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Cited in 3 segments across 3 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:harun-al-rashid
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestDo Muslims whitewash their own historical heroes?
Yes, every community whitewashes its heroes, because history records what its writers deem accomplishments; a fairer test is what a figure's adversaries said, as with Salah al-Din or Jewish sources on Umar.
machine3 min 49 s39:43on YouTube
20 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Were there Muslim scholars and caliphs in history known to be homosexual?
Mufti Abu Layth reports, without endorsing their views, that several celebrated Abbasid-era figures were known for homosexuality, including a chief judge of Basra who argued for it from the Quran, the caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, and Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri. He cites al-Dhahabi and the poetry of the period as his sources.
machine10 min 31 s7:56on YouTube
9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam
Why did Muslims become hostile to reason?
Mufti Abu Layth traces Muslim hostility to reason to the centuries-long sectarian conflict with the Mu'tazila, in which the mainstream answered the Mu'tazila's use of reason by disparaging reason itself and defending absurd narrations.
machine6 min 35 s49:33on YouTube