Episode 10

The Genealogy of Conservatism: From the Magna Carta to Modernity

This episode introduces an historical overview of the political, economic and social philosophies of the Right.

We look at the development of 'reason' and the 'reasonable' man who sought freedom, the pursuit of wealth and happiness.

How was the Muslim world impacted by these philosophical and political developments imposed on it through colonialism?

How do we understand these phenomena from the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition?

** For further reading, please refer to the works of the following conservative thinkers:

John Locke (political theory)

Immanuel Kant (enlightenment)

John Stuart Mill (social philosophy)

Edmund Burke and Adam Smith (economics)

The online services of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Stanford University and Wikipedia also provide very good summaries and analyses.

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Left or Right? The Straight Path Please
An overview, analysis and critique of contemporary left and right wing ideologies from the perspective of the Qur’anic Straight Path metaphor and the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition. For women listeners only.

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MISK Women

Umm Abdullah is the developer of MISK Women at the Muslim Institute for Sacred Knowledge and is a student of the Islamic Scholarly and Spiritual Tradition. She presents podcasts, Zoom classes and courses focusing on developing English-speaking Muslim womens' textual competence through the engagement of sacred texts and contextual competence through analysis and critique of the modern world from an Islamic perspective.