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Cited in 7 segments across 6 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:aristotle

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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Who was Ibn Rushd (Averroes)? Mufti Abu Layth presents Ibn Rushd as a Maliki judge, physician and the great commentator on Aristotle, honoured in Europe but exiled and neglected by Muslims. Lessonposition checkedIbn Rushd (Averroes)Ibn Rushd al-JaddAristotleIbn Tufayl [?] machine12 min 46 s1:56:13on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth How did Ibn Rushd answer al-Ghazali's attack on the philosophers? Mufti Abu Layth explains that Ibn Rushd answered al-Ghazali by showing that what he refuted was mostly neoplatonism, not Aristotle. Lessonposition checkedal-GhazaliIbn Rushd (Averroes)Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers)Tahafut al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) machine3 min 52 s2:16:37on YouTube
17 Oct 2020video Did the Sufi saints have psychedelic experiences without knowing it? Many of Islam's great mystics, such as Junayd, al-Hallaj and Ibn Arabi, most likely had psychedelic experiences without knowing it, as initiates at Eleusis and communities eating ergotised grain did. Lessonposition checkedJunayd al-BaghdadiMansur al-Hallaj [?]Ibn ArabiJoe Rogan machine4 min 15 s7:26on YouTube
28 Apr 2020From the Mind of a Mufti Why did Islam not abolish slavery outright? Islam did not abolish slavery outright because the collective consciousness of the age could not yet see it as wrong, but it encouraged emancipation as a route to that change. Slavery was always wrong, and Mufti Abu Layth says Jonathan Brown's three axioms rest on a shallow analysis. Lessonposition checkedJonathan BrownEmile DurkheimAristotlecollective consciousness machine9 min 23 s11:48on YouTube
21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Nawawi voiced a sentiment of his age, shared by many medieval Muslims and by the Greeks, in which attraction to adolescent boys was assumed; reporting this is not mockery. A Saudi critic's reply that many women are ugly, he says, proves the point. Lessonposition checkedal-NawawiSocratesPlatoAristotle machine3 min 55 s16:59on YouTube
4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Ethics evolve: slavery, human agency and the genetic fallacy Mufti Abu Layth argues that if ethics do not develop over time and only seventh-century ethics count, one would have to say slavery is fine, since the Quran acknowledged its ubiquity without abolishing it at the time, which he calls ridiculous. He says people hold liberal attitudes without having read Locke or Rousseau, being capable agents, not automatons. By the lecture's logic, he says, everything in Islam first championed by others would belong to them, as Socrates and Plato spoke of God and the soul first, which he calls an infantilising theory. He gives his own opposition to capital punishment, shared by most people in Europe, as an example of a view held without allegiance to Rousseau, Locke, Bentham or Bertrand Russell. Discussionposition checkedMohammed HijabJohn LockeJean-Jacques RousseauSocrates machine5 min 06 s24:46on YouTube
10 Nov 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Did Adam come from Neanderthals? No: Neanderthals were cousins of Homo sapiens, not ancestors. He believes Adam was the father of the cognitive revolution about 70,000 years ago. Question source not recordedposition checkedAbd al-Sabur Shahin [?]AdamThe Knowledge Illusion (called 'the illusion of knowledge') [?]Aristotle machine7 min 10 s0:01on YouTube