A newsletter from me, Abdulrahman Abu Maleh, and the Fنجان team, to the podcast’s close audience. https://thmanyah.link/8be1e3 I remember a saying: Everything around us in life is made by people like us who are not smarter than us. I believe in this idea, but the problem now is that all of this life and its concepts are Western. The freedom we know is by Western definition, like man and the reason for his existence, and like work, retirement, equality… all by Western definitions. This is what this episode addresses in one way or another with my guest, Dr. Wael Hallaq, Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “Has the Door of Ijtihad Been Closed?” as a result of insomnia and confusing questions that led him to this question. Although my guest is Christian, he researched Islamic history, and he even has a huge project aimed at shaking the dominant discourse on Islamic studies in the West, as he believes that the West understood us and looked at us through an Orientalist lens, so “it brought the holiday.” He says: I studied European history to understand Islamic history, because Islamic history as we know it today is not our history! What is Islamic history? How did Islamic law emerge and develop from the beginning of the Rashidun Caliphate, through Islamic states until the emergence of the modern state? When you open the door to the modern state and modernity, you open with it essential philosophical and moral doors and questions. Hallaq believes that modernity is a destructive project, and that the modern person is humiliated, and all of this is a product of the modern state that my guest claims is impossible to apply the provisions of Islamic law in! - • Share with me a guest or a topic you would like to hear about in a cup: https://thmanyah.link/37a0c7 • Own smart housing units with sustainable real estate services and innovative purchasing solutions, with Safa Investment Units: https://thmanyah.link/1di • “Salla” is the largest platform for e-commerce solutions in Saudi Arabia: https://thmanyah.link/is2 • Whether you are a coffee lover prepared by professional coffee makers or prefer to prepare it at home. We are honored to enrich the world of specialty coffee with you, start with one step: https://thmanyah.link/9y3 and share your experience with us through our interactive platforms. Episode topics: (00:00) The beginning (5:36) Wael Hallaq's most prominent works (8:15) What do we not know about our Islamic history? (11:49) The difference between colonialism and occupation (19:12) How do Islamic conquests differ from occupation? (31:23) The Orientalists' view of Islamic law (40:47) The formation of Islamic law and sciences (58:15) How did Islamic law develop? (1:09:20) The beginning of the formation of jurisprudence (1:23:10) The impact of the transition from the Rashidun Caliphate to the Umayyad state (1:32:24) What does it mean that Islam relies on Sufism? (1:39:42) Why Hanafi was chosen as the school of thought for the Islamic world (1:49:13) The impact of choosing a single school of thought (2:04:00) The concept of modernity (2:14:31) Man before and after modernity (2:21:21) Why is spirituality deceptive? (2:31:51) How modern man looks at life today (2:36:49) The separation of morality from everything (2:48:21) The impact of modernity (3:04:21) The problems of large corporations (3:13:06) Are morality necessarily equal to religion? (3:18:06) Was freedom present in Islam? (3:25:01) Equality before modernity (3:33:13) The impact of the modern state on the disintegration of society (3:44:10) Why is it impossible for there to be a modern Islamic state? (3:54:53) What solution will contribute to the establishment of a modern Islamic state? (4:01:56) Attempting to re-history China and India and the theory of progress (4:10:46) After the episode: The West stealing from Muslims Thmanyah website: https://thmanyah.link/fa44da Thmanyah radio: https://thmanyah.link/af2741 Thmanyah on Twitter: /thmanyah Thmanyah on Instagram: /thmanyah Thmanyah on TikTok: /thmanyah Thmanyah on Facebook: /thmanyah