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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

1 year

thread of my book recommendations: 🧵

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

1 month

The religious extremists psychopaths & their burger Desi dawah bros allies have done more damage to Islam in Pak than Secular, liberal and modernist Muslims could even dream of. Instead of paying lip service by saying "this is not Islamic way", have the courage to name the......

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where all my money goes

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"If Allah intends goodness for someone, he gives him understanding of the religion." [Bukhari]

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| Madrassa and Scholars in the Early Ottoman Period | Thread :🧵

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

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Book review: Defending Muhammad ﷺ in Modernity by @SheraliTareen 10/10 This book is the first comprehensive study of the Barelvī-Deobandī controversy, a polemical battle that has shaped South Asian Islam and Muslim identity in singularly profound ways.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

9 months

Book Recommendation: Islamic science and the making of European Renaissance by George Saliba. This book aims to reject the common narrative that science produce in the Islamic/Arab empires was only translations of Greek science. 1/10

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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If i have to choose a book that brought me near to islam, It is Islam and Secularism. This book made me a religious and moral person. Al-Attas' philosophy and methodology of education have one goal: Islamisation of the mind, body and soul and its effects on the personal 1/2

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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no @_titanslayer_

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booktwt users are so ugly, prove me wrong

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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@MohamadMurtaza_

7 months

some of the important work of Prof Wael Hallaq on Shari'a and on Orientalist scholarship work on Islamic Law (Shari'a).

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@MohamadMurtaza_

3 months

For those who want to understand the general attitude of Orientalist scholars towards Islamic philosophy. One of my favorite quotes by Wael Hallaq is: "Every scholar has an intention. No scholar writes and thinks without having an intention" (contrary to Baconian fallacy) 🧵

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@MohamadMurtaza_

8 months

Book Recommendation: On Schacht's origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence, Muhammad Mustafa Azmi. This in-depth study presents a detailed analysis and critique of the classic Western work on the origins of Islamic law, Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

8 months

8 books that had a major effect on my political thought.

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@_titanslayer_

8 months

4 books that had a major effect on your political thought

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@MohamadMurtaza_

2 years

In the current cohort, Lt-Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza is senior-most amongst the four frontrunners candidates who can replace Gen Bajwa. He came to prominence as DGMO during the last two years of Gen Raheel Sharif's tenure. In that role,

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@MohamadMurtaza_

2 years

History doesnt start from 2018. Your Messiah literally begged Musharraf for 100 seats.

Abdullah

@michaelscottfc

2 years

Not my fault mate that you worshipped someone as your messiah and he turns out to be an average fraudia. Loving the meltdown though. Carry on

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

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| Book Recommendation | Studies in Early Hadith Literature by Muhammad Mustafa Azmi. This book contains a survey of the literary activities in pre-Islamic Arabia, and of the early days of Islam in the region. 🧵

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

1 year

Yeah what's wrong with Ertugrul? lets be very clear, you have a problem with everything that's Islamic, Why Ertugrul is so much a problem,how its radicalising youth I mean fgs. This joker has no problem with Series like Money Heist,YOU etc in which every second scene is about sex

The Pakistan Experience

@ThePakistanExp1

1 year

How did a generation that grew up watching Cosmos in Urdu on PTV got in power and made the next generation watch Ertugrul in urdu on PTV?

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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spending all my ramzan here

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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people and groups that are brainwashing and pushing the local population to these extreme levels. I'm literally out of words.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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The Ottoman dawlah carried on the legacy of the two most giant intellectuals of Islam: Imam al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and Ar-Razi(d. 1209). The ottomans differed intellectually from the Mamūlks during the 14th and 16th century. | 🧵|

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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The purpose of Fiqh was not to control or discipline the subject, contrary to the modern state law, but for the setting of human life in good order.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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Recommendation This book & the article by Hallaq is one of the best pieces Ive read on late Ottoman reform. “Juristic Authority vs. State Power: The Legal Crises of Modern Islam" Wael Hallaq " Law, Empire, & the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority & Late Hanafi Jurisprudence."

