeseen impact of modern feminism on women's well-being. Her meticulous research and insightful analysis offer a fresh Islamic perspective on these topics, encouraging readers to question long-held assumptions and engage in meaningful dialogue.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 96

0:00-1:57 Introduction
1:57-4:57 What problem do you address among teenage Muslimas?
4:57-10:00 Who is accountable for the problems?
10:00-14:37 Books to enhance Muslim women's confidence in faith
14:37-18:14 Teaching experience in institutions with a sizeable Muslim population
18:14-20:48 Impact of feminism on young Muslim girls
20:48-26:10 Te concept of "equality" between men and women
26:10-30:11 Is your approach to young girls conservative?
30:11-32:33 Which type of Muslim woman do you think is ideal?
32:33-37:07 How significant are surroundings to teenagers, and where can one find communities that support them?
37:07-44:42 Does basic sex education expose young girls to early sexualization and rob them of their innocence?
44:42-50:24 When would you introduce a young person to a mobile phone?
50:24-53:41 How much do liberal narratives affect Muslim girls?
53:41-56:17 Are there any resources for young boys with a religious focus?
56:17-1:02:02 What do you think about parents who keep their kids out of society to protect their faith?
1:02:02-1:06:55 What can Muslim communities do to encourage young Muslim women to feel that Islam is not a problem?
1:06:55-1:07:09 Additional information

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Every year, the list of beleaguered Muslim countries and people increases, and with it, the demand for charity. We are used to giving in sadaqa – and our kindness as a community is rarely matched. The Muslim community in the UK alone gives upwards of £1bn in charity – much of which goes abroad.

The situation in Gaza has once again led to a determined effort by many to contribute to charitable causes. As Ramadan comes, inevitably, our minds and hearts will turn to those in our umma who live this month with nothing but the clothes on their back; such is the parlous state of Muslims.

But does charity work? What is charity? Is building a water well, however satisfying, the way to reconstruct our Muslim world? Are there better ways by which we can use our money without compromising on our commitment to our people? To help us understand this subject, we have invited a charity insider, probably someone who is most qualified to help us untangle this topic, onto The Thinking Muslim.

Kashif Shabir has over 15 years’ experience in the social impact and charity sector. He was until recently the CEO of Muslim Aid, one of the oldest faith-based NGOs in the UK. He has worked for, and help found several Muslim charities, including The National Zakat Foundation & Charity Right and held leadership positions at some of the largest mainstream charities including as Head of Knowledge and Learning at Oxfam and the British Red Cross, as part of their strategic change management team.

Kashif sits on several advisory boards, including BOND, the largest network of organisations working in international development and Muslim Aid USA. He currently leads the Social Impact Advisory at Qadr Financial and is the founder of Ethical Consulting Group where he works with Charities, Family Offices and Government agencies to improve their effectiveness and maximise their social impact.

Kashif is available for executive coaching and consulting opportunities through the Ethical Consulting website www.ethicalltd.com

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 144

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
3:00 Can Charity Solve Gaza?
6:41 Unwra defunded – how does aid get through
8:59 Muslim Charities in Gaza
12:06 Sticking plaster solutions
14:09 Longer-term development
18:29 Compare non-Muslim charities
21:30 International development
23:27 Muslim charities bad?
32:01 Muslim unity issues
34:26 1 billion spent on charity in UK
37:07 Islam and charity
40:50 Awqaf
44:16 Charity more than emergency
5144 Humanitarian not enough
54:09 Advocacy work
57:46 Muslim vote
1:02:42 UK Vs US Muslims
1:04:44 100% donation policy
1:11:30 Outcomes are important

The events in Gaza, the horrific slaughter of over 20,000 Gazans remains a deep wound all people of conscience have had to contend with over the past two months. The callous way with which the lives of young innocents can be so openly calculated and traded is shocking yet predictable in equal measure. Much of what has happened is premised on a set of collective myths the west has attempted to perpetuate about Israel and its intentions. A compliant media and a political class that have provided a thin veneer of acceptability to Israel’s murderous rampage has all but shattered the myth that the west holds the moral high ground.

