On sanctimony and religious cliquery as unwitting forms of reactive modernism
Hasan Spiker

The Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, said, “Whoever faults his brother for some wrong shall not die before doing it himself.”
The Content of Character, tradition 126.…

Blogging Theology Academy is thrilled to announce that Professor Joseph Lumbard has joined our faculty as Visiting Lecturer. He brings a wealth of research and teaching experience in Quranic studies, philosophy and theology, and the development of epistemologies in Islam. Dr…

Dr. Durrani is the guy for Afghan/Pashtun history. Give him a follow.

We are all in sleeplessness and fever over the excruciating suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine. No other people are like us in this. There is nothing like the Muslim Umma. Yet amongst us all, the one for whom their suffering is the most grievous, is our master…

ISLAM PUTS HEGEL IN 'A VERY AWKWARD SITUATION'
A response, by Hasan Spiker, to Alexander Dugin
In his interesting exposition of Hegel, Dugin fails to mention that Hegel is without doubt the most prominent thinker to have ever attempted a metaphysical justification for his vision…

TWO MULLAS Episode 2 Hijra Special
This is actually the original episode, postponed in consideration of the outbreak of the War on Palestine. We were in two minds about releasing this pre-War episode, until we realized that its message about hijra is now more urgent than ever.

TWO QUR'ANIC MIRACLES FORETELLING THE CREATION OF ISRAEL And We decreed for the Children of Israel in the Book: 'Twice will you work corruption in the earth, and you shall become great tyrants.' (Qur'an 17:4)
when the last promise [the second corruption] comes to pass, We will…

WHY IS 'NEUTRAL' LIBERALISM BIASED TOWARDS (e.g.) TRANSGENDERISM and BIASED AGAINST (e.g.) ISLAM ?
Liberalism historically arose in large part as an arbitrator between rival Christianities, as a better solution to the separative Absolutism that emerged in the wake of the Peace of…

The Five Bifurcations of Western Thought and Religion
(a conceptual framework which emerges from my forthcoming book, The Unravelling of Intelligibility)

1 The split between the spirit and the law in Pauline antinomianism.
2 The split between temporal power and spiritual power…

I enjoyed this episode of Closer to Truth with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
closertotruth.com/video/yusha-00…

Will be meeting with Paul Williams on Friday to discuss this essay, 'Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty.' Let us know what points you are interested in seeing addressed on YT: mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/4…

al-Shaykh al-Akbar. Essence vs phenomenal manifestation
“Distinct entities do not turn into other than themselves, and essences do not change. Fire, thus, burns of its essence, but not by its phenomenal manifestation. The words of the Most High, O fire, be coolness and safety…

al-Shaykh al-Akbar agreeing with the Ashʿaris ...
“…were the [phenomenal manifestations of essences] to persist for two moments or more, they would be characterized by independence from God at those moments. This conclusion is not upheld by any group, other than the truly…

Never forget, not even for one hour.

On sanctimony and religious cliquery as unwitting forms of reactive modernism
Hasan Spiker

The Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, said, “Whoever faults his brother for some wrong shall not die before doing it himself.”
The Content of Character, tradition 126.…

Ehrman's comment contains a hidden secular assumption about the nature of history and the Quran's authorship that cannot be accepted by any Muslim. He can only process a Qur'an that in his mind is not (and cannot be) Revelation. This methodology highlights a serious flaw in the…

Will everyone stop being a PhD candidate please ? It's annoying.

The noble Sufi master of the Naqshbandi way, Sayyidi Shaykh Hasan Kiliç Efendi has returned to his Lord.

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

We had the immense honour of meeting him in August 2022 in Istanbul.

May Allah raise his ranks and grant patience to his family and followers.

ON “SCIENCE” A Twitter thread by Hasan Spiker.
We don't have 'rijāl al-dīn' (a priestly class, nor even 'clerics') in Islam, we have al-ʿulamāʾ, the possessors of knowledge. (1)

ALAS FOR GAZA, OUR LOSS OF MORAL CERTITUDE
Imām al-Awzāʿī, and the impotence of our international institutions
Hasan Spiker

In the eighth century, one Muslim man, one Muslim moral authority, singlehandedly barred an army of Abbasid soldiers from committing ethnic cleansing and…