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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| The Myth of Religious Violence |🧵 There are many attempt advanced by scholars separate religion (as prone to violence) from secular (less prone to violence. Religion, because it's absolutist, divisive, & nonrational. In this thread my focus is on absolutist claim. 1/

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

4 months

read my article on the formation of Islamic Tradition in south asia

How Islamic Tradition Became 'Foreign' in Modern India - South Asia Times

Colonial and Hindu nationalist views portray Islamic tradition as foreign in India, endangering its indigenous Muslim communities.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

5 months

Credit where it is due. Hallaq, Asad and Attas have many flaws but their writings have led to the emergence of a young sophisticated Muslim scholarship which is more self-conscious as compared to late modern reformers. They have laid the ground for us.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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Why does this guy think that every person that condemns the killing of an innocent Sunni Punjabi in Swat and condemns the misuse of blasphemy law + the people and groups that were involved in it is against Islam? if you believe it has nothing to do with Islam then say it clearly

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السلام علیکم، معزز و محترم بہن بھائیو، سوات واقعے کے حوالے پراپیگنڈہ مشینیں آن ہوچکی ہیں اور بلواسطہ طور پر اس کو اسلام سے نتھی کرنے کی کوششیں کی جارہی ہیں۔ اسی سلسلے میں الزام تراشیوں کی فیکٹریاں بھی بھرپور کام کر رہی ہیں۔ ان کا مقصد یہ ہے کہ کسی طرح سے اشتعال انگیزی کر کے کچھ

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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Whenever we defend Islamic History, scholars, Hadiths and Shari'a they always come up with labelling, like fanatics, orthodoxy or Ghazali lovers. I'm proud to be a muqalid of Imam Ghazali & all our great Imams of the past. It's 100 times better than the childish Ijitihad of ur

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@sabizak

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The favourite activity of people who deem themselves intellectual in Pakistan is to incessantly obsess over Islam. Politics or Islam, the only two topics that sell.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

4 months

My obsession with wearing black cotton every Eid>>>>

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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maturity is realizing that printed books are better than original copies.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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What a book🔥🔥🔥

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@MohamadMurtaza_

2 years

Honestly, I just don't understand, where did Afghans, “that are living in Pakistan”, get the confidence to criticize our intelligence agencies, Armed forces and Police. You are living in our country and you should be thankful.

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

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First of all, well if I misunderstood I'd be grateful to be correct instead of getting block. So first you spammed me with quotes and replies, then deleted it and then you blocked me after writing this thread... This is the last time I'm engaging with you. | Thread |

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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got a 2nd shelf finally.⭐

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all good books are like conversation with finest minds

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it's out

Are We Slaves To The Western World Order? Ft. Shershah Khan | 374 |...

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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Saiyid Sultan, a Bengali Muslim poet in the 16th century composed Nabī Bamsa a biography of Proophet Muhammad ﷺ, consist of more than 22,000 rhythms and couplets composed in the style of a Puranic epic, which effectively harmonized the word of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ with 1/4

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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Taking a gap year. The first thing I'm going to do is to learn Arabic, will extensively study Aqeedah, Islamic Intellectual history, Ottoman, Mughal and European History, and will start geopolitics again inshallah (if I get time for it). At least this is my plan for now.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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guess whose back? (exam is over allahamdulillah)

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Short Recommendation -Saffron Fascism Read this book to understand how RSS used the agenda of hindutva to piggy back on with rising Hinduism. I read this book long ago. This book shows and proves the real terrorism being carried out by the terrorist paramilitary 🧵

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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my current reads!

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just arrived! -📖 Logic And Transcendence, Frithjof Schuon.

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-📖 The Conclusive Argument from God, Shah Wali Allah Dhelvi.

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If academic writing is used as a weapon it must be used with good care and with responsibility. Neither of such qualities I find in these people. All they do is provocation and giving offensive remarks. | Thread |

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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The charge of sin of nostalgia and romanticism cannot hold to scrutiny if one engages with Hallaq works properly. The general criticism that comes from conventional professors are excuses to dodge the questions that Prof Hallaq has raised, whether it is orientalism, Modern state

Dr. Taimur Rahman

@Taimur_Laal

2 months

Wael B. Hallaq tends to generalise and romanticise pre-colonial Muslim societies. His understanding of medieval Islamic history is almost completely uncritical and idealised.

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Finally 🔥 "A history of Muslim World: From its origins to the Dawn of Modernity" by Michael Cook

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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The canons of Islamic intellectual history have changed significantly over the past 2 centuries. Scholars who happened to be the most influential are barely known today. 2 straight examples are 1. North African Ash'ari Muhammad b. Yusuf al Sanusi 2. Sa'd al Dīn al-Taftāzānī 🧵

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The Quranist/modernist skepticism towards hadiths is not an internal development from within Islamic intellectual tradition rather it is the modern pre-occupation with the absolute certainty. Absolute Truth is a recent uncommon phenomena, criteria for evaluating the events.. 1/7

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Eid Mubarak ✨

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| Review: Re-Opening of Muslim Minds, chapter 6 "How Shari'a became stagnant" by Mustafa Akyol | 🧵

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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The handbook Sullam al-ʿulūm (The Ladder of the Sciences) by Muhibbullah Bihari. This is one of the most successful of the later handbooks of Arabic logic, and by the nineteenth century was taught not only in India but also in Central Asia, Russian Tatarstan and Egypt.

