Islamic Studies Videos
With Musharraf Hussain, Exploring the Qur'an: 1) Text and Transmission, 2) Interpretation, 3) Thematic outlines, 4) Themes for today, 5) Daily life, 6) Interfaith relations
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
The thought system of Ibn Taymiyya, excommunication, materialism, evil, divinity
(النظام الفكري لابن تيمية | التكفير | المادة | الشر | الإله). English with Arabic subtitles. Interview with Hadi Mohd Al Lawati, published, 23 December 2024.
Videos on Ibn Taymiyya dubbed in Turkish by Dini Cevaplar (Religious Answers).
Allah merhametliyse sınırlı bir ömürde yapılanlara sınırsız ceza verir mi? (If God is merciful, would he inflict unlimited punishment for evil done in a limited lifespan?), 6 November 2024.
İbn Teymiyye tasavvuf düşmanı mıydı? (Was Ibn Taymiyya an enemy of Sufism?), 10 November 2024.
İbn Teymiyye’nin teodisesi kötülük problemini çözmek için ne sunar? (What solution does Ibn Taymiyyah’s theodicy provide for the problem of evil?), 18 November 2024.
İbn Teymiyye’ye göre evrenin bir başlangıcı var mıydı? (According to Ibn Taymiyyah, did the universe have a beginning?), 22 November 2024.
İbn Teymiyye mücessime miydi? (Was Ibn Taymiyya a corporealist?), 26 November 2024.
On Ibn Taymiyya with Jon Hoover (with Arabic subtitles). Interview with Aljazeera journalist Abdulqudos Alhashmy, published 8 September 2024.
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