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Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi

Cited in 3 segments across 3 recordings · 2017 to 2021 · person/person:salah-al-din-al-ayyubi

Citing segments

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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. Question from live chatposition checkedCharles Martelthe Mongol destruction of Baghdad (1258)CharlemagneHarun al-Rashid machine3 min 49 s39:43on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why did Ibn Rushd fall from favour with the caliph? Mufti Abu Layth relates two accounts of Ibn Rushd's fall, a remark on a storm and an insult to the caliph, and finds the first believable though unproven. Lessonposition checkedIbn Rushd (Averroes)Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur [?]Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi machine7 min 38 s2:08:59on YouTube
9 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Why is the call to restore the khilafah dangerous for young Muslims? Mufti Abu Layth says the nostalgic 'Bollywood version' of Islamic history, in which a perfect khilafah existed until 1924, is a fantasy, since the khilafah rashidah never went beyond Ali. Guilt-tripping young Muslims with it and with Dar al-Harb rhetoric breeds the extremist narrative and needs tackling. Discussionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)khilafahal-Khulafa al-Rashidun (the rightly guided caliphs)Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi machine3 min 38 s5:11on YouTube