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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taimur is delighted to see "journalists" discussing philosophy (not the philosophers discussing it.)

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@Taimur_Laal

3 months

Great to see mainstream journalists also discussing philosophical ideas. @UzmaRumi critiques Al-Ghazali.

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One of the major Indo-Muslim logician in Subcontinent from the 17th century was Abdul-hakim Sialkoti. He was born in Sialkot Punjab, modern day Pakistan and he studied with Kamāl al-Dīn Kashmīrī. He also studied in Lahore with ʿAbd al-Salām Lahori 🧵

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Ali Suavi, (1839 – 1878) was a Young Ottoman Turk political activist, journalist, educator, theologian and reformer. He was the very first to begin speaking of the sovereignty of God in modern times (even before Rida). His idea "sovereignty belongs to God" later influenced..

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Islamicize

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I want every young Muslims’ desks looking like this

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why is it always "what went wrong in Islam and the Muslim world that resulted in stagnation? " and not " what went wrong in Europe that led to modernity and Colonization?"

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weekends are good when you read all day

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if any book from this list is your fav read, we are not friends tata byebye

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Islamic intellectual tradition in Subcontinent was highly sophisticated Avicennian logical tradition. By the late nineteenth century, Indo-Muslim works on logic were being printed in Cairo and Kazan, suggesting that, by then, they were studied in those cities as well. | Thread|

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before Europe, empirical and scientific studies were widely spread in Muslim world on a far more extensive scale than had ever been attempted in all previous civilizations. Europe was the last one.

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"If one can explain that Islam has not an ethical benchmark ,then, as I said, I'm going to submit my resignation to Columbia university tomorrow morning." - The Ethics of Empire and Wealth: Ibn Khaldun and the modern state, W. Hallaq

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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Happy birthday Sayed Naqib Al-Attas. The scholar who changed my life and brought me near to Islam.

Pelita Dhihin Bookstore 🇵🇸🇲🇾

@pelitadhihin

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We extend our warmest wishes as Prof. Tan Sri Dr Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas celebrates his 92nd birthday. His lifelong dedication to knowledge and wisdom has left an indelible mark on generations, and we are honored to be a part of his journey.

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JONATHAN AC BROWN 😭😭🤎

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@MohamadMurtaza_

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This in-depth study presents a detailed analysis and critique of the classic Western work on the origins of Islamic law, Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence by Mustafa Azami. Schacht, Goldziher, Crone, Noel J. Coulson and the many likes of them are brutally debunked.

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@Taimur_Laal

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An extremely tedious book that nonetheless changes one’s paradigm on the development of fiqh in Islam. Sadly, its findings are almost completely unknown to the Muslim world.

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One of the problem with the Modern scholarship is that they take particular example & then imposed it on general. Prof Khaled El-Rouayheb argued that one can find many examples in pre-modern texts about in "some" rational scientific fields (This is good book on this topic) 1/3

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@DrJavadTHashmi @UzmaRumi @Taimur_Laal To support the basic claim: Narratives of decline appear in pre-modern Islamic societies, too. Ibn Jumayʿ wrote an entire treatise to Saladin, al-Maqālah al-Ṣalāhiyyah fī iḥyāʾ al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbiyyah, about how medicine and medical knowledge had been nearly entirely effaced.

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This was the first book I read to understand and learn about the God's existence. This book helped me tremendously in debates in my college. It made my belief in Allah and Islam firmed. @HATzortzis

Matt Drake

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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the argument against atheism from an Islamic and logical perspective. Brilliant stuff by brother and revert @HATzortzis

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In this essay I tried to argue that secular modern politics are not the only political rationality and contrary to the self-congratulating narrative of liberal politics that it has overcome religion, I argued that liberal political logic is

What is Political Theology?

AUTHOR: Murtaza Dawar (@avempace__) Abstract: My argument in this essay is to challenge the notion of self-congratulating narrative of Liberal democracies practices that they have overcome theolog…

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@nasafism Imam Ghazali said: "Those who don't understand Logic can't trust his own Imam" now I understand why medieval scholars emphasized so much on rational disciplines

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Exegetical Tradition of Isaghuji Athir al-Din Abhari (d. 1265) was one the most important scholar in the post-classical period of Islam. He written influential books on logic, philosophy, theology, cosmology and astronomy. He studied under the great scholars of Islam like: 🧵

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Once he was asked about his family to which he replied; I’ve no other family in this world. so my unit and fellow soldiers in Pakistan army are my family members.

