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the plague (the Black Death) [?]

Cited in 2 segments across 2 recordings · 2015 to 2021 · event/event:black-death

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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Without colonialism and the Mongols, would the Muslim world have had its own enlightenment? Yes: he thinks Muslims left to themselves would have pioneered the enlightenment, but Europe's head start in industrialisation, used to subdue the Muslim world, provoked a reactionary rejection instead. Question from live chatposition checkedthe Reconquistathe Mongol invasionsthe Black DeathEuropean colonisation of the Muslim world machine3 min 43 s25:06on YouTube
3 Mar 2015video Do Maliki scholars accept good bid'ah? Both views exist: the early Maliki school rejected good bid'ah for centuries, but from around the 600s to 700s Hijri most Malikis accepted such practices while the books still list them as makruh. Lessonposition checkedbid'ah (innovation in religion)makruhthe plague (the Black Death) [?]the Almoravids (al-Murabitun) machine6 min 24 s23:47on YouTube