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Cited in 11 segments across 8 recordings · 2019 to 2021 · person/person:plato

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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Could the hadith tradition evolve like a living organism? As food for thought, he suggests that the hadith system, like other belief systems, behaves like an evolving organism that drives people to standardise and preserve it. Lessonposition checkedDavid Sloan WilsonDarwin's CathedralRichard DawkinsPlato machine10 min 28 s2:12:03on YouTube
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
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What did Ibn Rushd say about women's abilities? Mufti Abu Layth highlights Ibn Rushd's argument, 900 years ago, that women equal men in ability and that confining them to the home impoverished his cities. LessonIbn Rushd (Averroes)PlatoPlato's Republic machine6 min 55 s2:20:29on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why can't there be any prophets after Muhammad? Mufti Abu Layth says no new prophet or world religion will come after Muhammad; the statement about his son Ibrahim, if true, was hyperbole. Question from live chatposition checkedIbrahim, the son of the Prophetreport: if ibrahim had lived he would have been a prophetKarl Popper (as named on air)the Buddha machine6 min 09 s1:06:52on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Could Socrates or the Buddha have been prophets? Mufti Abu Layth believes figures such as the Buddha, Socrates and Zarathustra could have been prophets, though we cannot know since Islam does not mention them. Question from live chatposition checkedSocratesPlatothe BuddhaConfucius machine1 min 16 s1:50:22on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What does rightly guided caliph mean, and did Muawiya see Ali as one? The term rashidun came later; he thinks Muawiya saw Ali as more pious but himself as the better ruler, and that piety and governing skill rarely coincide. Question from live chatposition checkedal-Khulafa al-Rashidun (the rightly guided caliphs)Mu'awiya ibn Abi SufyanAli ibn Abi TalibUmar ibn al-Khattab machine8 min 04 s1:57:34on 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
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are psychedelics like DMT haram in Islam? Mufti Abu Layth does not consider psychedelics such as DMT haram or intoxicants, and advocates them as entheogens for spiritual discovery rather than recreation. Question from live chatposition checkedDMTentheogenayahuascaPlato machine9 min 54 s30:58on 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