Today we forensically explore the myths that surround the current crisis. To help us understand the situation better we have back onto the show Dr Azzam Tamimi who is a Palestinian British academic, author of Hamas the unwritten chapter.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode128

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
02:18 Hamas broke peace
03:15 Hamas upset an uneasy peace
04:35 Ceasefire
06:47 Hamas a creation of Israel?
08:25 Split between Hamas and PA
09:49 River to the Sea?
12:08 One State and Jews?
13:52 Western backing
15:39 A Two-State Solution
17:46 Ethnic Cleansing?
20:07 US complicity
21:05 Israel Only Democracy?
23:37 Western Values?
25:12 Arabs in Israel
27:19 Jews Persecuted in Arab Lands
30:06 Israeli’s Partner for Peace
31:18 Gaza a Open Air Prison?
33:16 Justifying 7 Oct?
34:40 – Hamas atrocities
36:20 – Egypt
37:28 – Hamas Elected?
38:47 – Hamas effective as administrators?
40:55 – Arab Countries Strength?
42:52 – Militaries to Aqsa?
44:00 – Compromise?
46:20 – Muslims and Elections
49:11 – Labour?
50:10 – Salahuddin?

The issue of the caliphate has recently made a resurgence within Muslim discourse. For nearly 100 years the Muslim ummah has been without a caliphate, and many have come to the view that the world of empires is behind us, and we now must embrace the era of nation-states. Yet the issue remains a live one, Islam and Muslims have remained tortured by our lack of ability to resolve some of the most intractable problems we face – leading to the suggestion that establishing a post-nation state brings together our resources, people and potential.

Dr. Uthman Badar has been thinking about the concerns of the caliphate. He is the lead editor at the Ummatics Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Western Sydney University in 2023, where he currently teaches. He is also an active Muslim community member in Sydney, Australia, with over two decades of engagement in grassroots activism and da’wah.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 98

00:00 Opening clip
00:29 Introduction
02:04 Normative Islamic position on the caliphate
09:03 Deficiency in the absence of a caliphate
13:15 What about explicit textual proof?
19:51 Does governance always have to be in the form of the caliphate?
24:37 Reach of the state in historical caliphates
27:49 Implementing the shariah
30:50 Learning from historical experience
34:18 The obligation of the caliphate - a fardh kifayah
41:14 Who is most obligated?
48:39 What kind of expertise do we need?
51:54 Advocacy or Da'wah work
55:39 What can an ordinary Muslim contribute?
01:04:24 Is the caliphate a forgotten obligation?
01:10:37 On groups and thinkers since the fall of the caliphate
01:16:50 The Ummatics Conference in Istanbul
01:19:33 When will the caliphate be realised again?
01:21:25 Additional information

Watch our episode with Yakoob Ahmed on the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate 99 years ago.

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Dr Jonathan Brown joins us this week to engage in an in-depth discussion about the Hadith corpus and why contemporary arguments forwarded by orientalists and modernists lack rigour. He takes us on a journey of informed exploration of some of the key personalities and thinkers of early Islam and the lengths they went through to determine the veracity of a tradition attributed to the Messenger of Allah (saw).

His books include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon, Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009) and His most recent book, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (Oneworld, 2014), was named one of the top books on religion in 2014 by the Independent. He is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 86

0:00 - 1:16 Introduction
1:16 - 10:19 Definition of Hadith and its value in Islam
10:19 - 13:20 Does the Quran and Sunnah have equal precedence?
13:20 - 17:09 Why Sunnah of the Prophet is important
17:09 - 24:14 Quran without Sunnah; Sunnah in Islamic law
24:14 - 24:43 Does the Quran authorize the Sunnah?
24:43 - 27:16 What is the Sunnah?
27:16 - 29:29 Connection between the Sunnah as a source of Shariah and as a rule of action
29:29 - 30:07 Do Hanafis regard the Wajib as a lesser obligation than Fardh?
30:07 - 39:19 Are sunnah and hadith synonyms? How to know the Prophet's Sunnah?
39:19 - 53:48 Hadith collection in the first 200 years after the Prophet, why did Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim compile and verify Hadiths?
53:48 - 55:28 The emergence of Hadith criticism based on isnad
55:28 - 59:48 Arrangement of Hadith books topic-wise and with complete isnad to Prophet Muhammad
59:48 - 1:06:21 Did the Hadith compilers appeal to the ruling class?
1:06:31 - 1:10:51 What blinds Western scholars to diverse assumptions about history?
1:10:51 - 1:16:33 How does a questionable Hadith not raise serious issues in usage?
1:16:33 - 1:39:52 The criteria for determining the authenticity of a Hadith
1:39:52 - 1:48:13 Relationship between a Hadith scholar and a Jurist (Muhaddith and a Mujtahid)
1:48:13 - 1:56:48 Comments on Abu Hurairah's Hadith reports as misogynistic
1:56:48 - 2:03:40 Islamic law on a person’s rejection of Hadith
2:03:40 - 2:03:56 Additional resources

