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Cited in 6 segments across 4 recordings · 2017 to 2020 · org/org:harvard-university

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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Why did a medical doctor choose to study religion at Harvard? The guest describes training as a physician and then turning to Arabic and Islamic studies at Berkeley and Harvard, where he is now a PhD candidate in the study of religion, despite his family's initial unease. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)Harvard UniversityJoe Rogan machine3 min 33 s0:04on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is it better to study Islam at a madrasa or at a Western university? The guest says he chose the critical academic study of Islam over al-Azhar, considering it superior, though he took two years of al-Azhar's online programme and recommends combining traditional and academic study. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)al-AzharHarvard University machine3 min 07 s3:37on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth How should the stories in the Quran be read? The guest describes his dissertation on jihad in the Quran and his project translating Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah's suppressed study of the Quran's narrative art, which he says is right. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallahal-Fann al-Qasasi fi al-Quran al-Karim [?] (Khalafallah)jihad machine3 min 59 s59:44on YouTube
3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Who is Dr Khalil Andani and how did he come to study Islam academically? The guest describes leaving a career in accountancy to study Islamic studies at Harvard, where he finished a PhD and now teaches religion at a US college. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Khalil Andani (guest)Harvard University machine3 min 47 s3:01on YouTube
4 May 2019On Current Events Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years? No: women prayed in mosques from the Prophet's time on and classical scholars held many such views, so the '1,400 years' claim fails; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Haqiqatjou's scholarly training. DiscussionDaniel HaqiqatjouUmar ibn al-KhattabAli ibn Abi TalibImam Malik machine6 min 22 s31:44on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions If someone got better after ruqya or an exorcism, does that prove it worked? Not necessarily: the placebo and nocebo effects produce real relief and real symptoms, as Kaptchuk's trial with cornstarch pills and retractable needles showed. Some patients would also have recovered anyway and are counted as cures. Lessonposition checkedTed KaptchukHarvard Universityruqya (reading Quran over the afflicted) machine3 min 56 s1:31:20on YouTube