Sull Kaak’s Podcast – Season 1 – The Fall and Revival of Muslim Civilization
This is a commentary on Hamza Yusuf’s “Is the Matter of Metaphysics Immaterial? Yes and No” with a portion of discussion taken from Abdurrahman Mihrij’s “The Myth of Intellectual Decline – A Response to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf”. The topic has been covered in 6 parts. Click the titles below the trailer to visit the individual pages.
Episode 1: First Things First – Explore the profound questions of existence and the revival of metaphysics in the first episode of our enlightening podcast series on “The Fall and Revival of Muslim Civilization”.
Episode 2: The Defence of Faith and Religion – Metaphysics as the universal science: Imam al-Ghazali’s view on theology, its role in religious studies and in the defence of faith and religion, and the study of existence.
Episode 3: Reason and Muslims – A Bittersweet Relationship – Islamic philosophy’s early influence, decline, and the importance of balancing faith and reason. Know about the bittersweet relation between Muslims and Reason in this fascinating episode.
Episode 4: The Root Cause of Muslim Crisis – Modern philosophy’s shift to empirical sciences and neglect of metaphysics has had negative consequences on ethics and society. Explore the root cause of the crisis surrounding the Muslim Civilization in this episode.
Episode 5: Our Bad Academic Pursuits – Muslim societies’ decline: neglect of inquiry, focus on material sciences, brain drain, obsession of Medicine and Engineering and the Western polar opposite counterpart.
Episode 6: Reviving Muslim Civilization – Loss of metaphysics contributes to decline of faith. Wisdom rooted in tradition is the remedy for societal crises.