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this book is The Impossible State 2.0 I started this book at the perfect time. This book is eye opening, literally a need of time. can't put it down Inshallah I'll write a review of this book. @SheraliTareen

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The Modernist/Liberal Muslims wants to have Islamic tradition to 'remade in the image of Protestant Christianity. "

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I'll add without understanding the warfare, military technology and international economy of the world and Europe and Muslim world in particular nobody can understand it properly critique modernity. And it is bcs of this shortsightedness that they don't actually

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The BBC admitting that the Temple Church (home of the Templars since 1185AD) is London’s first bank. Modern banking was invented by the Templars. Without understanding this history, nothing about modernity will make sense.

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The core of Goldziher argument was this: If a Hadith serves a group then that Hadith is forged. If a Hadith scholar is a functionary of state, then the Hadiths he narrates are forged Goldziher's vision of Hadith tradition as inherently manipulative and unreliable leads him to

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|🧵History of sugar production and freedom in the new world | Caribbean sugar plantations are a key site for studying the simultaneous development of racial slavery, indigenous dispossession, environmental destruction and modern liberal freedom 1/

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So basically it was Fawad chb who coined the word 'Youthia'

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laughing the Ottomans

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Ibn Sina, Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat Imam Ghazali Al-Iqtisād fī al-iʿtiqad,

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The field post-colonial studies are in great ingrained commitment with Liberal principles. Whenever they attempted to critique liberalism, rarely, and its association with colonialism, they only criticized the surface of it. In other words, they only criticized in terms of 1/3

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Guys tomorrow is Eid, be ready for the "Slaughtering Animal is wrong" brigade.

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idk ottoman history is so refreshing. whenever I read it I feel alive

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replaced philosophy, history and theology with Maths, Physics and chemistry.

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the only thing I like about Islamabad

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@murad_noor12 yes leave this country

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- Hallaq Shari'a (got 2nd copy) -The uninhibited Earth - Sea of the Caliphs - Interpretation of Jihad in South Asia. - Pakistan the formative period -A history of the judiciary in Pakistan. (pov when your exams are in less than 2 weeks and you are busy in shopping)

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It will take two or three decades to take-down Hallaq intellectually. The current critics of his work are nothing more than just an exercise of a few thousand words I find nothing but political lamenting that Hallaq has left no place for reconciling.

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Book recommendation For much of the 20th century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the 17th century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the 17th century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, 1/3

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There are two Islamic scholars in our contemporary time that I respect from my heart, that's Shaykh @RealHasanSpiker and Ustadh @ShamsTameez May Allah give me the opportunity to study with them and May Allah bless them. Ameen ❤️

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twt: GWOT. It has been argued that had a political government been controlled in Pakistan at the time of 9/11, Pakistan’s fate would have been much different, much better even if the decision had been taken the same. [Thread]

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this is one the best books in the history of philosophy. from the formative period to post Razian tradition it includes all major philosophers and their philosophical work from andalusia to the subcontinent

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@MohamadMurtaza_

7 months

Restating Orientalism is a magnum. this was needed bcs understanding the impossible state is incomplete without restating Orienatlism.

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

1 year

"...the study of English literature became an effective strategy of colonial control, facilitating British rule via education of a generation of Indians who, as Macaulay put it, were "Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, words & intellect."

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

2 years

Without thinking twice, he joined the army as an orphan. When he joined the army, he wrote ‘8 Sindh’ in the ‘Next of Kin’ column. It was the name of the unit he was affiliated with them. He didn’t have anyone left in this world except the army

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

6 months

Going to start Shaykh @RealHasanSpiker course tonight, reading Things as they are alongside.

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

2 years

Book recommendation: "Western man is always inclined to regard his culture and civilisation as man's cultural vanguard; and his own experience and consciousness as those representative of the most ‘evolved’ of the species. so that we are all in the process of lagging

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

1 year

I believe, reinterpretation of Shari'a by "it's own tools", the established methodology, is not a problem. Sharia has always changed with new themes and settings. But to "reform" it with "liberal tool" and relegating it to secondary status is the problem,

Mustafa Akyol

@AkyolinEnglish

1 year

Scholar of Islamic law Wael Hallaq has become an oft-quoted reference among strictly traditionalist Muslims, who reject any reform, any "liberalism." I wonder if they are aware of his 1997 comments on how "liberalists" in Islamic thought are coherent and "Islamically committed."

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murtaza dawar

@MohamadMurtaza_

3 months

Islam and secularism

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