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The case of Aafia Siddiqui remains an open wound for us all. It symbolises the inhumanity and barbarism of US foreign policy. The incarceration of this brilliant academic and mother of three, has become a marker of its excesses, of which there were many. She languishes in prison, serving an 86-year sentence for an offence that looks barely credible, the attempted murder of two US officials in Afghanistan in 2008. Her whereabouts before that date has been hotly contested, but her lawyers and activists have patched together the conspiracy surrounding Dr Aafias ordeal. Sadly the welfare of her youngest son Suleman – who has not been seen since her detention in 2003 remains unknown. Presumed dead.

The last time I spoke with Dr Aafias lawyer Clive Stafford Smith he had returned from her prison in Forth Worth Texas – where she had been reunited with her sister Fozia for the first time in 20 years. If you haven’t watched that programme, I would highly recommend you do to give you the backstory to this horrific case. Clive has just returned from a factfinsding mission to Afghanistan, and he has some considerable updates on Aafias case.

Clive has helped secure the release of 86 prisoners from Guantánamo Bay and still acts for the remaining numbers. Since the early days of the War on Terror, he has worked tirelessly to force the Americans and other Western powers to adhere to the rule of law. He has sought to uncover the secret prisons and ghost prisoners that stain the reputation of powerful states – who presented their wars in benevolent terms.

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#thethinkingmuslimpodcast episode 146

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
2.33 – Letter writing to Aafia
3:40 – Funds
4:30 – Summary of her case
8:38 – Aafia in Bagram
11:30 – Muhamidi’s intervention
17:20 – The conspiracy to kill Aafia
19:38 – Why are you doing this?
23:00 – Her harsh treatment
24:37 – Why continued for so long?
26:35 – Aafia’s state of mind
29:04 – Afghanistan security
32:44 – Civil society connections
33:49 – How to help Aafia
38:22 – Media coverage
40:28 – Youngest son Suleiman
41:10 – Moazzam Begg – extremism
45:05 – Optimism

The events of the past 6 weeks have exposed the sheer double standards that apply to the implementation of international law. The so-called liberal international order has been found to be nothing short of hypocritical. Gaza has exposed not only this duplicity but also the very ideas that undergird such a system. Today, we explore these ideas. Many surmise that the West has taken a wrong turn, and if only they return back to their original noble enlightenment values. Yet Gaza unveils a more unsettling truth. That the values of secular liberalism have always remained connected to European chauvinism. Their unbridled support for a settler colonial project and the ease with which they absorb genocide reveals the unsettling nature of liberalism. This is the argument of my guest today, Hasan Spiker.

Hasan Spiker is a philosopher and comparative scholar of Islamic, Greek, and modern thought he studied at the University of Cambridge, where he received his MPhil in philosophy and where is carrying out his doctoral research. He also studied the Islamic sciences. His new book, Hierarchy and Freedom: An Examination of Some Classical Metaphysical and Post-Enlightenment Accounts of Human Autonomy, was released this year.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 124

Timestamps:


00:00 Introduction
02:21 Gaza a Turning Point?
07:30 Liberal justification for genocide?
10:49 Mill and Colonialism
12:55 John Rawls
17:32 Liberal interventions
22:10 Immanuel Kant’s Moral Philosophy
24:05 Western superiority
31:20 Islam and rights
35:20 Origin of Maqasids
37:36 Islamic diversity and government
43:52 Liberalism’s crusading spirit
45:12 Good liberals?
50:36 What do liberals want of Islam?
53:40 Muslims in the West
56:20 Islam and diversity
1:02:08 Gaza and Opportunity?