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i heard today is shaykh syed naquib al-attas' birthday. below is a thread of some of his books, quotes and ideas I have shared over the months. 🧵 https://t.co/e6b4o3l3MV
On the surface this sounds promising and self-evident. The devil is in the detail. If the question of implementation of Quran and Sunnah was so easy and seamless, we would not hav...
Here are some of the best books that I read in 2023. 📚 🧵
Premodern societies had a very different understanding of "Time". They would measure time in terms of actions rather than action measured by time. For example, to go to the nearby...
Jews under the Crescent: - Jews enjoyed greater security in the Arab lands than Christian - Jews had their own courts bet din and were welcomed in Muslim courts as well - Jews "she...
Has Violence Decreased in the Modern World? Modern-day Hobbesians tell us that wars and conflicts have declined in the modern world. Yuval Harari and Steven Pinker are the common...
The Greeks are more at home in Africa and Asia than Western Europe. You'll find archaeological traces of the Greeks at Ai Khanoum in North Afghanistan, not in Germany or the "West....
A legacy of Colonialism & US imperialism: 🧵 Lord Cromer, the British ruler of occupied Egypt, was "despot abroad and democrat at home," just as much as he was "feminist abroad, bu...
The Origins and Nature of falsafa and kalam: falsafa: The philosophical tradition culminated with the unique synthesis of Aristotelianism, Neoplatism and original thought in the w...
In the 16th cent. the study of logic was so widespread such that i) ulema were called 'Theologian-Logician' ii) Many ahl al-Ĥadith scholars lamented this fact and said that everyo...
A short collection of books on Hadith Sciences 🧵: —Mustafa Azami, Studies in Early Hadith Literature 1/4 https://t.co/z5qXeHDYrg
Good thread by @husnayn_ I will address this point specifically about religion simply being a personal man-God relationship & a domain that has nothing to do with politics or socie...