# Opening: welcoming Dr Khalil Andani to MindTrap

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/1/
- Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (0:54–3:01)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznXIYp0B5s&t=54s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth opens the stream and introduces his guest, Dr Khalil Andani, a scholar of Islamic theology and history.

## Longer summary

After opening music Mufti Abu Layth welcomes viewers to another MindTrap session and brings up his guest's picture; the guest jokes about whether this is a podcast or a dating show and mentions the July 4th holiday weekend. Mufti introduces Dr Khalil Andani as a professor from Canada now teaching in the United States, whose expertise is Islamic theology, Islamic studies, history and the development of the different denominations within Islam.

## Sources and names cited

- Dr Khalil Andani (guest)

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:54–3:01)

[0:54] [music] Welcome back to Minecraft with Mufti people another awesome incredible

[1:32] uh session awaiting us with our esteemed guest tonight. I'm going to bring up the profile picture. Oh, I'm uh very honored to be here.

[2:08] Is is this a podcast or like a dating show cuz you sort of introduced me uh I am good. I'm good. Uh you know, just enjoying uh July 4th, right? Or no, July 3rd. July 4th is tomorrow.

[2:30] But the holiday is today so. Nice. So. Those of you that are not familiar uh with Professor Khaleel uh Professor from Canada but currently teaching as a professor in the United States. His background and expertise is in Islamic theology, Islamic studies, history, the diverse kind of denominational kind of developments throughout Islam as well.

[3:00] Professor, in your words, tell us a bit about your journey uh to this whole this this wealth of uh of knowledge. Sure. So, uh as you said, I'm from Canada uh you know, born and raised. And uh I would say uh when I was in high school and that's about 20 years ago now uh I became really interested in in uh learning more about Islam and religion but from a more historical academic point of view uh like many Muslims, you know, I was raised with uh you know, probably the the more sort

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment xznXIYp0B5s/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/1/

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