Video and Audio

Islamic Studies Videos

Ibn Taymiyya and Benefit (maslaha): 1) Religious Practices, 2) The Aims of the Law, 3) The Caliphate and the Law, 4) Violence and Patience, 5) Wise Purpose in God's Acts

 ابن تيمية والمصلحة:  ١) العبادات    ٢) مقاصدالشريعة    ٣) الخلافة والشريعة    ٤) العنف والصبر   ٥) الحكمة في أفعال الله

Why Study Ibn Taymiyya? English  With Arabic subtitles: full length  abridged version      

Why Study Islamic Studies?   What is Fitra in Islam?  

With Musharraf Hussain, Basic Beliefs of Islam: Introduction, God, Angels, Books, Prophets, Last Day 1, Last Day 2, Predestination  

With Shujahat Aslam:  Islam: Final Things,   Ramadan,    Eid-ul-Fitr,    Eid-ul-Adha,    The Hajj

Lectures/Presentations/Talks

Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Ethics (Blogging Theology, published 6 February 2024). Talk on my 2019 article "Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Utilitarianism."  

Ibn Taymiyya (AMI Library, published July 2023). Talk on my book Ibn Taymiyya (London: Oneworld, 2019).

Two Kinds of Divine Transcendence (Yale Law School, 9 March 2023). Based on my 2022 article, "God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended" (link to article). 

Ibn Taymiyya (New Books Network, published 9 November 2020). Podcast interview by Elliot Bazzano on my book Ibn Taymiyya (London: Oneworld, 2019).

Ibn Taymiyyah's Perpetual Optimism (Academic Access, 9 July 2020).

Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's Religious Utilitarianism (Islamic Circles, 16 June 2020).

Ibn Taymiyya and His Theology (Karima Foundation, 21 May 2020. Discussion around the first half of Chapter 7 in my Ibn Taymiyya (London: Oneworld, 2019)).

Ibn Taymiyya and Sufism Revisited (The Markfield Institute of Higher Education, 30 April 2019)

Ibn Taymiyya’s Impact on Early 14th-Century Mamlūk Ashʿarism. (Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, American University of Beirut, 13 May 2017) 

Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam? A Critique of Its Hermeneutical Framework (01:10 to 20:36; 4 May 2017, Queen Mary University, London).

Universal Salvation and Consensus in Medieval Islam (2014, on Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya).

God's relation to space and body in the theology of Ibn Taymiyya (May 2014, The research presented in this lecture was made possible by a grant from the Leverhulme Foundation.)

Christian-Muslim Relations in the Arab Middle East: The Long View of History (October 2013)

God's wise purpose in everlasting chastisement: Ibn al-Wazir's critique of Ibn Taymiyya on the duration of hellfire (April 2012)

A Vision for Teaching Islamic Studies in the University (January 2012, University of Leeds, presentation starts at the 15:00 minute mark; sound quality prior to the lecture is often poor, but fine for the lecture itself).  Download lecture text here.

Interviews

"A Discussion on Ibn Taymiyyah," Circle of Insight w/ Dr. Carlos-Foreign Affairs, 8 November 2016.

Other Islamic Studies videos produced by the University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies

With Holger Zellentin: The Qur'an's Legal Tradition in Historical Context   Qur'anic Studies Today

With Ali-reza Bhojani: Why Study Sharia and Islamic Law   Why Do Muslims Believe in Moral Rationalism   Why Study Moral Rationalism in Islamic Law

With Harith Bin Ramli: Why Study the Sunni and the Shi'a   Why Study Sufism   The Prophet's Birthday